February 1, 2010

In the summer of 2009 the University of Glasgow moved from the MyAthens to the GUID service.
Your GUID has replaced the Athens username and password for access to many e-journals, e-books and databases. If you go to the MyAthens home page, as shown above, it will no longer recognise either your Athens or your GUID log-in details; although you may still see an ATHENS link on some database, e-journal or e-book web pages, this will no longer work for you if you are a student or member of staff at the University of Glasgow.
A good way to find and access databases is via the Library web pages, you can search directly by title of a database or browse databases related to your subject.
To read more about this change go to the Spotlight on GUID Library web page. Students will already have a GUID & password Read more about GUID for students. Staff must register for a GUID associated password. Read more about GUID for staff.
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Posted by Heather Worlledge-Andrew
February 1, 2010

This months image of the Library was kindly supplied by Mat Kowalski and highlights the crisp lines and textures formed by the trees against the buildings. Mat is an MSci Software Engineering student in the Computing Science Department.
If you have an image of the Library with a Spring theme that we could use for March we’d like to hear from you via a comment on here.
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Uncategorized | Tagged: art gallery, building, door, exterior, external, frost, icon, image, library entrance, logo, mackintosh, mat kowalski, photo, photograp, snow, winter |
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Posted by Heather Worlledge-Andrew
January 28, 2010
Please note that there may be distruption to some Alexander Street Press collections on Saturday, January 30, 2010. Between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM EDT / GMT-5.
If you experience any problems after the times listed, please contact the Customer Support at support@alexanderstreet.com
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Library, Uncategorized | Tagged: collections, Enquiries, learning, Library, Library services, study, UGL, UofGLibrary |
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Posted by Louise Annan
January 22, 2010
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Library | Tagged: european union, free government info, government, law commission, maps, official publications, ordnance survey, scottish parliament, statistics, westminster |
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Posted by Kirsteen Valenti
January 22, 2010
For the past four months of my archive traineeship I have been part of the cataloguing team at GUAS which has taught me a range of skills and allowed me to work closely with two main collections. The first, was a new Glasgow University Archaeological Society accession, composed mostly of minutes, draft minutes, agendas, publications, lecture programmes. The second was a collection of records of the Chemistry Department. My task was to arrange and catalogue both collections according to recognised cataloguing standards such as ISAD(G) and EAD.
As part of my traineeship I am also based at the Glasgow NHS Archive at the Mitchell Library for two days a week, where I have a variety of responsibilities and have been working on many ongoing tasks. I greet new readers, help with their research and also accessing the catalogues and handling records. This is a great chance to work in another archive and gives me an opportunity to interact more with readers.
Through the co-operation of the head archivist I hope to have a small display area, exhibiting some of our most interesting and informative records from the NHS archive. I proposed the idea of an exhibition in order to raise the profile of the NHS archive and inform family historians visiting the city archives that our records are a valuable resource in their research.
At the beginning of December I started my document delivery placement which has taken me out of my comfort zone and will provide me with a whole new set of skills that I am very much looking forward to gaining.
Cheryl Brown
If you are interested in becoming an archivist and would like to find out what our current trainees are working on just now please see our website.
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Archive Services (GUAS), Reflections | Tagged: archive services, cataloguing, Graduate Trainee, GUAS, training |
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Posted by gtougher
January 20, 2010

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours from 1pm on Saturday, 23 January to 1am Sunday, 24 January. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
To read about the benefits that will be released following this shut down go to the Science Direct Releases page.
Briefly these will include:
- a better reading experience
- an extension of graphical abstracts for chemists
- an improved books search
- advanced and expert search being made available off campus
- more search refinements being released
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Posted by Louise Annan
January 5, 2010
Avid followers of the Special Collections book of the month series may be disappointed to notice that there is no posting for January 2010.

Instrument showing the motion of the moon from the first book of the month (August 1999)
We are currently hard at work creating a new website for Special Collections. This is giving us the opportunity to revise and update our current site, and will harmonise the look and feel of our pages so that they follow the same layout and structure as the main library website.
We are aiming for the new site to be launched in the Spring. In the meantime, we will not be adding any major new content to the current Special Collections website. We are therefore taking a break from producing books of the month!
Our book of the month feature has now run for over ten years and all the previous entries remain accessible on our book of the month archive page. Browsing through these is a great introduction to the wonderful resources of Special Collections. We would be interested to hear your views on whether or not you think we should continue this series once the new website is up and running.
Meanwhile, we will continue to use the library blog to highlight books of interest and provide information about what is going on in Special Collections – so watch this space.
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Posted by jgardham