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StarPlus user experience questionnaire

The Library team responsible for StarPlus are always trying to improve users’ searching experience. The aim of the questionnaire is to get valuable feedback from registered staff and students to help us do better in future.

StarPlus user experience questionnaire

When you have completed all the questions you will be entered into a draw for a £25 Amazon voucher.

Please note: the deadline to complete the questionnaire is 17 April

Welcome to our new University Librarian

We welcome our new Director of Library Services and University Librarian, Anne Horn.  Anne succeeds Martin Lewis, who has held the position since 2003.

Anne has travelled from Australia to join us, having been the University Librarian & Executive Director, Academic Support at Deakin University in Victoria.  She will be our ninth Librarian and the first woman to hold this position.

Speaking of her new role, Anne has said that “I am delighted to be joining the University of Sheffield. Your aspirations and culture, and the Library’s reputation and talented team, have made the decision to move to the UK an easy one.”

Open Book Publishers

We've joined the Open Book Publishers' Library Membership Scheme. OBP publishes

peer-reviewed open access monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

As well as supporting the publication of open access research monographs, membership entitles our staff and students to full access to the digital editions and the opportunity to purchase print editions at a discounted price.

To connect to the OBP website use the link on  http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/ebook/openbook to be recognised as UoS members for the downloads and discounts.

There are also links to OBP from StarPlus (as part of the DOAB collection).

 

IC in The Diamond

Professor Mike Hounslow, Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield, was today joined by Sheffield Central MP Paul Blomfield on the roof of The Diamond building to perform the official topping out ceremony to mark progress on the £81 million development.

The University Library is  proud to be designing and providing services for The Diamond. With nearly 1,000 innovative study spaces we continue to invest in Sheffield student learning, building on our experiences with the world-leading Information Commons, which opened its doors in 2007. 

The unique nature of The Diamond will offer staff and students the opportunity to move between formal and informal learning situations in new and exciting ways.  As well as supporting an expanding digital collection there will also be a core print reference collection and a dynamic on-demand loanable collection

 

 



A 3D animated fly-through of The Diamond.

The Diamond topping out ceremony

The Library joins the Digital Preservation Coalition

We are delighted to be the latest member of the DPC.

‘This is an exciting time to be involved in Digital Preservation at the University of Sheffield.  We’re in the process of recruiting a new Digital Preservation Officer and are currently tendering for systems.  We’re writing a digital preservation policy, establishing a collections schedule and enhancing how we handle digital research outputs.  Joining the DPC adds momentum to this important development.  It raises our profile in digital preservation, lets us access know-how and gives assurance that we’re developing best practice.’

Tracey Clarke, Assistant Director for Academic Services.

‘It’s a great pleasure to welcome Sheffield University to the DPC.  I am pleased but not surprised at how much the DPC’s membership has grown in the last few years.  The benefits and opportunities which membership brings are increasingly aligned with the strategic imperative which so many institutions face in safeguarding and exploiting valuable digital resources.  As a full member, Tracey and colleagues will be able to shape the work of the DPC around their own needs and have significant influence on the direction of the Coalition in the future.

The DPC is a not for profit membership organisation with the mission of making our digital memory accessible tomorrow. We enable our members to deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services, helping them to derive enduring value from digital collections and raising awareness of the attendant strategic, cultural and technological challenges they face.  We achieve our aims through advocacy, workforce development, capacity-building and partnership.'
Laura Mitchell, Chair of the DPC and Deputy Keeper of the Records of Scotland.
The Digital Preservation Coalition