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With over 500 staff covering three wide-ranging, busy divisions, there are always new things happening in Information Services. Here are a few developments that you may not know about.
- Visit the IT Clinic...
- Access eBooks and eJournals through Cardiff Portal...
- Get the most out of the new library developments...
- Find out how information literacy can help you...
- Meet Dewi the Dragon...
- Learn about a 'Day in the Life' of some of our library staff...
- Connect to our wireless service...
- Discover a more sustainable Information Services...
Staff and students can visit Information Services' IT Clinic for free advice on IT equipment, networks and mobile devices.
The Clinic's staff can also help with ResLAN queries and with advice on registering laptops, BlackBerrys and mobile phones to use the wireless networks.
The Clinic is located on the first floor of the Students' Union.
Find out more about the University's IT services.
Over 3,000 eBooks and 25,000 eJournals can be accessed via Cardiff Portal.
Find out more about what Cardiff Portal can offer you.
Read about Cardiff University's electronic resources.
A number of changes and renovations have taken place across the University's libraries in the last year.
Recent changes include:
- The Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL) now has three new group study / seminar rooms, a state-of-the-art wireless-enabled eLounge, and lots of new mobile shelving to allow more flexible use of space.
- The Bute Library has been revamped to implement self service issue, return and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, and the layout at the entrance to the Library has been improved.
- In the Architecture Library, self service issue, return and RFID technology has all been installed, and the entrance and office have been redesigned to make it a more user friendly space.
- Self service issues, returns and RFID technology have also been implemented in the Biomedical Sciences Library.
Find out more about the University's recent library developments.
The popularity of Cardiff's famous Cephalonian Method - a pioneering technique that uses music, colour and audience participation to involve and engage students - continues to spread.
Since being presented at the national School Libraries Conference in Peterborough in April 2009, the method has subsequently found a new audience in schools around the UK. It has also proved a success in New Zealand and was presented at the prestigious LIANZI conference in Auckland in October.
The Cephalonian Method has been adopted in universities across the UK and around the world.
The method forms part of Cardiff University's world-leading information literacy resources, which are proving a huge success in today's information-rich environment.
Visit our new-look information literacy web pages.
Media Resources Centre graphic designer Ruth Bowen created the Designed to Smile 'hero' character of Dewi the Dragon.
The Designed to Smile campaign programme was announced in March 2008, and is the public face of the £1.4m National Child Oral Health Improvement Programme.
The programme builds on pilot work undertaken in the Merthyr area, in developing different teaching options that create the right dental healthcare message for children.
Ruth's designs were well received by the pilot programme and the Welsh Assembly. The idea was further developed for leaflet promotion, mobile dental units' livery, staff uniforms and included on the Designed to Smile website.
Learn more about the Media Resources Centre.
You can discover the secret life of library staff through a 'Day in the Life'...
...the website that reveals the behind the scenes activities of Cardiff University Library Service staff, illustrating the scale and diversity of library work.
The site contains a series of ten snapshots, written by University library staff, and captures the blend of innovative and traditional, digital and documentary, education and inspirational work that takes place in Cardiff's libraries.
Read the 'Days in the Life'.
Cardiff University has the largest wireless network in UK Higher Education...
...comprising 19 wireless controllers in seven locations and over 1,114 wireless access points covering 102 buildings.
Information Services' network team has been working with colleagues in the University’s Estates Division, School of Medicine and the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board to expand wireless network provision on the Heath Park campus.
The wireless network coverage (enabling access to Cardiff University networks such as CU-WiFi and the Higher Education JANET EDUROAM network), has been extended to six further buildings at the University Hospital Wales – Henry Wellcome, Medical Genetics, Heart Research, Tenovus, Neuadd Merionydd (including the new Café Bar), and the new Cancer Genetics building.
This equates to an increase in wireless service provision at the Hospital site by 60% over the last 12 months through the deployment of an additional 137 wireless access points. The expansion was achieved through a joint INSRV and School of Medicine funding collaboration.
Learn more about the University's wireless network.
The Law Library has been providing much-needed reference material for legal practitioners in Malawi, South East Africa.
As part of the library's stock review during summer 2009, a number of older textbooks were removed to create space for new materials.
Some textbooks have been sent to Malawi for legal practitioners to use, since gaining access to English legal texts is one of the main obstacles to Malawian lawyers and solicitors setting up private practices.
The Law and Legal Practice Libraries will continue to send text and practice materials to Malawi whenever suitable books become available in order to help the country's legal profession.
Find out more about Information Services' sustainability objectives.