PINs Week at GC LRC

Last week was PINs week at Guildford College LRC and you may have noticed staff wearing the badges in the picture to the right.

We were using to week to promote that students and staff can use our Online Catalogue Heritage to renew, reserve and even review books. This can help you to manage your loans and avoid having to pay fines for overdue books.

Just pop along to the Heritage website and enter your student number and PIN in the log in box:

If you haven’t got a Heritage PIN just ask a member of LRC staff and they can set you one up.

Have you found a book really useful or enjoyable? Why not check out our previous blog post 'Reviewing resources on Heritage' and write a review. If you are a tutor, you can use this facility to recommend useful books to your students.

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.