20 April 2012

Reviewing resources on Heritage

A relatively new feature on our online catalogue, Heritage, is the ability to rate and review resources that you have enjoyed or think may benefit other library users. This could be a good film that you have seen, a great fiction book or a really useful textbook for students to use on their course. It is really simple to use and is very similar to the feature on Amazon where customers rate and review certain items, here is how you do it:
·         First you need to head to our online catalogue at www.guildford.ac.uk/heritage
·         You then need to log in on the right hand side using your reader code and pin number. Your reader code is your student number or, for staff, your network log in e.g. asmith, a library pin can be requested from the LRC if you don’t have one.
·         Now that you are logged in you can search for a resource that you want to review. Once you have found the item you want to review just click on the ‘create a review’ button.

·         You can now rate your resource out of 5 stars and write a small description about what you thought of the resource.
·         Once you have submitted a review other library users can see what you have written about the item as it will appear on the catalogue record

This is a really useful tool and allows users to see which books are really good and will also warn people of any books or films that are worth a miss! It is also a really good tool for tutors to recommend texts to students and pin point any useful chapters.

03 April 2012

Top E-Books in March

Here are the top 10 e-books for March based on pages viewed.

Business are at the top once again but Equine, Counselling, IT, and Tourism are in there too. 

Pages   Title

3143    BTEC Level 3 National Business Book 1
700      Book 1: BTEC National Business
510      Organisational Behaviour
480      Horse and Stable Management
466      Travel & Tourism for BTEC Level 3 National Book 1
361      BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2
298      Business and Administration NVQ Level 2
265      Beyond Blame
262      Teaching Today
245      Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law