Christmas is nearly upon us...

...and with that comes Christmas Opening Hours:

Hull:

The Brynmor Jones Library closes at 5pm on Christmas Eve and will re-open at 8:30am on Tuesday 27th December. The library will close again on Saturday 31 December at 5pm, will remain closed on 1 January, opening again at 8:30am on Monday  2 January. More information about Hull’s opening hours can be found on their website.  

York:

The University Library will be closed from 4pm on Christmas Eve to 8am on Tuesday 27th December, and from 4pm on New Year's Eve to 8am on Monday 2nd January.

All loaned items from York are subject to recall throughout the Christmas vacation, but you'll have a whole week to get them back. Nothing will be due back between 22nd December and 5th January inclusive. More information about York's loans and hours can be found on their website.

Online Materials & SCONUL access:

It's worth remembering that most of the books we buy for HYMS are available electronically, so you should be able to access them wherever you are this Christmas. The same goes for our other e-resources. If you prefer something physical, you're in the UK or Ireland, and there's another university library nearby, you can always sign up to the SCONUL Access scheme which can get you into a large number of university libraries across the country. More details are available from the links below:

• Quick guide to signing up to the SCONUL scheme (by the University of York)
• SCONUL Access information from Hull
• SCONUL Access information from York

We hope you have a great Christmas break and enjoy your holidays.

Best wishes, HYMS Library Team

We all know that the Brynmor Jones is a stunner

We all know that the Brynmor Jones is a stunner and now RIBA have rubber stamped that with three awards; basically that means if Kevin McCloud spent his time making shows about libraries the BJL would be on the title screen. But we don't need television to make that happen, we have it for real! We couldn't agree with RIBA more, and we could go on writing and writing, but just look ...

  For full coverage see RIBA's article on the BJL 

York and Hull Get The Director's Cut Treatment

The University of York Library has had the director's cut treatment. Take a look at this video showcasing some of the services and resources available to HYMS students to make your University life easier, more enriched, more successful and more fun. If you've taken advantage of all of these, start getting the most out of them now! Not to be outdone the Brynmor Jones Library gets some nice shots in Hull's NSS video too! For more information about services for HYMS students please visit the HYMS library pages. 

Library System Upgrade

The Brynmoor Jones library at Hull are getting their techy screwdrivers out to  upgrade the library management system today, starting at 4pm and ending at 10pm. During the period of the upgrade, students and staff should borrow books via one of the Library help points. 

Library accounts will be inaccessible during this time, so make sure that you have renewed your books that are due back today before 4pm, and any other essential library account activities.

The Library Catalogue will continue to be available.

The move to the new system, called Sierra, will mean a more joined up relationship with other campus systems and ultimately lead to a better experience for staff and students; so it’s a short bit of pain for some long term gain.

Photo credit: Ryan McGuire, Gratisography

Art Gallery Collection on the Virtual Bookshelf

Calling all art connoisseurs!

In January cataloguing was completed on the York Art Gallery Gift Collection -  3,500 items donated to the Library by the York Museums Trust. Following on from this, the project team and Digital York have now launched the Virtual Bookshelf, which features many items from the collection - click on something that takes your interest, and you go straight to the catalogue entry, to find out where you can see it in real life. You can explore the Virtual Bookshelf at:
http://digital.york.ac.uk/showcase/yorkcityartgallery.jsp

The Virtual Bookshelf will add further collections over the coming months and you can read blog posts by Library staff about interesting and unique items in the collection on the Liberating Information blog: York City Art Gallery blog posts.

We're also looking forward to the opening of the art gallery at the Brynmor Jones Library in Hull. Paintings are being hung at the moment.

New eBooks: Gray's Anatomy for Students and Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience

You now have access to Gray's Anatomy for Students by Richard Drake and Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience by Estomih Mtui, Gregory Gruener and M. J. T. Fitzgerald as eBooks.

You can access them via the University of Hull library catalogue, so will need your Hull account details.

