Welcome to CityLibrary News. Keep up to date with all the latest about new resources and services from the library.
The Business Library at Bunhill Row has partially reopened to staff and students for Click & Collect items and bookable study spaces.
While we continue to provide comprehensive online support via chat, Ask Us and online appointments, we are also introducing limited access to study spaces and PCs, as well as to requesting items via a Click & Collect service. Continue reading Business Library at Bunhill Row now open
The buildings might be closed but CityLibrary is most definitely open. Whatever help you need accessing and using Library resources and services, there are lots of ways you can get it, including:
Online Chat
We have extended our Online Chat service so you can now speak to a member of Library staff online from 9am to 5pm during weekdays. You can find the Online Chat box via the Library homepage.
Ask Us
When Online Chat isn’t available, you can still ask questions and find answers using our Ask Us service. If you can’t find an answer to your question straight away, simply submit a new question and we’ll get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
Appointments with a Subject Librarian
Our Subject Librarians are available for appointments via Teams or telephone. Book an appointment online or contact your Subject Librarian to arrange a suitable date/time.
Research support
If you need help with your PhD research project, guidance on Open Access publishing via City Research Online or advice relating to Copyright, you can contact a member of our Research Support Team.
Library Guides
Find advice, guidance, tips and useful links via our Library Guides, including subject-specific pages for each School, and information on the types of services and resources available.
CityLibrary News and Social media
Keep up-to-date with all things Library related by subscribing to CityLibrary News or following us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.
Finally, as ever, you can email library@city.ac.uk with your questions, comments and suggestions and use our online feedback form too.
Keep taking care of yourselves, and each other.
City’s Library Services Team has been awarded the Customer Service Excellence (CSE) Standard. The standard assesses a huge number of elements and criteria, including feedback from library users, to determine the highest quality service.
This is something we could not have achieved if it was not for the help of our wonderful customers, both students and staff, who assisted in talking with the CSE assessors and who help us run a successful service in different ways.
Social Media
Our assessors picked up on several factors relating to our relationship with our students. Our social media game was praised as being beyond the standard and, without your interaction with our tweets and posts on CityLibrary News, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, these efforts would be wasted – so thank you so much for interacting with us online as well as in person.
Continous Improvement
We were also commended on our commitment to continuous improvement where, really, it is you who drive this, you who make us a success. Without your engagement with our Feedback pop-ups, for example, we would not know how we do better – because it is what You Say that We Do. We are currently looking at the feedback we received last month but you can let us know at any time what we are doing well and what are not doing well at our Help Desks where you can talk to our staff or fill out a form.
So thank you for making us a Customer Service Excellence success!
Thank you for helping us celebrate 125 years of City. As our anniversary year draws to a close we would like to remind you that Part 2 of the exhibition The Story of City: life, learning and legacy will run until the end of December, so please visit while you can. The exhibition is open to all and is located at the foot of the Great Staircase in the Pavilion, University Building.
The second part of the exhibition explores everyday life during the early years of the Institute. Find out more about the academic and social activities of the Institute. Learn about the origins of Student Union Mascot, King Carrot and travel back to the 1896 opening to the general public of Clerkenwell who enjoyed access to the swimming baths and entertainments in the Great Hall.
On display are items from the City Archive including student exercise books and early prospectus. You can also see a reproduction of the time capsule which was buried under the Foundation Stone of the College Building in 1894. Visit the online exhibition where you can find out more and examine in detail digital replicas of a selection of documents, such as this 1923 laboratory workbook of Telegraphy student Philip de la Haye le Marquand.
We would love to hear your thoughts on the exhibition, please share your feedback or your memories of City in the comments below.
The Northampton Square and Cass libraries will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the January exam period, from Thursday 2nd January to Friday 17th January, 2020.
Library staff will be available at Help Desks and roving around as usual, with a security team in place overnight.
Detailed opening hours can be found on the Library website.
