New podcasts available from Emerald

Emerald Publishing is now offering a set of podcasts freely available for a limited time. These are written by David Pollitt, and cover a range of subjects, for example Accounting and Finance, Marketing and Logistics, Trade, Human Resources Management. They can be accessed and downloaded from this link: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/tk/podcasts, in MP3 format.

David Pollitt works in the University of Bradford's European Intelligence Unit, and has edited various academic journals in the areas of Strategic Management, HRM and Training.

Interesting use of Flickr for Olympics related photos

This is probably of primary interest to Events Management and Tourism people, but though you might be interested in this interesting use of Flickr. Someone has created a group called Olympics2012 that is organised using the concept of taking photographs to chart the changing Olympic Landscape.

As you can see from the image on the right, not all of them are in favour of the Olympics.

Group available on Flickr site here.

Rearrangement of the Adsetts Centre

Have you all noticed the changes going on in the Adsetts Centre? The move of items from familiar locations is perhaps a bit confusing so we thought it would be a good idea to update you all on the purpose and completion dates for this summer's reorganisation.

Traditionally, the Adsetts Centre has had four subject floors within the building. This has been redesigned, partially in order to take the forthcoming collections from Psalter Lane, but also to provide a more logical flow and sequence to our existing collections.

The Dewey sequence in Adsetts now starts on Level 2 at 000 and finishes on Level 6 at 999. As such, the building is arranged like this:

Level 2 - 000-299 - computing, journalism, philosophy, psychology

Level 3 - 300-499 - economics, education, housing, language and linguistics, social sciences

Level 5 - 500-779 - architecture, arts, business, construction, design, engineering, management, maths and sciences

Level 6 - 780-999 - geography, history, literature and tourism

Obviously, there are a number of gaps where the material from Psalter Lane will be placed.

Other collections that will be shifted are as follows:

• All journals will be located on Level 2, including current displays
• All media will be located on Level 3

There will also be a single Helpdesk on Level 4 for all enquiries, including circulation, information and IT enquiries.

Please let us know if you have any questions about this process or if you have any concerns that you would like to bring to our attention.

Industry Guides from the British Library

Of particular use and interest to academics and students concerned with entrepreneurship are these new(ish) guides from the British Library. Essentially they are mini-subject guides, packed with lists of printed and interweb resources. Information ranges from who the likely competitors will be to the suppliers concerned with your chosen industry.

httpp://www.bl.uk/collections/business/bisheets.html

RSS feeds

Following on from the Digital Fluency event, we thought it might be useful to remind you that you can subscribe to the blog using the RSS links on the right hand side. If you need any help setting up blog aggregators, drop us a line and we can talk you through it.

Keeping up to date with Leisuretourism.com

Do you need to keep up to date in the fields of leisure, tourism, hospitality and recreation?

Are you stretched for time due to the rigours of academia?

Well those dedicated leisure and tourism specialists at Leisuretourism.com may have the answer.

Each month, once you subscribe, they send you an information brimming email combed from the fields of leisure, tourism, hospitality and recreation notifying you of new 'In Brief and In Depth' articles from the last month on Lesuiretourism.com, forthcoming events, newly published CABI books and featured abstracts which support a recent article from Lesuiretourism.com.

The newsletter is useful for keeping up to date with matters in your area and for the database it is a useful 'hook' to draw you to use their information. Nevertheless with new abstracts added every week; the database does keep you in touch with the very latest developments in your field.

If you want to keep up to date it's a useful tool and may be worth subscribing so it can land in your inbox once a month and lead you to articles that you may not have found from pure googling.

Where else would you find proof that; the Glastonbury Festival generates big money for the local economy, that leading cricketers live longer lives and a paper to support the belief that referees do favour the home team!

Intute Repository Search

The information gateway Intute has launched a new repository search which allows you to search for e-prints from contents of UK academic repositories, including our very own SHURA.

To date there are over 300,000 e-prints from 82 repository: the advanced search feature gives you a list of all the repositories that are covered.

If you are interested in placing your own research into SHURA, please contact Mark Clowes in the Virtual Learning Centre team.

O&M Librarian Subject Responsibilities

We've had a reshuffle. Over the last 6 months, we've had a number of changes to the team, and have decided to gently rearrange the subjects that we are responsible for to make the subject groupings slightly more logical.

