LBC/IRN archive now in MediaHub

Please see the message below from EDINA regarding new content in MediaHub.

We are delighted to announce that MediaHub now searches a significant audio collection, LBC/IRN.

The London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. It is the most important commercial radio archive in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period. This digitised collection focuses on the most noteworthy content – approximately 3,000 hours of recordings relating to news and current affairs. Digitisation of this resource was funded via the JISC Digitisation Programme.

The collection will be of interest to anyone studying, teaching or researching media related subject areas, giving access to eyewitness reports of moments in history as well as broader analysis of news events in discussion programmes and public information broadcasts. It makes an important contribution to charting the history of radio broadcasting, offering an alternative view to the BBC’s archive collection.

New platform for Intered

The publishers of Intered, Mark Allen, have recently launched a new online platform which contains all their journals.  The old platform will be unavailable as of May.

To access Intered:

• Visit: http://www.magonlinelibrary.com/
• Click sign in (top right hand corner), then select Sign in with Shibboleth
• Pick Education
• Pick relevant publication
• A list of all available issues will be displayed

The links in Moodle will be updated over this week and if librarians could check any wording alongside the resource that would be great.  I'm hoping to get a link which will take students directly to the college log in screen so I'll let you know when all the updates are done.

New feature on mySearch

EBSCO has added a new feature to EDS (mySearch) called Research Starters which presents short, citable summaries at the top of the results list for frequently searched topics.  Information is taken from sources such as Encyclopedia Britannica and Salem Press.  These summaries will give an overview of the topic and links to related information.

The idea behind Research Starters was to allow students to browse through content, and narrow down their topic while growing more accustomed to the database.

Dawsonera maintenance

Please see the message below from Dawson regarding downtime for Dawsonera.


Please be advised that we will be conducting essential system maintenance on dawsonera in the forthcoming weeks and, as a result, the system will be unavailable on Saturday 5th April between 7am and 10am. There will be a second period of downtime that will occur on the following Saturday 12th April between 7am and 10am.

We would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Swapping books between sites

As we are now moving more items between sites for displays and other swaps we need a better way of managing how items will be loaned at the 'new' site without losing the information regarding the original location.  As we all know the constant returning to avoid the 'In Transit' status is quite a nuisance!

Fortunately help is at hand and there is way to manage this sort of thing in Heritage by using a nifty little feature on the accession record.

On the Main, front tab of the Accession record you will see the information shown below.


At the side of the Loan type and Location fields are two radio buttons labelled Current and Home.

When a book or other item is being loaned for use at another site:

• click on the Home button and fill in the usual loan type and location for the item
• the information displayed when Current is selected can then be altered to reflect the 'new' site
• when the item is returned simply change the Current information to match the information in the Home selection.

This means you will be able to issue and return the items at the 'new' site without Heritage placing the item In Transit.  Reports can also be run on the Current and Home location fields if necessary to track down items that have been 'misplaced' during this process.