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Enquiries
Popular enquiries: Kelvin Compasses
Archive Services regularly receives enquiries for information about ships’ compasses made by the firms of James White, Kelvin & James White Ltd and Kelvin Bottomley and Baird. These enquiries are generally from people who have acquired a compass as an antique, or from divers who have located one on a shipwreck. They want to know … Continue reading
Library Facts – did you know that in 2010..
You (staff, students and visitors) - Visited the library a total of 1.562 million times Completed 2.554 million database searches Downloaded 2.443 million full-text articles from our e-journal collection Photocopied 914, 603 pages in the library Borrowed 850,528 items from the library Requested 725,759 sections or chapters from our e-book collection Printed 3.608 million sheets from computers … Continue reading
Please take your belongings with you when you leave the library!
If you’ve been in the library this week, you’ll know that the place is bustling - and with revision and exam times around the corner it’ll get even busier. We’ve already had a number of people commenting on the difficulty of finding a place to study because others are leaving their belongings at desks and computers for long periods … Continue reading
Hastie Steering Gear
Here at Archive Services we hold a collection of records for John Hastie & Co. Ltd, steering gear manufacturers, on behalf of the National Archives of Scotland (collection ref. GD444). We therefore receive enquiries from people who have acquired part of a ship’s steering gear (usually the indicator plate, which includes the name of the … Continue reading
Adam Smith Library closing at 4pm, Tue 7th Dec.
The Adam Smith Library will close at 4pm today, Tuesday 7th December, due to adverse weather conditions. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
The Student IT Helpdesk will reopen on Level 3 on Friday 10th September
The rest of Level 3 will remain closed until next week. The Helpdesk will only be accessible from the central staircase and lifts – staff at the Welcome Desk on Level 2 will be happy to direct you.
E-resource access problems (now fixed)
This problem has now been resolved (20/07/10) We are currently experiencing some access problems with our E-resources. You may receive the following error message when trying to access some of our e-journals, e-books and online databases from off-campus. Inter-institutional access failure. Please contact your system administrator for assistance. If you receive this message, please try … Continue reading
Audio-Visual Room Closed Saturday 12th – Sunday 13th June
The Audio-Visual Room on Level 2 of the Main Library will be closed for renovations on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of June. If you have any comments or suggestions please do let us know.
DOE services will be unavailable from May 23 8pm GMT to May 25 1PM GMT
Both The Dictionary of Old English Online and Dictionary of Old English (Old English Corpus) have scheduled downtime from 8pm GMT on Sunday, 23rd of May until 1pm GMT on Tuesday, 25 of May. If you have any questions or comments please let us know.
Alexander Street Press – Scheduled Downtime 8th May 12.00 pm – 10 pm
Alexander Street Press are performing scheduled maintenance on all Alexander Street Press collections on Saturday, May 8, 2010. Please note that access to all collections, and in particular music collections, could be affected for up to 20 minutes at a time between 8 AM and 6 PM EDT / UTC-4. If you have any further … Continue reading
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