We would like to thank everyone in advance for showing consideration to local residents when entering and exiting the buildings during 24/7 opening.
If you have any questions or comments about 24/7 opening, please contact our User Services Team.
Print and e-book collections for School of Health Sciences students have been updated and expanded over the summer.
Brand new titles, latest editions, plus extra copies of essential titles were ordered, processed and catalogued and are now available for you to access or borrow.
Watch out for the latest version of your favourite textbook on the shelves or available online via CityLibrary Search.
For more information on using e-books, have a look at our E-books Guide.
It’s now easier than ever to check if the articles you’ve found on PubMed are available in full-text via CityLibrary.
Use the direct link to PubMed on the Databases A-Z and each time you search and select an article, look for the ‘isit@citylibrary’ link on the top right-hand side of the screen. This link will then:
If you have registered for an account with PubMed you can also change your settings by logging-in to MyNCBI and changing the Outside Tool setting.
If you have any problems accessing full-text articles drop us an email, Ask Us or speak to a member of staff at a Help Desk during staffed hours.
Exciting news! Westlaw has been updated to include some brand new and improved features, with the new platform going live from today. City students and staff will still be able to log-in directly using your username and password.
Some of the changes include:
Our Law Librarian Rob will be running introductory workshops to help you get to know the new layout:
| Tuesday 13th August 1-2pm | AG24a | Register Online |
| Thursday 15th August 2-3pm | Princeton Street, Computer Room | Register Online |
| Wednesday 2nd October 3-4pm | Northampton Square Library, Level 3 Teaching Room | Register Online |
| Thursday 3rd October 2-3pm | Princeton Street, Computer Room | Register Online |
Westlaw are also running online introductory training sessions on using the new platform – see below for dates and links where you can sign up for the training:
Westlaw is a key resource which covers cases, legislation, journal articles and abstracts, full-text practitioner books and commentary: it also contains the Legal Journals Index of UK legal periodicals dating back to 1986.
Please contact lawlibrary@city.ac.uk for more information about Westlaw or if you have any questions about using the new platform.
Here at CityLibrary we think it’s important to remind all of our students and staff about the importance of self-care during the exams and assessment period. Working hard to achieve excellent results can be tough, both mentally and physically. That’s why we like to encourage everyone to #TakeABreak.
Whether you go for a walk, get some fresh air, switch off your smartphone for half an hour, or go home to get some sleep, it’s crucial to look after yourself and to find of ways of managing the stress you’ll experience as best as you can.
If you want, you can distract yourself for a while with one of our puzzling puzzles or our colourful colouring-in sheets:
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This year we’re running weekly prize draws, so tweet us your artistic achievements or hand-in your completed copies at one of our Help Desks (remembering to include your name and City email) and you could win £10 print credit for your efforts.
We’d also recommend you take advantage of the range of support services and resources available to you:
And please remember: friends, colleagues, staff, there are loads of people around wanting to help you through the process as best they can; try not to let everything overwhelm you, talk to someone, get support, seek advice – you will get there in the end.
Good luck everyone.
The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758.
From 1758 to 1789, Edmund Burke was the editor and main contributor to this publication. The Annual Register, as well as being a record of events, used to include reviews of important books, reproduction of state papers, historical sketches, poetry and observations on natural history.
After 1775, the history section of the Annual Register increased significantly and became the main focus of the publication. In the 1920s, the content of the Annual Register changed to the format that it is still used today, opening with the history of Britain, followed by a section on foreign history, then chronicles of events, a brief retrospective of the year’s cultural and economic developments, and obituaries of esteemed people who died in the year.
City, University of London Library provides access to the online version of the Annual Register, which includes each volume published since 1758.
The Annual Register is a valuable source of information for History, International Politics and Journalism students.
You can browse the different volumes of the publication, check the table of content and open the PDF of the relevant chapter. Alternatively enter your keywords to retrieve all the documents, included in the Annual Register, that focus on the topic of your research.
