Have you ever wondered why a library resource is not working or wanted to check if there is any upcoming system maintenance? You can now quickly do so, by checking our Current status of library services and resources page! We knew that having a centralised place to check would make your life easier, so we worked hard to produce a tool that would clearly show you the status of Library Services’ core systems and services. So now, in one place, we are able to highlight to you known issues and periods of service disruption, and provide you with information on alternatives…
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Library systems downtime
Posted in Cass, Downtime, GIP, IC, NSQ, Online Resources, and Service Announcements
We are upgrading our library systems overnight Monday 16th – Tuesday 17th December. As a result you may experience intermittent periods of downtime during which you will be unable to: login to online resources see book availability through CityLibrary Search request items, or login to your CityLibrary Account to renew items. Please plan ahead to conduct research and manage your account ahead of this time.
Autumn Specials
Posted in Cass, Cass Business School, NSQ, Online Resources, School of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, and Workshops
This autumn Library Services will host a series of drop-in sessions and workshops at the Northampton Square and Cass Libraries. These sessions form our Library Services Autumn Specials. They will be an excellent opportunity to meet the people behind these resources and learn about how to get more out of library resources. See the table below for dates and times of each session. Select the links to find out more information and book your place. Autumn Specials at Northampton Square Event Date Time Location Successful Employability with the Financial Times Tuesday 24th September 12-12:30pm A110 College Building Financial Times…
New and updated Library Guides for Health Sciences
Posted in Library Guides, and School of Health Sciences
We are excited to announce Governmental, news and statistical resources, a new Library Guide for School of Health Sciences students, researchers and academics. It provides access to: Governmental websites from the Department of Health & Social Care and its associated agencies such as the Care Quality Commission and Public Health England Websites covering health issues from local authorities in North East London. Key health ‘think tanks’ including The King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust Links to current awareness services such as NHS England Bulletins UK and global health statistics Health indicator resources such as the National Indicator Library. The guide formally known…
Attention Bloomberg users: Bloomberg has delivered a new API that you can use to download and save data from Bloomberg through the Bloomberg Excel Add-in. Introducing: Bloomberg Query Language (BQL). It works by: Consolidating fields Reducing the number of tickers you have to list Aggregating data Why use it? You can do more in Bloomberg without hitting Bloomberg’s download limit. This is because BQL uses much less data than the traditional way of using data in Bloomberg. Rather than taking the raw data and doing the calculations in Excel or another application, Bloomberg does the calculations for you…