New Social Learning Space at Putteridge Bury

The social learning space at Putteridge Bury is open and all students are invited to use this new space.  

Evergreen children's books

The Bookseller has just published a list of the top selling children's books.  The list looks at titles which have never fallen out of the top 5,000 selling books (by ISBN) from 1995-2005.  The Nielson BookScan (from which the data has been collated) is the book world's equivalent of the Billboard chart for music.  

Amazingly, Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone still sells 650 copies per week, 13 years after it was originally published.  

The Teaching Practice collection has all but 4 of the books listed.  And we will buy the missing titles in August.  We also have the DVD and story sacks for The Gruffalo (shown below).

Weekend 10th & 11th April - electrical shutdown

Extensive building works are taking place at the Luton campus at the moment as part of the £70 million project.  

Unfortunately, this is going to cause problems between Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th April 2010 because electricity at the Park Square site will be shutdown.  This means

• The Library Catalogue will be unavailable  
• External and internal access to databases, e-journals, e-books and Library self service functions from the Library Catalogue will also be unavailable.

Most of the Digital Library resources will still be accessible at: http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/libinfo/electrics.  This inclues Education Research Complete and the main electronic journal collections like Academic Search Elite and EBSCOhost ejournals (accounting over 85% of our online journals).  Unfortunately, British Education Index and ERIC will not be accessible but Education Research Complete and PsycInfo are good alternatives.

Book return post box

The book return post box at Polhill Library will be unavailable from Wednesday 7th April for three weeks. This is so building work can commence on installing an automated book return system. This will enable books to be removed from your Library account immediately. Sorry for any inconvenience or disruption caused. Books can be returned via the help desk during this period (or renewed online via the library catalogue or by telephoning the renewals line on 01582 743262).

Numicon Kit Two

The LRC at Polhill has recently purchased the Numicon Kit Two. The pack is available in the Teaching Practice room on the top floor of the Library at 510.71 NUM. It contains a teaching binder, shapes, feely bag, spinners, display number line, 10s number line, card 1-100 number track, 0-100 table-top number line, post box, numeral cards, trays for number rods and number rod track.

Extended weekend opening hours at Park Square

From Friday 5 March to Friday 11th June 2010, the opening hours at Park Square will be extended during the weekends.   

Fridays:  IT Suite and SLS open to 02.00

Saturdays and Sundays:  IT Suite and SLS open to 22.00

 

Please note that for Easter weekend (Thur April 1 - Tue April 6 2010) the Park Square University Buildings are closed.

 

When the new academic year commences (for undergraduates) the extended weekend opening hours will resume (from Friday October 8th).

Primary School Library Charter

The School Library Association has launched the Primary School Library Charter.

The twelve page booklet gives advice on how to set up and run a primary school library and is freely available as a PDF download.