Top up your print account online. The minimum amount you can top up has recently dropped from £5 to £2.
If you have any library-themed money saving tips that you’d like to share, please email them to asl@lincoln.ac.uk…
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A historical epic about love, war, survival, ruthlessness, loss and inequality: Gone with the Wind is a classic. Released in 1939 and based on the 1936 novel by American author Margaret Mitchell.
The year is 1861, and America is on the brink of civil war. But for headstrong Georgia teenager Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh), impending war isn’t nearly as important as the fact that the man she loves, Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), has just announced his engagement to his shy, gentle cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Scarlett’s father (Thomas Mitchell), a self-made Irish immigrant, tries to teach her that Tara, the family plantation, offers something more enduring than human love, but Scarlett can only think of her broken heart. To add insult to injury, a cocky scoundrel named Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) has witnessed Ashley giving her the brush-off. But then the war is on and nothing will ever be the same for her—or the South.
Through the years of war and Reconstruction that follow, Scarlett’s fortunes fall and rise, as she struggles to endure the upheaval of her world and to win Ashley away from Melanie—even as she and Melanie forge an unlikely friendship. In these tumultuous years, the only constants are Rhett Butler, who sees through all Scarlett’s pretenses to recognize that they are two of a kind, and Tara, which Scarlett comes to love as herself.
Gone with the Wind received 10 Oscars and has consistently been voted in the top 10 greatest movies. Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win (and be nominated for) an Oscar for her supporting role as Scarlett’s strict but faithful housemaid, Mammy. A film of firsts, screenwriter Sidney Howard received an Oscar posthumously for his script.
If you’d like to watch Gone with the Wind yourself then head over to 813.52 mit in the DVD Off-air recordings on the Ground Floor of the University Library.
Q. Clark Gable was initially reluctant to play Rhett Butler. In the end. what made him agree to the role?
The two (red & blue) volumes of the Spons price books – the 2010 editions – are now available for architecture students to request at the ground floor library services desk in the GCW University Library (Brayford Pool Campus.)
The two volumes are:
In addition to the print copies, both volumes are available in the GCW’s Core Collection, on a stand-alone (non-networked) computer. These electronic version include an e-book (containing the data in the price book) plus access to the Spons price book application.
Workshops on this week
1st – 4th February 2010
Come to the following Library workshops THIS WEEK!
BOOK NOW on the Portal at http://nn.nf/4706 or text the code printed next to the workshop that you would like to attend, along with your name and student ID to: 07972 455 457
Introduction to RefWorks - text code RW0102 ( to create your references and bibliographies automatically)
Monday 1st Feb at 5pm
Library Essentials – how to use and manage your library account – text code LA0202
Tuesday 2nd Feb at 12pm
Introduction to RefWorks - text code RW0202
Tuesday 2nd Feb at 1pm
Library Essentials – how to use and manage your library account – text code LA0402
Thursday 4th at 3pm
Finding journal articles – text code JA0402
Thursday 4th at 5pm
All in IT lab UL101 (1st floor)
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be posting a series of library-themed money saving tips here on this blog. If you have any tips that you’d like to share, please email them to asl@lincoln.ac.uk…
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Library & Learning Resources are running this survey to find out what you think of our services, and to identify what service improvements you would like us to prioritise.
Please do take five minutes to complete this questionnaire, and make your views known.
The login button on the e-journals A-to-Z is taking a long time to actually log users in today, or else is ‘freezing’ completely.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused – we’ve reported the problem to EBSCO (who provide the A-to-Z service) and we’ll let you know as soon as it’s fixed.
In the meantime, you can still use the A-to-Z to search for the journal you need, even without logging in.
Once you’ve linked out to a journal’s website, you should then be able to log in to that individual site and access the full text of any articles.
Please contact your Academic Subject Librarian or email athens@lincoln.ac.uk if you have any problems.
We get a lot of queries sent to RefWorks@lincoln.ac.uk about the correct procedure for logging in to RefWorks or Write-N-Cite if you’re presented with a “RefWorks login center” screen asking for a “Group Code”.
(Image: Red herring @ Lowestoft, Suffolk, by timparkinson.)
That login screen is a bit of a red herring – we don’t use a Group Code for RefWorks at the University of Lincoln.
So, how do you log in to RefWorks / WnC from this screen? Here’s a step-by-step guide… (N.B. these steps assume that this is the first time you’ve logged into RefWorks this way. If not, you’ll probably find you can skip some of the stages.)
(Image: the "RefWorks login center" screen. Click for bigger.)
(Image: the "RefWorks Athens Authentication Point" screen. Click for bigger.)
(Image: the Athens "Find your organisation" screen. Click for bigger.)
(Image: the Athens "Go to the University of Lincoln login page" screen. Click for bigger.)
That’s it! if you follow those four steps, you should be correctly logged into Write-N-Cite, or into RefWorks itself (you’ll often have to follow this login process when you’re importing search results into RefWorks from other databases or search engines on the open web).
If you’re totally new to Write-N-Cite and can’t even find it on the University desktop (it’s a little well-hidden, we know!!!), here’s a link to even more step-by-step instructions, plus a video to help you get started.
Any questions? Email: RefWorks@lincoln.ac.uk
Thank you for your patience through our technical difficulties today.
Library systems (including self issue and return of books, and access to our online library catalogue) are now working again – a hardware problem has been resolved by University ICT services and we are not expecting any more ‘down time’.
We would ask that you please bear with us while we process today’s backlog of offline, manual book transactions. Details of any loans / returns will appear on your library account shortly.
Please do contact library staff if you experience any problems with our services.
Did you know that while our library catalogue isn’t working, you can still use our collections of e-books?
We have access to e-books on THREE separate platforms – you can log in to each one via the University Portal (use network\accountID and your usual password to log in if you are off campus).
The three platforms are:
More than 40,000 titles (and growing) across the whole range of subjects. A good, general place to start to look for information from e-books. Here’s a help guide. You can search the books by title, author, or full-text keyword. This platform is designed to complement………..
2. MyiLibrary
Searchable access to the University’s collection of full-text electronic books (e-books), across a range of subject areas. These books have been individually selected for the subjects of the University of Lincoln… so while there may not be quite the same range of titles as in the ebrary platform, you may find titles in MyiLibrary that are a better ‘fit’ for your subject reading.
3. dawsonera
Our newest collection! A very small number of e-books (so far), mainly in the subject of sports, coaching & exercise science.
Also… don’t overlook the very useful free sources of e-books out on the Internet: here are a few examples; if you know of any useful sites for your subject, please post links in the comments here!