Here are your new contacts;

Marie Bairstow - Facilities Management, Statistics Collection
Matt Borg - Food, Hospitality, Tourism, Leisure and Events Management, Newsletter / Blog editor
Dan Bye - Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour, Marketing, Strategic Management
Angela Davies - MBA Programme, General Business
Geoff Russell - Financial Services and Banking, Financial Accounting, Media
Vacancy- International Business, Business Operations, Financial Information Systems (please contact Angela Davies)

You'll always find this list of contacts over on the right hand side of the blog.

As you can see, we are still in the process of recruiting to an Information Adviser (Maternity Cover) and the Information Specialist for the team.

Financial Times in Nexis

At the moment the Financial Times can only be searched with the General search either with the power search or easy search tab. Each user has to set up for access to the Financial Times, but once set up then it is available for all subsequent log ins/sessions.There is also a 24 hour embargo so the most recent FT is only available by going to the FT web site.

To set up access in Nexis:-

1) Click on Sources tab towards the top of the screen
2) Use the alphabetical find list and select F;
3) Tick “Financial Times (London), and you may also wish to tick Financial Times On Line Archive and Financial Times Mandate
4) Enter a name such as FT Collection in the “name selected sources box” and click in the “save as favourites” box
5) Click on the “OK Continue button” and you can now search the FT in power search or easy search.

Hopefully, this process should be streamlined soon, we'll keep you updated.

Reading Lists

Angie Donoghue (Senior Information Adviser, Virtual Learning Centre Team) has this to say on Reading Lists;

Now is a great time for you to be thinking about reading lists. Maybe you need to get some new resources ordered for next year. Maybe you don’t yet have your reading list available electronically via the Library Catalogue or in your Blackboard sites.

Despite your best efforts do you still find your students reluctant to either do the core reading or read around their subject and think critically to evaluate what they have read?

The reading list software gives you the opportunity to annotate the items on lists so that students can get a very clear idea of the purpose of your recommendations and your expectations of them. Items in the list link directly to the Library Catalogue records to show availability. You can get print texts digitised and added to your lists and also make links directly to full text journal articles and websites if you wish.

1 search box for a range of good quality leisure, tourism and hospitality databases

The 2 subject specific databases for hospitality, leisure and tourism are now both cross-searchable using LITSearch. These are Ebsco's Hospitality and Tourism Index and CABI's Leisure Tourism Database.

Used in conjunction with the broad coverage of Business Source Premier, ScienceDirect, and Emerald, it is now possible to cover a wide range of useful sources for these subjects from one search point: Cross Search in LITSearch.

If you would like an introduction or refresher in this area please contact me on l.tassoni@shu.ac.uk

UN World Tourism Organisation Database

We currently have a trial of UNWTO's Elibrary and World Tourism Factbook. This allows access to all their electronic publications.

We have not looked at this before because it is rather costly, and we have always taken all the statistical publications and most of the monographs in hard copy anyway. However we did think that it would be interesting to at least compare the service given in this electronic subscription to the coverage we currently have on our shelves.

Access to Elibrary: http://www.e-unwto.org/home/main.mpx
Flyer: http://www.unwto.org/pub/doc/WTOelibrary_Flyer.pdf
Factsheet: http://www.unwto.org/pub/doc/WTOelibrary_Factsheet.pdf

I've had a quick look and my initial views are that the cost is not justified. We are looking at about £3,500 pa, whereas we currently spend less than £1000 pa on UNWTO publications. If we were starting a collection from scratch it would be a different matter, but we already have 8 years worth of statistics and most of their monographs on the shelves, and this would not give us future ownership of materials - only annual access.

I had thought that full-text searching of books would be a big plus-point, but my initial tests seem to indicate that the search functionality is very crude. I will be doing further assessments over this month.
We would be very interested in hearing your views on the coverage and useability of the product, and whether you think any extra functionality and access justify a large cost increase.
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This access will be active until the 31st January.
Please email me to request Username and Password for this trial.
l.tassoni@shu.ac.uk

Team Contacts

As you will know by now, the O&M Information Specialist Richard Swift has left the University to take up a position at Derby. We are recruting to the role, but in the mean time you can contact Angela Davies on a.m.davies@shu.ac.uk or the O&M Information Adviser responsible for your subject area (see contacts box).