Gray's Anatomy for Students: http://libsearch.hull.ac.uk/catalogue/b2361988
Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience: http://libsearch.hull.ac.uk/catalogue/b2362019

Click on the link to "Access this resource online" and enter your details as directed.

Please note that when searching for Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience on the library catalogue, currently only Mtui is listed as an author, this will be updated shortly.

If you have any suggestions for titles we could add to stock as eBooks or print books, contact us at library@hyms.ac.uk

METRIC, new medical education journal, inviting submissions from HYMS tutors and students

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust have launched a new quarterly Medical Education Journal and would like to invite submissions from HYMS tutors and students:

METRIC

Medical Education Training Research Innovation in Clinical Care Journal

Launched October 2014!

METRIC is the first peer reviewed clinical journal which publishes reviews and clinical/educational articles relevant to patient safety and innovative practice, practice guidance and quality improvement.  Themed issues containing articles in important fields of current clinical research and educational activity written by our eminent experts in the field will be produced.
Each issue is published under the guidance of the Editors in Chief who will quality assure the articles prior to publication in addition to the robust peer review process.
The journal will be published quarterly.
The first issue was launched in October 2014 and submissions from authors are now being accepted.
http://www.hey.nhs.uk/METRIC%20Journal%20October%202014.pdf

The deadline for these submissions is midnight on Tuesday 30th December 2014.  

 Please submit any article to: Jacqui.smales@hey.nhs.uk

Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, redevelopment update

·         The west (tower) end of the ground floor will open at 2.00pm today, Monday 29 September.  At the same time the 2^nd floor of the east building will also be re-openin.

·         The west end of the ground floor contains 30 PCs, informal seating and two centrally bookable teaching rooms, an information point, and printing and recycling facilities. It also contains the new book sorter.  This is where all books will be returned in future, and where they will be automatically sorted for distribution to the various locations around the Library.  Until the book sorter is fully tested and operational books will continue to be returned at the information point on the first floor of the tower.

·         The 2^nd floor of the east building contains three centrally bookable teaching rooms, 16 PCs, informal seating, group study rooms, an information point, and printing and recycling facilities.

·         External works are nearing completion and access to the new south entrance has been simplified and made more visible.  Brynmor Jones Library hopes to open the old main entrance and the rest of the ground floor, with the exception of the gallery and exhibition spaces, in the second half of this month. 

Access to eresources at University of Hull library

Since January, the Brynmor Jones Library has introduced Shibboleth as its main authentication method, replacing Athens.

For users of the service, this results in two major differences:

1.) You no longer need an Athens username and Password for the University of Hull, and will sign in with the IT login you received instead.

2.) When accessing resources off-campus you will no longer look for the Athens login but for an institutional login and may then need to select the UK Access Management Federation and University of Hull from dropdown menus.

If you have previously saved the urls of any electronic resources supplied by the University of Hull in your favourites, it may be that your Athens details will have been saved as well, and that when you try to login to that resource it takes you to the Athens login.

If this takes place, you may need to clear your web cache.

If you have any queries about any of the above, please contact library@hyms.ac.uk.

University of Hull, Brynmor Jones Library redevelopment update

·         The 5^th floor will re-open on Monday 11 August

·         The 4^th floor is expected to re-open on Monday 25 August

·         The 3^rd  floor will close on Monday 11 August to allow the contractors to remove the internal hoarding and complete all works to the floor.  It is due to re-open on Monday 1^st September 

University of Hull Library IT system maintenance 15 July 2014

University of Hull ICT have made the following announcement:

Library IT system maintenance

When?: The ICT Department will be conducting essential maintenance work between the hours of 7.30 and 9.30am on Tuesday 15^th July 2014.

What does this mean for me?: During this period it will not be possible to check your library account, renew items online, use the self-service issue and return facilities, borrow laptops or obtain copy information from the catalogue, however, other services will be operating as usual.

Who can I contact?: For further information please contact the ICT Service Desk by phone on 01482 46 2010 or by email help@hull.ac.uk.

Why are we doing it?: By carrying out this maintenance work we will provide customers with a better, more resilient service.