Top e-books in Februrary

Business and Beauty Therapy hold on to places 1 and 2 in February's top ten e-books by pages viewed.  We have new entries for performing arts and teaching this month - will your e-book make it into next month's top ten...

Here's February's chart:

2757   BTEC Level 3 National Business Book 1
721     Beauty therapy. - 3rd ed. 
565     Travel & tourism for BTEC Level 3 National Book 1
238     Act now! a step-by-step guide to becoming a working actor
131     E-business and e-commerce management
123     Management and organisational behaviour
120     Key studies in psychology    
116     Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice
101     Teaching today
99       Marketing communications: interactivity, communities and content
   

The top downloaded books for February were:

16 Management and organisational behaviour
6   Practical counselling and helping skills
4   Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice
4   BTEC Level 3 National in IT

At the Movies for World Book Week

This years World Book Week theme is At the Movies!

To celebrate this staff and students have created Top Lists of Books & Films to inspire your next film or fiction fix!


Top 10 Books adapted into Films chosen by LRC Staff

• One Day by David Nicholls
• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
• To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
• Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

Top 10 Films adapted from Books chosen by Adam Nelson (Media Tutor) 

• Once Upon a Time in America - Based on 'The Hoods' by Harry Grey
• Blade Runner - Based on 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Phillip K. Dick
• Let the Right One In - Based on the book of the same name by John Avijde Lindqvist
•  Jaws - based on the book of the same name by Peter Benchley
• The Godfather - based on the book of the same name by Mario Puzo (This film is better than the book in my opinion)
• City of God - based on the book of the same name by Paulo Lins
• There Will Be Blood - based on 'Oil!' by Upton Sinclair
•  2001: A Space Odyssey - based on the book of the same name by Arthur C. Clarke
• Shawshank Redemption - based on 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption' by Stephen King
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - based on the book of the same name by Ron Hansen

25 Films adapted from Books chosen by BTEC Media Students

• The Godfather
• The Dark Knight
• You Only Live Twice
• Jaws
• Silence of the Lambs
• Shawshank Redemption
• There Will Be Blood
• Clockwork Orange
• 12 Angry Men
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 
• Blade Runner 
• Fight Club 
• American Beauty
• Raging Bull 
• Forrest Gump
• Goodfellas 
• American Psycho 
• The Last King of Scotland 
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 
• The Gomorrah 
• The Green Mile 
• The Prestige 
• The Shining 
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
• First Blood

Pop in throughout the week to tells us yours!

Top e-books in January

Business hold on to several positions in January's top ten e-books by pages viewed.  Well done to Beauty Therapy and Tourism for managing to hang on to their top spots and keep the management books at bay!

Here's January's chart:

5504   BTEC Level 3 National Business Book 1
1203   Beauty therapy. - 3rd ed. 
782     BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2
691     Travel & tourism for BTEC Level 3 National Book 2
540     Exploring corporate strategy: text and cases
397     Aromatherapy : therapy basics     
323     The business plan workbook
323     Travel & tourism for BTEC Level 3 National Book 1
314     Beauty therapy fact file
265     Management   

The top downloaded books for January were:

14  Marketing management
7   Special educational needs, inclusion and diversity
5   Collective animal behaviour
5   Management
5   Practical counselling skills

Self issue is coming to GC LRC!

I am sure you are all used to using self service by now. It seems to be everywhere from the Post Office to Supermarkets and now it is coming to your LRC!

This exciting project will improve customer service by giving staff and students the choice of avoiding queues to issue and return their books.  The system uses RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) that will allow us to further develop stock management and control.

In order to make self issue a reality the LRC staff have been incredibly busy processing the stock over the last 7 weeks. We have also been closed for 3 days over half-term to install our new security gates.

On the left you can see Debbie pretending to steal a book, which makes the new gates light up red. The gates are also smart and will be able to give the us much more accurate visitor statistics than our old ones.

The self issue kiosk has also been delivered (photo on the right).

The kiosk allows you to return, renew and issue LRC resources. The kiosk is currently being housed in Meeting Room 2 so that LRC staff can be trained in how to use it as well as giving us time to make sure it is configured correctly before it goes live after Easter.

In the mean time we have a RFID pad set up at the issue desk so we can issue and return your books for you without the alarm going off.

Please bear with us during this transition as staff get used to the new system.

More information and updates on how the project is going will be on the blog soon!

Half term opening

Please note: All three LRCs will be CLOSED on Friday 15 February for staff training.

The LRCs will be open at the following times over half term.

Farnham College

Monday - Tuesday           9.00 - 5.00

Wednesday - Friday        CLOSED

Guildford College

Monday - Wednesday     CLOSED

Thursday - Friday            9.30 - 4.30

Merrist Wood

Monday - Friday              9.30 - 4.30

Snow renewals

As the snow is coming down outside and many of you will find it difficult or impossible to get into college today the LRCs have renewed any items due back today.

All 1 day loan items (mainly DVDs) are now due back on Monday 21 January.

All other items have been renewed to Friday 25 January.

Stay safe everyone.

Top e-books in December

Business once again hold onto top spot in the pages viewed chart for last month with Beauty Therapy, Tourism & Hospitality, and Photography taking the other places in the top ten.  In our downloads chart Counselling have claimed top spot this time round.

Here's November's chart:

8269   BTEC Level 3 National Business Book 1
1665   BTEC Level 3 Business Book 2
587     Beauty therapy. - 3rd ed.
342     The business plan workbook
329     Aromatherapy : therapy basics
281     Armstrong's handbook of human resource management practice     
219     Human resources management in the hospitality industry
209     Travel & tourism for BTEC Level 3 National Book 1
144     Langford's basic photography
137     Business law   

The top downloaded books for December were:

5   A life of one's own
3   Special educational needs, inclusion and diversity
3   BTEC First Business: Level 2
3   BTEC Level 3 National Business Book 1