12.04.05 8:00 PMliv?ing adj.
Possessing life: famous living painters; transplanted living tissue.
In active function or use: a living language.
Of persons who are alive: events within living memory.
Relating to the routine conduct or maintainance of life: improved living conditions in the city.
1. The condition or action of maintaining life: the high cost of living.
A manner or style of life: preferred plain living.
A means of maintaining life; livelihood: made their living by hunting.
Chiefly British. A church benefice, including the revenue attached to
1. External access to databases and to BCUC email was enabled last year but was expanded. Self help guidance sheets produced for 2002-03 were updated and some new ones produced.
2. The student induction programme continued and feedback from this was mostly positive.
3. The ?open door? policy for assistance from Faculty Librarians was continued and appears to be the students preferred method of obtaining instruction.
4. Faculty Librarians presented a training session for academic tutors.
5. Training sessions were offered to all academic staff, particularly new members of faculty who are encouraged by QED (Department of Quality Education and Development) to attend as part of their BCUC Induction, these sessions are also available on demand.
6. A number of new databases were purchased and Faculty Librarians produced useful guides for these.
7. In liaison with ICT and the User Services staff there has been ongoing discussion and debate about the Learning Resources presence on the web and the VLE. A complete overhaul of the departmental web pages is planned for the summer of 2004.
8. There have been a number of software packages introduced during the year:
1. SentientDiscover is a reading list management software programme which will assist academic staff to ensure the currency of their reading lists and allow students to access reading lists for each module on-line, link to I-link for location and availability of the required text and if necessary place a reservation. During 2003-04 the staff in the department have spent time demonstrating and working on reading lists with faculty staff. There has been a huge extra workload for staff in loading and creating quality bibliographical data for this project.
2. I-Link has provided a more user-friendly front-end for our catalogue.
3. A-Z, a software solution to tracking, listing and updating links to all the electronic journals available through our database subscriptions. This has been well received and was used to identify titles during the successful QAA Subject Reviews
4. Ovid, an aggregation of several on-line bibliographical services and includes full-text of most of the journal articles. The journals indexed are in the area of health studies and medicine but also included is SportsDiscus, a sport and leisure database. This service offers the ability to identify which articles can be found in the Learning Resources stock. All indexed holdings are now identified in this way.
Directeur de Recherche I
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
Université René Descartes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Institut de Psychologie, Centre Universitaire de Boulogne
71, avenue Edouard Vaillant
92774 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex,
Franceemail: [email protected]
last updated: Jan 30th, 2005
