WRRO migration

The team at White Rose Research Online have informed us that the repository will be migrated to a new server on Thursday 7 February 2013. During the maintenance period, the repository will be unavailable for deposit of full text. Downloading from the archive could also be disrupted at certain times during the work. The team apologise for any inconvenience, but if you have any questions, you can contact them directly at: eprints@whiterose.ac.uk.

Coming soon....Our New Exhibition

Western Bank Library Exhibition Gallery

7 February - 6 May 2013
Sheffield Entertained

Discover the entertainment heritage of the City of Sheffield. Prepare to be amazed by the delights that are in store......

Curated by Professor Vanessa Toulmin and Amanda Bernstein.
Audio Visual Curator Andrew Moore.
Material kindly loaned from Museums Sheffield and the Local Studies Collection.

U.S. Department of Defense sponsored research available via Primo Central

Publicly available scientific and technical reports of research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense are now discoverable via Primo Central searches in StarPlus.  Records indexed in Primo Central include both citations and full-text, downloadable documents from the mid-1900s to the present. See Defense Technical Information Center for more information.

Cranfield University research now indexed in Primo Central

Records from Cranfield University's digital research repository - Cranfield Collection of E-Research or CERES - are now included in your Primo Central searches via StarPlus. The repository offers journal articles, theses and dissertations, book chapters, working papers and technical reports on a wide range of subjects including engineering, library science, management, health and applied sciences. For more information see Cranfield Collection of E-Research.

Digital Special Collections

The Library Special Collections Department holds major collections of rare and specialised academic archives covering a range of subject areas. We have recently started to digitise some of these visually stunning materials to make them available more widely. Each week more documents are added to the Digital Special Collections resource along with detailed metadata to enhance searching and browsing. Visit the resource at: http://cdm15847.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15847coll5. It is currently at the pilot stage and we will be shortly adding help screens and improving the search and browse facilities.

Examinations

During the examination period, Western Bank Library is open longer hours in the mornings, evenings and at weekends. St George's and the Health Sciences Library are open longer at weekends. See details for all our sites at:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/libsites/opengen.

Exam timetables and related information can be found at:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/ssid/exams/timetables

Exam etiquette - be considerate to your fellow students by keeping noise levels down in Library study areas during the exams.

Good luck everyone!!

Exam study at Western Bank Library

By popular demand, the Group Study Rooms on Level 4 at Western Bank Library will be available for individual, silent study during the examination period, 6- 31 January 2013.
Please note, this does mean that they will not be available for group bookings. They will revert back to group study rooms when the examinations are over.
For extended exam opening  times for Western Bank Library, please see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/libsites/mlopen