Secure Electronic Delivery of documents from the British Library

From Monday 29 October, we shall start to request documents from the British Library (BL) that are delivered electronically as FileOpen files.

Interlibrary requests for articles supplied electronically by the BL will now go directly to our customers. The electronic copy is sent to your email address as a web link.

For further information, please see http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/sed

Refurbishment of the Health Sciences Library

The redeveloped Health Sciences Library at The Royal Hallamshire Hospital (RHH) will open on 10am Monday 5 November.
Please note, all services at this site will cease at 5pm Tuesday 30 October and there will be some disruption to the availability of stock from Thursday 25 October. Please see http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/hsl/refurbfaqs for further details.

Learning and Research support

We are currently revising the Library web pages for Learning and Research support.  Work completed includes the following new sections:

•      Meet the Team gathers together relevant information about our liaison activities aimed at each Faculty.  Find the details for your Faculty Librarians, read their latest blogs and newsletter, and follow them on Twitter.
•    Information literacy provides guidance on the information skills required at different stages of the student journey from induction to the workplace. Find help on writing assignments, research skills or information skills required in the workplace.

We are presently at work revamping our Research Support pages. We welcome any feedback on these developments so let us know what you think.

Digimap Carto: the latest advice from EDINA

EDINA have reported that some Digimap Carto users have experienced difficulties caused by changes to popular web browsers, updates to Java installations, and using 64-bit versions of operating systems (mostly Windows 7). EDINA intend to replace Carto with another advanced mapping service and are currently working on developing this. The Digimap Help page on Carto has advice for workarounds if you are experiencing problems with Carto.

EDINA also advise that you try Roam if Carto fails to operate as expected. Digimap Roam offers the majority of functionality available in Carto and some extra functions. Roam can print at A3 and A4, portrait and landscape, add annotations and labels to your map and measure distances and areas.

Digimap and anti-virus software

EDINA have advised that anti-virus software seems to be causing problems with Digimap's mapping applications for some users. See the post on the EDINA Digimap Blog for further information and advice on what to do if you think this has happened to you.