Laptop lockers

Laptop lockers are now available in the Barr Smith Library adjacent the level 3 student lounge. The laptop lockers can be used to recharge your laptop while it is securely stored. Keys are available from the Service Enquiries desk for a 3 hour period.

Exhibition: Simone Kennedy — ‘Halflight’

The University of Adelaide Art & Heritage Collections invite you to view the latest exhibition in their Cultural Illuminations series.
Simone Kennedy’s ‘Halflight’ will be on display in the entrance foyer of the Barr Smith Library from 31 July – 16 October 2009, during normal Library opening hours.

Admission is free — all welcome.

Simone Kennedy has worked as a full time artist painting in oils and developing soft sculpture since 1998. In 2005 she completed a Masters by research degree in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia.
‘Halflight’ evolved from a concept for a memorial to a reconstructed memory of a meeting with her father … in daylight there is truth in halflight there is memory …

Artist talk — Sunday 16 August 2pm in the Barr Smith Library’s Ira Raymond Room.

Running concurrently Simone Kennedy ‘The Orphans’, Greenaway Art Gallery, 15 July – 23 August.

Dissecting Your Reading List – library session

So you’ve just got your reading list. Feeling overwhelmed by all those different citations? Don’t panic we can help!

Dissecting Your Reading List, Thursday 13th August, 1.10-1.40pm, Training Room 2, Barr Smith Library

This session will teach you to quickly and painlessly dissect your reading list to work out what the citations are actually for and how to understand them. By the end, you’ll be able to easily identify the bits of information that make up a citation and identify what type of material the citation is for. You will also learn how to find these resources in the library.

Classes are limited to currently enrolled University of Adelaide students and staff. Please provide a valid University email when registering for a session. To register for this session email: library.training@adelaide.edu.au

 To checkout other library sessions view: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/help/training.html

Upgrade to Student PCs

Over the next few days, we will be upgrading 50 of our Student PCs in the BSL, replacing the existing (slow!) PCs with new machines — faster, more memory and bigger screens.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused while upgrade work is in process.

Relocation of “Medical” collection – Finished

We are pleased to announce that the relocation of medical and health sciences books is complete. All of the material previously found in the “basement” under the Reading Room can now be found on Level 2 South. This comprises items in the 600-619 Dewey call number range — general technology and medical/health sciences material.

The relocation means that Call numbers from 000 to 599 are found on Level 1 of the Barr Smith Library, and numbers from 600-999 are on Level 2.

Search Smarter, Better, Faster @ Library – new sessions

The Library is offering two new training sessions in semester 2.

Databases: getting started, Thursday 27th August, 1.10-2pm, Training Room 1

Databases are an essential tool for finding journal articles. Everyone needs to be familiar with how to use them. If you find the thought of having to use a database worrying, come along to this hands-on session (feel free to bring an assignment or topic to research) and learn some basic database skills using Academic Search Premier that will help you search any database more efficiently.

Staying afloat with RSS, Friday 28th August, 1.10-2pm, Training Room 1

There’s so much information available on the internet – it can be impossible to keep up. RSS is a tool that can be very helpful in managing all this information. In this hands-on session we’ll teach you about RSS, how to sign up, how to use it and how to get the most from this handy technology

These sessions are designed for anyone who wants to develop skills that will help them find resources forassignments and make their study Smarter, Better, Faster.

For more information and to checkout our other sessions visit: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/help/training.html

These classes are limited to currently enrolled University of Adelaide students and staff. Please provide a valid University email when registering for a session. To register for these sessions (places are limited), for more information, or for alerts about future sessions, contact library.training@adelaide.edu.au

Relocation of BSL “medical” collection

As part of our continuing efforts to respace and simplify the BSL Main Collection, we are currently moving the books and journals shelved in the basement under the Reading Room to Level 2 South. This comprises items in the 600-619 Dewey call number range — general technology and medical/health sciences material.

Once moved, we will have the entire 600-699 sequence together on one floor, which should make it easier for you to find items in this sequence.

If you are looking for books in this Call number range, please be aware that they may be in the old or the new location, depending on progress. Our respacing team have made a great start, and have moved 16 bays of books in just the first morning. But we expect the entire move to take a couple of weeks, so some disruption is to be expected.

Event: Daisy Bates and the provocation of research

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library
Barr Smith Discovery Series

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free public talk with Susanna Moore on Thursday 23 July 2009 at 1.05pm.

Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

Susanna Moore, award-winning author of ‘In the Cut’, which was made into a film directed by Jane Campion, is writer-in-residence in the University’s Creative Writing program. She will speak about her research on Daisy Bates as a possible subject for fiction or film, and the nature of research as both provocation and inspiration, as well as the temptations that ensue for a novelist while doing research – the pleasure of it, and the difficulty in giving it up to begin the work of fiction.

Moore has worked with the Daisy Bates Papers in the Barr Smith Library: a selection of materials will be on display at this event.

Bookings by Tuesday 21 July to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au
Telephone: 8303 4064

Admission is free and open to the public.

Seating is limited.

Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library

Facebook milestone

Did you know the Barr Smith Library is on Facebook and we have 1,094 fans?

If you’re on Facebook and not yet a fan, why not join the thousand other people and keep an eye on what we’re doing.

View our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-Australia/The-Barr-Smith-Library/22489518232