New online book recommendation form

I would like to introduce the Balfour Library’s new online book recommendation form, which has kindly been created for me by the Clinical School Computing Service.

It is called ‘Recommend a book’ and it can be linked to from the ‘Quick links’ menu on the library website’s homepage at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/index.html, or you may wish to bookmark the direct URL which is http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/form/pubform.php. 

I would just like to reiterate here that book recommendations are always welcome (from members of the Department of Zoology) - please do use the new online form to recommend books that you would like to see in the library. We really do want to develop our collections to make them as relevant and well-used as possible so please do keep recommending titles suitable for purchase!

Your feedback on this new form would be most welcome.

New website for postgraduate students

 

I have created a new library website just for postgraduate students! 

I have named it ‘Postgraduate resources’ and you can link to it from the main library website’s homepage at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/index.html, or you may wish to bookmark the direct URL which is http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/pgrad.html. There is also a ‘Quick link’ to it (as ‘Balfour & Newton Libraries’) from the Department’s ‘Postgraduate Training’ website.

The left-hand menu provides links to relevant library websites or resources that I consider would be most useful to you, including the link to the new ‘Recommend a book’ website that the Clinical School Computing Service kindly created for me. I have also included a link to this form from the library homepage main menu. I would just like to reiterate here that book recommendations are always welcome - please do use the new online form to recommend books that you would like to see in the library!

At the top of the right-hand side of the website is a news feed for the Balfour Library News Blog – if you click on news headlines there you will be taken directly to the blog. I aim to update this on a regular basis (and it would also be great if you could sign up to the blog to receive automatic updates!). The blog is where I post all the important news regarding new digital resources (such as citation management tools, mobile apps, new e-books and journals), events, and new acquisitions, among many other things. I put it all here rather than bombarding you all with ‘allzoo’ emails, so don’t miss out!

Underneath this, there are ‘Quick links’ to other websites of interest, including to the library’s ‘Undergraduate resources’ page, in case you need more information about things as a supervisor.

In the main area of the website I have added the LibrarySearch widget so you can search the library catalogues for printed and electronic resources easily and quickly.

I hope that you will find this website useful; please do let me have your feedback on this and on the new online book recommendation form.