The Library win bronze at the University Green Impact Awards

Even though we have some sites that are quite old (one of which is a listed building) we are trying to be a greener library.

Our Library Green Impact team have worked hard to make improvements including:

• encouraging staff and students to use double-sided printing
• ensuring recycling bins are present in all staff and student areas
• communicating with staff via email/bulletins rather than printed material
• encouraging staff to turn off lights, portable heaters, fans, PC equipment when not in use
• introduction of webinars and teleconference facility to reduce staff travel

Our Green impact team at the awards ceremony

Additional study space

From Tuesday 27 May to Friday 13 June, the Library is providing additional study space (weekdays only) in the following locations:

Hicks Building (09:00 – 21:00)
Room F28
Room F41
LT 4 (D Floor)
LT11 (H Floor)

Dainton Building (09:00 – 18:00)
Room 12c (Ground floor)
Room 12h (Ground floor)

 

Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014-15

The University of Sheffield has been voted number 1 overall in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014-15. Thanks to all our students who voted the University Library number 3 of the 111 institutions included in the survey. We appreciate this feedback and will continue to invest in spaces, services, and collections to give our students one of the best learning experiences in the UK!

Further investment in our ebook collection

As we are committed to enriching our eresource collection for staff and students, we are spending a further £40,000 on ebooks.

For the next 12 months, we will have full-text access to 'Cambridge Books Online Evidence-based Monographs' collection.  This includes over 17,000 ebooks spanning all subjects on the Cambridge platform.

We will continually monitor usage, and at the end of the 12 months, we will obtain perpetual access to the ebooks that you have decided are the most relevant.

 

To access these and other ebooks, please go to StarPlus; sign in, and search for your chosen field.

Alternatively you can go to the Cambridge platform

 

 

 

 

 

 

New online resources

Times Digital Archive, 1785 – 2008

The Times Digital Archive is an online full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, detailing every complete page.
For registered staff and students, please go to http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/times or search StarPlus.

State Papers Online, 1509 – 1714 
State Papers Online is a searchable archive of 16th and 17th century State Papers. The University of Sheffield has access to the following collections:

• Part I - The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
• Part III - The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic

For registered staff and students, please go to http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/spo or search StarPlus

  

IC in The Diamond

We are delighted to report that the building previously known as the new engineering building has been formally named as 'The Diamond'.  What's even better is that in addition to labs and lecture theatres, The Diamond will offer state of the art 24-hour learning spaces and facilities to all students of all departments.  From September 2015 The University Library and CiCS will deliver services and support students to truly bring the IC experience to The Diamond.