New Perth College Website

You will have noticed that since the beginning of term the Perth College Website has been relaunched. There is a link to the Library section on the front page and the Online Resources are currently available as a downloadable .pdf file that you can save on your computer at home for quick access or access online at any time for the most up to date links. Accessing the resources should be quicker and easier this year than last and the majority of resources just need you to enter your College username and password. Keep an eye on the Library section of the website as we will be developing it throughout the year...

New titles: Mountain Studies

New titles

Websites

UHI and Perth College library e resources are accessed via their respective websites ( www.uhi.ac.uk and www.perth.ac.uk ).

Both are currently undergoing major revamps and will be relaunched some time this week (beginning Mon 25th August). There may be some glitches as we survey the content and make sure that all information and links are accurate, so please bear with us!

In due course, these websites will offer an improved service for staff and students, to help you with your information and research needs.

Top Search Tips From UKeiG

UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group, is a professional body for users and developers of electronic information resources.
This is a good post with some quality tips for web searching..

Making The Most Of The Web

A useful piece from Seb Schmoller about making best use of the web and its resources.
I particularly like the points about collaboration, using social bookmarking (you lose so much less this way) and using your library, because it's not always on the web!

Summer borrowing

Although many students will be moving on to pastures new in the next few weeks, some of you may wish to come in and use the Library service over the summer break, in order to prepare for continued studies in August. If this is the case then please get in touch with your student advisor who can pass your name and student number on to us and we will set up summer borrowing on your behalf.

During the summer months the Library continues to open on holiday hours. These are listed below.

Mon - Fri : 9am - 4.45pm

New titles: Aircraft Engineering

Gas turbine pollutant emissions, by IMechE



Combustion instabilities in gas turbine engines, ed. Timothy C. Liewan



Aircraft landing gear, by Norman S. Currey



Composite materials for aircraft structures, ed. Alan Baker



Airport operations, by Norman Ashford



RDS-Student, by Daniel P. Raymer

New Titles: Aircraft and Aviation

Aviation Maintenance Management, Harry A Kinnison Ph.D



Airworthiness, by Filippo De Florio



Aircraft Communications and Navigation Systems, by M Tooley & D Wyatt



Aircraft Instruments & Integrated Systems, by EHJ Pallett

New Titles: Sociology

No Fear. Growing up in a risk averse society, by Tim Gill



The Ambiguity of Play, by Brian Sutton Smith



Centuries of Childhood, by Philippe Aries



The Ghetto Underclass, ed William Julius Wilson



Finding a voice: Asian women in Britain, by Amrit Wilson



Toxic Childhood: how the modern world is damaging our children and what we can do about it, by Sue Palmer

Microsoft Office

As you know Microsoft Office is available on all of the computers in the College, but did you know that you can use it at home, for free? All students have access to MyUHI, a service accessible through the UHI website by entering your student number and password . Once you have done this you have access to your personal College drive and can access Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003 from whichever computer you are using!

If you already have Office 2007 at home you will also be glad to hear that the College computers have new software on them which will allow you to open the documents you worked on at home, in the College.

Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online is currently being redesigned and will be re-launched as part of a bigger resource - Oxford Music Online. This will give you access to The Oxford dictionary of music and The Oxford companion to music in addition to the large amount of content on Grove currently. This changeover will happen in the next couple of months and you will be able to continue to access Grove through the Library website.

Journals Search

If you want to search across all the UHI resources (EBSCO, JSTOR, Science Direct etc) without logging in to each individual resource, you can now do this.
The CASE A-Z list allows you search and browse for particular journals and resources.
Once you've found what you're looking for, you can click on the link to get access. In some cases, you may need to login via the usual Athens route (i.e. follow the UHI Millenium Institute links from 'Alternative Login').
In other cases, you may need to take a note of the journal provider, and log in to the resource via the usual route.
A guide to logging in to Athens resources is available here.

The Learning Cafe

The Learning Cafe opened for business last week.


It's a comfotable, stylish, informal learning space where you can relax with a Costa coffee and bun, browse the journals and newspapers, use college computers, login to the college network with your own laptop, or just chill out and have a chat with your friends.

Why not pop in and have a look today?

Amazon Listmania!

Alan Scott (Creative Industries, Goodlyburn) has started using Amazon Listmania to list books he recommends for student use, and also highlighting those that are available in Perth College Library.
Which is a seriously good idea!
You can visit Alan's list spot on Amazon here.

Most of these books are available for 28 day loan, and you can renew books online yourself, via the library catalogue.

You're more than welcome to come in and browse the stock, and borrow what you need. Have a coffee in the learning cafe whilst you're at it!

Quick Links

Some quick links for students working on various projects across the college, where library staff have created a custom blog for information and resource links.

HND Administration & IT

Complementary & Beauty Therapy Business Plan

HND Business Project

Any problems with these blogs, links or access to the resources, contact library staff.

New Audio Books

The popularity of the recently improved DVD collection has resulted in many students and staff asking if the media collection could be further expanded to include audio books. The list below provides details of some of the titles now available.


Band of Brothers


The Amber Spyglass


The Subtle Knife


Northern Lights


Atonement


A Short History of Nearly Everything


A History of Modern Britain


Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone


The Other Boleyn Girl

New DVDs

United 93


The Jungle Book


The Insider


Letters from Iwo Jima


Munich


Il Postino


Fargo


Goodfellas


Jean De Florette


Manon Des Sources: Jean De Florette, part 2

New Fiction Titles

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan


Life After God by Douglas Coupland


If You Liked School, You'll Love Work by Irvine Welsh

New Fiction Titles

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov


The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand


Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand


Old Men In Love by Alasdair Gray