Missed your Library Matters Live?

Library Matters Live sessions have now finished for this year.  We hope those of you who attended found them a useful introduction to Library & Information Services (LIS). 

If you missed yours or you want a refresher, don't worry!  You can dowload the presentation slides and an audio tour for the Library from the Library Matters Live webpage.  There will also be staff members available to introduction you to LIS, demonstrate the Library SmartSearch and answer your questions in the Foyer of the Library from 11am to 2pm every day next week (8th - 12th October).  They will even have some left-over goodie bags, so you can get your free stuff from them!

And don't forget, you can always get help and support from the Help Desk on the ground floor of the Library.

Welcome to Aston University Library & Information Services, and good luck with your course!

Visit us in The Hub!

Every lunchtime, 1pm to 2pm, in Welcome Week and in the first week of term, one of your Information Specialists will be guests at The Hub.

Why not drop in to see us to ask any questions you have about the Library and Information Services?

We can provide you with more information about the Library Matters Live sessions for new students, show you the brand new Library SmartSearch and LibGuides, or help you carry out a preliminary literature search for your final year dissertation.

We'd love to see you!

LabVIEW now available

LabVIEW is system design software built specifically for tasks performed by engineers and scientists. This software enables users to create flexible and scalable test, control and embedded design applications.

LabVIEW software is now available for you to borrow from the Library Help Desk, for you to install on your own computer.   There is a version for windows (two DVDs) and one for the Mac (one DVD), which can be borrowed as one day loans (until 1pm the following working day).  If you are a part-time, placement or distance learning student, we can issue these for 7 days.

LIS now supports EndNote and EndNote Web!

EndNote, along with its web-based equivalent EndNote Web, is a reference management software package, which can be used to organise your references, create bibliographies, and format citations as you write documents.  The desktop software is available on all University computers.

Your Information Specialists have now received full training on this software and can provide ongoing support to all staff, research students and undergraduates.  If you have any questions about importing your references into EndNote, managing your references, connecting your desktop EndNote X5 to EndNote Web, or using your references when writing a document, contact your Information Specialist directly or via the Help Desk.

While we would expect most staff and research students to attend the excellent introductory one-day course at the Centre for Staff and Graduate Development, we are also hoping to provide further support for EndNote in the form of drop-in sessions or workshops and would like to find out what you would find most useful.  If you have any suggestions, please comment on this post or e-mail us.

Please note that if you have any problems with the installation of EndNote on your University computer, or you would like a copy of the desktop software for your own computer, please contact ISA.