Join our Saturday invigilator team

If you regularly work in the library on Saturdays, you may be interested in joining our team of invigilators to provide lunch cover on a rota basis for our Saturday Library Assistant each week.

You would be required to work for approximately 30 minutes for two or three Saturdays per term, staffing the enquiry desk and responding to reader enquiries. You will be able to communicate effectively and courteously with readers and visitors, and have sufficient IT skills to learn our library system and troubleshoot basic problems with our PCs and equipment. Full training will be provided; familiarity with the library and collections will be an advantage. This is a variable hours post paid on grade 1 of the University’s salary structure.

Full details may be found on the University’s recruitment website, from where you can apply online by 12 midday on Monday 9th November. For an informal discussion about the post please contact the Librarian: jane.rawson@bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 282701.

iSkills coming up: Open access, Literature reviews, Getting started, Mendeley

iSkills logoDuring week 4 Bodleian Libraries will be running classes on Open Access, moving from a research question to a literature review, getting started in Oxford Libraries and the reference management system, Mendeley.  Please find more information and booking details below.

No space? – Some of the workshops below are likely to book up quickly. If the course is fully booked please join the waiting list as spaces often become available later on and as, in some cases, we will run repeat sessions or move to a bigger venue if there is sufficient demand.

Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford – what’s happening?(Tuesday 3rd November 11.00-12 noon) Week 4 – A briefing on open access publishing and Oxford’s position. During the session we will cover “Green” and “Gold” routes to open access; funder mandates and publisher policies; the HEFCE policy on Open Access and the REF; the Oxford Research Archive (ORA) and Symplectic; how to get help via the Open Access web site and helpline.
Who is this session for? Current Oxford research postgraduates, researchers, academics, University and Library staff.
Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Hilla Wait
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, Parks Road > Book a place

Bodleian iSkills: Moving from research questions to literature review in the Social Sciences (Tuesday 3rd November 14.00-16.00) Week 4 – Get ready to undertake your literature review using your own research questions to build a successful search and apply it to a range of library resources.
Presenter: Cathy Scutt
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road >Book a place

Bodleian iSkills: Getting started in Oxford libraries (Wednesday 4th November 10-12 noon) Week 4 – An introduction to Oxford Libraries including guidance on which libraries to use; accessing e-journals and other online resources; SOLO and other finding aids and making the most of Library services.
Who is this session for? Anyone who would like an introduction to Oxford Libraries.
Presenters: Angela Carritt & Cathy Scutt. >Book a place

Referencing: Mendeley (Bodleian iSkills) (Friday 6th November 9.30-12.15) Week 4 – 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 students wishing to use reference management software.
Presenters: Oliver Bridle, Sophia Staves
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road > Book a place

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

iSkills coming up: Referencing, Social Science data archives

iSkills logoDuring week 2 Bodleian Libraries will be running classes on the reference management tool Zotero and on data archives and statistical data in the Social Sciences.  Please find more information and booking details below plus information about this week’s e-books sessions at which there are still a few places:

Referencing: Zotero (Monday 19th October 14.00-17.00. wk 2) – Formatting references and bibliographies is time consuming and fiddley. However, reference management tools such as Zotero make it much easier by formatting your references/citations automatically.  This introductory workshop covers the main features of Zotero and will include opportunities to try out the software.
Presenter: Erika Delbecque
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road
>Book a place

Bodleian iSkills: Social Science data archives & statistical databases (Friday 23rd October 10.30-12.30; wk 2) – An overview of macro and micro data sources for social scientists including national data archives, subscription services, economic and business data. During the session, we will also offer some pointers for further searching.
Presenter: John Southall
Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road
>Book a place

There are also a few remaining places at this week’s e-books and e-book readers workshops:

Bodleian iSkills: E-books  (Friday 16th October 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 and Kat Steiner
Venue:  IT Services, 13  Banbury Road > Book a place

Bodleian iSkills: E-book readers (Friday 16th October 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 and Kat Steiner
Venue:  IT Services, 13 Banbury Road  > Book a place

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

iSkills coming up: Finding stuff, E-books

iSkills logoWelcome to the new Bodleian iSkills programme for Michaelmas Term.   You can view the full workshop timetable (and book your places)  at http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/workshopsbydate

Next week Bodleian Libraries will be running classes on finding scholarly literature for your research, e-books and e-book readers. If you’d like to attend, don’t forget to book a place.

Bodleian iSkills: Finding Stuff – Scholarly literature for your research (Wednesday 14th October  9.15-12.15)  – A practical introduction to searching for scholarly materials to support your research, covering a range of tools for finding monographs, journal articles, conference papers, theses and more.
Who is this session for?  Postgraduates, researchers and academics.
Presenters:  Helen Worrell, Joanne Edwards and Craig Finlay,
Venue:  IT Services, 13 Banbury Road   >Book a place

Bodleian iSkills: E-books  (Friday 16th October 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 and Kat Steiner
Venue:  IT Services, 13  Banbury Road > Book a place

Bodleian iSkills: E-book readers (Friday 16th October 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 and Kat Steiner
Venue:  IT Services, 13 Banbury Road  > Book a place

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

New term notes

Welcome back to those readers returning to Oxford after the summer, and welcome to new Americanists just starting this term!

If you’ve been away, here a few things you might have missed:

  • We’ve had electricians in all summer replacing the lights on the ground and first floor. This work is almost but not quite complete, so part of the first floor will remain inaccessible to readers until Friday 9th October. If you need books with shelfmarks beginning J-Z, xF-xZ, or y, please ask staff and we will fetch them for you. The first floor toilets are also currently inaccessible; please use the alternative facilities on the lower ground floor.
  • You will now receive reminder emails about books you have called up from the Bodleian stacks to alert you to renew them if you want to keep them here for more than a week.
  • Some oversized books (shelfmarks beginning xA-xE) are now on the top floor.

Term time opening hours begin today, Monday-Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.