New ebooks trial…take a look!

The Library is currently trialling a new e-books package called ‘Dawsonera’.   Fifty full-text electronic books are available for you to read up until Tuesday May 7th.   Find out more and connect to the Dawsonera website by visiting:  http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/news/dawsonera.html

Titles available in the trial include:

•  ’Corrosion of steel in concrete: understanding, investigation and repair’ (2nd ed) by  J.P. Broomfield
•  ’Design Analysis in Rock Mechanics’ by W.G. Pariseau
•  ’Expansive soils: recent advances in characterization and treatment ’  ed. by A.A. Al-Rawas and  M.F.A. Goosen
• ‘Innovations in hospice architecture’ by S.F. Verderber and D.B.Refuerzo

To view these and see what else is on offer, just click on ‘Ebook catalogue’ on the Dawsonera website.   You can also find out what other titles could be added in the future – and let us know if you’re interested in any of them - by clicking on “Advanced search”, and selecting “include not owned”.   Whether or not you’ve you’ve used e-books before, have a look and let us know what you think!

If this has whetted your appetite, you’ll be pleased to hear that the Library subscribes to many other e-books.  You can find them by searching the Library Catalogue;  from the A-Z listing at http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/info/e-books.html; or by following the ‘Resources for your subject’ link on the Library website, clicking on your department, and then on the link ‘Ebooks’.  

Are we teaching you the right stuff?

Library staff are carrying out a survey of our undergraduate students, to find out more about your Information Literacy skills, the type of instruction that would help you in your coursework and how we can best provide it.

To make the process of getting your views as painless as possible, the survey has been set up online, and can be found at this web address: www.survey.bath.ac.uk/library

The survey shouldn’t take you too long and if you want to be entered into a prize draw for a £50 book voucher just include your BUCS username at the end.

As always your feedback is very useful to us as we try to plan the ways in which we can help all members of the university.

Thanks.