| Newsletter 10, October 1995 |
As an experiment, the video stock at Calverley Street library has been shelved in with the bookstock to create an integrated collection. We hope that this will help students to make more use of the videos - in browsing for a book on a topic, they will also find videos to complement it! The exception to this will be the stock of film and television videos which will remain in the present area on C3 (creating a Film and TV collection), and the Recent Documentary Collection (see below). Don't forget that videos such as the Video Arts series are held in the Special Collection behind the library counter, and we would encourage lecturers to place videos in this area if they would like to ensure access for a number of students or will be using them intensively for teaching. Videos at Brunswick and Beckett Park libraries remain unaffected.
A reminder about our Recent Documentary Collection. We get many requests for a "core" of popular news and current affairs, documentary, and science and arts programmes. The information in these is often relevant for only a short time after the programme has been shown. These programmes now appear on the library shelves in the same week they are broadcast and will be kept for three weeks. If a programme is need for a longer period of time, it will be catalogued and added to library stock. The programmes on our list for recording at present are:
If there is a series you think would be worth featuring in this collection, please contact Phil Todd (extn 3106), Rachel Clark (extn 3795), or Liz Waller (extn 3287).
Patents are an extremely important source of information. Did you realise that 80% of patent information appears in no other form? At a recent seminar, Peter Robson from the Patents Office in Leeds quoted the story of a researcher from an institution (which shall remain nameless) who asked for a search to be done on the process he had spent the past five years (and a great deal of his employer's money) researching. His idea had been patented, and therefore protected, six years previously! Does all this make you want to learn more about patents? - then read on!
What is the Patents Interactive Video?
The discs of the Patents Interactive Video package will take you from total ignorance of patents to someone who knows the full value and potential of patents as an information source and as a means of protecting intellectual property from exploitation by others. The material takes the form of a multi-media presentation with sound, graphics and video featuring personalities such as Clive Anderson and Carol Vorderman.
The library has three programmes which include:
The Patents Interactive Video is available at Calverley Street Library. For further information contact Liz Waller on extn 3287.
- Liz Waller