Monthly Archives: October 2010

RefWorks and Endnote training at OUCS – learn how to manage your bibliography

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Reposting this from the History Faculty Library blog:

OUCS is offering courses in the use of two software packages (RefWorks and Endnote).  These are tools for storing and managing references and creating bibliographies. When you write your own papers and texts using Microsoft Word, you can cite items from your library of references. Learn how to do this in a course:

  • RefWorks – Friday 29 October, 9:15-12:15 [book a place].
  • Endnote – Monday 8 November, 9:15-12:15 or Wednesday 1 December, 9:15-12:15 [book a place].

Don’t know whether to use RefWorks or Endnote? See this comparison table to help you decide. Also, get advice from other students and tutors.

Things to note for the new term

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Welcome back to all our returning readers, and welcome to any new ones!  A couple of things to note as term gets underway:

1. Opening hours: From today we are open Monday-Friday 9am-7pm. No weekend opening until Trinity Term I’m afraid.

2. New printing/photocopying system: Over the summer, the Bodleian Libraries introduced a new system for printing, photocopying and scanning.  Payment is now handled via an online system, which is then linked to your University card.
Read more about how the new system works
How-to guides

3. Tour for new graduates: I will be running a tour of the VHL for new graduates in US Studies on Tuesday 12th October at 3pm.

The AKS collection: new books for 2010

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Each year, the American Association of Rhodes Scholars pays for a batch of new books to be purchased to add to the Adeloytte-Kieffer-Smith (AKS) collection at the VHL.   The AKS books are intended to have wider interest than the purely academic focus of most of our holdings, and the most recent year’s acquisitions are kept on the shelves just to your left as you enter the library. Older volumes are shelved as part of the main collection upstairs.  The 2010 additions to the collection are now available in the library, and can also be browsed on SOLO.