Broadcast

We are moving!

Stephanie McKeating — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:29:54 +0000

: House on lorry reproduced under Creative Common License from flickr.com

The Broadcast blog is on the move. After two and a half years of news and views from the Library Engineering team this will be the last post on this site. To carry on receiving the same mixture of information and news on all topics related to engineering you will need to access the new integrated Library blog at http://blog.lboro.ac.uk/blog/ which brings together information of interest to all three Faculties. There are a couple of ways to home in on Engineering posts on the new blog – just click on the “Engineering” link in the Category cloud on the right hand side or use the links provided to set up an Engineering RSS feed.

Useful new changes to the Inspec database

Becky Jones — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:55:30 +0000

Inspec are very pleased to announce the addition of full scientific formula displays on the Inspec database record citations. While Inspec is not a full text database, the result of this new capability allows for these scientific formula displays to appear within abstracts and other fields on the full record displays and Result Lists.

Also included in the database update is a simpler, more streamlined searching functionality. Learn more about it, and the scientific formula display, on this page. Any questions or comments, please let us know!

Internet Resources Newsletter

Sharon Reid — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:41:15 +0000

Culled directly from the Internet Resources Newsletter, here is the latest engineering-related internet news. As ever, do take a look at the newsletter itself which is always packed with links to both useful and intriguing sites.

Building Sustainable Design (UBM Built Environment’s latest brand) is a new monthly magazine for building services engineers, architects, clients and all construction professionals who care about sustainable, low energy design in the built environment.

EngineeringDaily.net is a news/articles/discussions magazine by and for in-the-trenches practitioners.

Anyone interested in RSS feeds may like to view the following:

Royal Academy of Engineering News Releases
http://www.raeng.org.uk/feeds/rssnews.aspx

Women and engineering – an online exhibition

Sharon Reid — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:21:14 +0000

Photo by Duke Yearlook, www.flickr.com

We’ve come across a really interesting online exhibition put together by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Entitled ‘Women and engineering, emancipation from drudgery’ it charts the fascinating history of the struggle women encountered before gaining recognition and acceptance as engineers. The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and the Electrical Association for Women and their efforts to educate and help them are also featured.

Adding a local flavour, you’ll see by clicking on the link to ‘The Woman Engineer’, the journal of the WES, one of the first editions has a cover shot of women working in the gauge shop at Loughborough College!

Link here to the full exhibition.

Important new content added to the IEEE Xplore…

Becky Jones — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:17:47 +0000

The IEEE legacy collection is part of IEEE’s plan to digitize all papers from its technology journals including key papers that chronicle the development of today’s information age. More than 250,000 historic papers have recently been added to the database. With the addition of these historic publications, dating back to 1913, you will have access to a repository of papers by visionaries in the electrical and electronics engineering professions. Notable additions to the collection include the Proceedings of the IEEE as well as the Computer Magazine, dating back to the early 1960s and 1970s respectively. The collection also includes a number of conference proceedings dating back to the 1950s.

Explore the history of Engineering at:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp

Web snippets

Sharon Reid — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:49:18 +0000

Extracted from the May edition of the Internet Resources Newsletter, just three items to tempt you with this time. Once you’ve looked at these, do try the newsletter itself – there’s usually something for everyone!

Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology

The Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology (JASET) is an open access, peer reviewed, double blind, journal for the dissemination of applied technical scholarship.

Project Leadership: Building and Improving Teams 09

The Barbican, London, 19th May.

“Increasingly the project management community is debating the role of leadership within projects, having realised that the plethora of systems, processes, procedures and IT software created in the past couple of decades is still not guaranteeing a successful project outcome. Is project leadership the key skill that has been missing our attention?”

SearchPetroleum.net

SearchPetroleum.net (SP.net ) is a search engine created specifically for the petroleum industry. It displays the most relevant and highest quality petroleum websites.

Would you miss us?

Lizzie Gadd — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:11:19 +0000

Here in the Library we are currently pondering whether separate blogs for each faculty are the way to go, or if we shouldn’t have a single blog for all of our users. Personally, we’d be sorry to say goodbye to Broadcast – but the question is – would you? If you would, grab hold of our proverbial ankles, screaming “don’t go!” using the comments box below…

We’re listening!

Sharon Reid — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:28:21 +0000

: Photo by jasonEscapist, taken from www.flickr.com

Give us a piece of your mind!

If you could change ONE THING about the Library – what would it be?

If the Library had more space, how should we use it?

Now’s your chance to have your say about the Library through our User Survey. It’s short – five minutes max, so just go to: http://picture-box.lboro.ac.uk/Public/UCCASS/survey.php?sid=76 and tell us how it is!

24/7 coming soon!

Sharon Reid — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:48:58 +0000

: Photo by Leo Reynolds, taken from www.flickr.com

Once again the Library will be extending its opening hours during the revision and exam period. From Monday 4th May to Friday 19th June you’ll be able to use the Library 24/7 for study, research and borrowing purposes.

Even more drop-in sessions!

Sharon Reid — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:20:33 +0000

Photo by Jumping Lab, taken from www.flickr.com

Once again we’re offering drop-in sessions for anyone struggling to find the engineering information they need. Skilled advice is at hand on how best to utilise our electronic information resources.

So, don’t waste time pondering, come and see us for some one-to-one help.

This term our popular drop-in sessions will be held in our Library-based Engineering Team office every Tuesday and Thursday from 5th May to 18th June, 12.00-2.00pm. Either book a slot via E.N.Gineer@lboro.ac.uk or simply knock on our door (we’re in Open3, halfway down the room on the right hand side).

Member of academic staff? Your students could benefit from our advice. Please give us a mention!