The library will be open as normal on Bank Holiday Monday, 25th May – 9am-7pm. Bodleian stack deliveries will also continue as normal.

Over the next two weeks Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops:

Bodleian iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-20th centuries Tuesday 26th May (Week 5) 14.00-15.30   Newspapers are a valuable resource for researching, not only news but also many other aspects of society. In this session we will introduce key historical and contemporary sources of news and how to make best use of them.
Who is the session for? Students, researchers and anyone else who is interested.
Presenters: Isabel Holowaty, Angela Carritt
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road >Book online

Bodleian iSkills: Mendeley for reference management Tuesday 2nd June (Week 6) 9.30-12.15 – Mendeley is a reference management package that helps you build libraries of references and then add citations and bibliographies to word processed documents.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers, academics and undergraduates wishing to use reference management software.
Presenters: Oliver Bridle, Sophia Staves
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road >Book online

Bodleian iSkills:  Research impact – citation analysis tools   Wednesday 3rd June  (Week 6)  10.30-12 noon – An introduction to citation tracking and bibliometrics for calculating research impact. During the workshop we will introduce a range of ‘impact factor’ tools to find top journals and conferences, count citations and measure the impact of publications and researchers.  The workshops will cover the Journal Citation Reports, SCImago Journal Rank, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Essential Science Indicators, ORCID, h-index and more.
Who is this session for? Researchers, Academics, Research Support Staff and Research Postgraduates, especially in Sciences and Social Sciences.
Presenters:  Karine Barker, Juliet Ralph and Karen Langdon
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, Parks Road  >Book online

RefWorks for Humanities  Wednesday 3rd June  (Week 6)  14.00-17.00 – RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your citations/references, insert them into your work as footnotes or intext citations, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles. This introduction is open to all, but the section on importing references will focus on Humanities examples.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researcher
Presenters:  Bethan Jenkins, Helen Maththews, Angela Carritt
Venue:  IT Services, 13 Banbury Road  >Book online

Bodleian iSkills: E-books  Friday 5th June  (Week 6)  9.15-10.30 – The Bodleian Libraries has over 624,000 e-books, with titles in all subject areas, but do you feel confident in finding and using them?    This workshop will cover finding e-books and how to use and manipulate them.
Presenters:  Hilla Wait, Kat Steiner, Ian Chilvers
Venue:  IT Services, 13 Banbury Road >Book online

Bodleian iSkills: E-book Readers  Friday 5th June  (Week 6) 10.45-12.15 – Reading on E-Book Readers such as Kindle or Nook and using apps for iPad and Android devices is increasingly popular but how useful are these devices for academic work? This workshop will look at a range of devices and apps on the market and will cover key features to look out for when considering purchase. The workshop will also include an opportunity to try out a range of devices.
Presenters:  Hilla Wait, Kat Steiner, Ian Chilvers
Venue:  IT Services, 13 Banbury Road >Book online

What’s coming up in the iSkills Programme – See the full timetable and book your place  at http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/workshopsbydate

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills  or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

[Reposted with amendments from the SSL blog]

A scheduled power outage due to take place at the Bodleian Libraries’ building at Osney  this weekend will mean a small number of services will not be available from 12pm Friday 15th May until 12pm Monday 18th May.

SOLO will not be affected, although some resources that are accessible through SOLO may be offline.

Services that will be affected by the power outage include:

• PURL service (some links from SOLO out to other resources may fail)
• SunRays PCs in reading rooms will be offline
• Digitized books from the Oxford Google Books Project
• Maps and Music digitized card catalogues
• ORA
• Imaging Services
• Bodleian Libraries’ Web Archive
• Electronic Enlightenment
• A small number of Digital Bodleian blogs

Please note that new and updated University Cards from Friday 15 May onwards may not be active on SOLO, the Bodleian Wireless network and Reader workstation PCs until Monday 18 May.

At the same time, essential maintenance on the telephone exchange that serves the RAI means that our phones may not work on Saturday 16th May. Please email us instead!

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Please ask library staff for help if you need assistance.

Last month, to accompany a major conference at the Rothermere American Institute, we held an exhibition in the library of items from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections relating to gold rushes and gold mining throughout the world.

An online version of the exhibition has now been created on the RAI website at www.rai.ox.ac.uk/goldrush/exhibition. If you missed the exhibition, or want another chance to see images of the various items that were included, please take a look!

Thanks are due to the Art Gallery of Ballarat for permission to include some images digitised from their collections.

If you’re an Oxford student writing your thesis on an American topic in History or Politics, and are thinking about travelling to conduct primary source research in the United States, you might like to consider applying for a travel award from the Rothermere American Institute.

Full details of the awards and how to apply may be found on the RAI website. The deadline for submission of applications is 12 noon on Friday 12th June.

Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops:

RefWorks for your Laptop Wednesday 13th May (Week 3) 9.30-12.30 – RefWorks is an online tool which allows you to manage your references, insert them into your work, automatically generate bibliographies and easily switch between citation styles. At this introductory workshop you will set up and learn to use RefWorks on your own laptop. The session is open to all but the section on importing references will focus on Science/Social Science examples.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers, academics and undergraduates wishing to use reference management software.
Presenters: Nia Roberts,Gigi Horsfield and Angela Carritt
Venue: Jesus College Ship Street Centre (next to the News Cafe) > Book online

Bodleian iSkills: Getting information to come to you Friday 15th May (Week 3) 9.15-10.45 – Keeping up to date with new research is important but time consuming! This session will show you how to set up automatic alerts so that you are notified about new articles and other publications and additions to key web sites. Participants will have the opportunity to set up RSS feed readers and/or email notifications during the session.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, researchers and academics.
Presenters: Helen Matthews and Ian Chilvers
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road >Book online

Bodleian iSkills: Information sources for African Studies Friday 15th May (Week 3) 11.00-12.30 – This session will introduce key information sources for African Studies.  We will cover key finding tools and how to use them effectively as well as  important portals and gateways to libraries and archives of online primary texts. The majority of the session will consist of a talk and demonstration but there will be time for a brief hands-on at the end.
Who is this session for? Researchers, academic staff, graduates and anyone interested in the topic.
Presenters: Lucy McCann, Sarah Rhodes
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road >Book online

What’s coming up in the iSkills Programme – See the full timetable and book your place  at http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/workshopsbydate

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities: Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills  or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A selection of the new books received in the library during April may now be seen on our website and LibraryThing page.