New UK Data Service

The newly formed UK Data Service is now live. Funded by the ESRC, this national service consolidates and incorporates a number of established data services, including Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and units of the former ESRC Census Programme. The UK Data Service website provides a single point of access as well as online tools and support, including specialist census support. If you were previously registered with ESDS or the Census Programme, your registration should transfer to the new service, so there's no need to re-register. UK Data Service has also provided FAQs for former ESDS users to help you find your way around the new service.

Important information for final year students

Please remember to keep your library account up-to-date. All library material must be returned, and any outstanding fines paid, by the end of service hours on Saturday 8 June.

If you have any queries about your library account, please ask staff at any library site. Don’t forget, fines of over £1 can be paid online via MUSE.

• For further information about fines, please see Fines and charges
• For information about renewals, please see How to renew items

The Chatsworth Library Project

Dr Jack Rhoden from the School of History is managing the Chatsworth Library Project which entails researching and cataloguing a representative portion of their 30,000 rare books. Amanda Bernstein, our Rare Books Librarian is helping Jack to bring the Devonshire Collection catalogue up to current international standards.
The latest instalment of Jack's blog concentrates on the Hobbes's library at Chatsworth:

http://www.chatsworthblog.org/#!/2013/03/a-nasty-brutish-and-short-blog-entry-on.html

The Library has recently subscribed to several more JSTOR ejournal archive collections: Arts and Sciences V, VI, VIII, IX, X and XI; and the Life Sciences collection, which incorporates our existing Biological Sciences collection.Titles will be added to Find it @ Sheffield and to StarPlus in due course

Jack Rosenthal and Maureen Lipman

The Western Bank Library exhibition from June 2012 - Jack and Maureen: a creative partnership - has been transferred to the Manchester Jewish Museum in Manchester, and will run until 9^th June. It includes many items from the Jack Rosenthal and Maureen Lipman archives, both of which are held by the Special Collections Department in the University of Sheffield Library. Further details can be found at http://www.mjm.org.uk/exhibitions

Also in Manchester, and using one of the scripts from the Jack Rosenthal Drama Scripts Collection here at Sheffield, Gareth Kavanagh has put on a production of “The Best” at the Lass O’Gowrie pub. This is Jack Rosenthal’s previously unproduced play about the footballer George Best. In the past, Gareth has put on productions based on Jack Rosenthal’s early Coronation Street scripts, two of which were shown at the launch of the Jack and Maureen exhibition here last year. Further information can be found at http://www.thelass.co.uk/index.php and on the BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21741182

Changes in StarPlus

We are working in the background to improve our library systems. You can now place a reservation within StarPlus, from the 'Request' tab. However, to see the total number of copies available of a particular book, you need to click on the 'Details' tab and then the 'This item in classic Star' link on the right hand side. This is a temporary measure until we upgrade further in the next few months.