Library News for October 2015

Helping Hand

This month we were lucky to have a student worker join our team. Abdulla Alfazari took a break from Engineering to join the Library staff and we really appreciate all the work he was able to do when he was with us. Keep an eye out for Abdulla’s Wonderful Website recommendation in our November newsletter.

 

ADMC Research Centre

We have established a Research Centre next to the Print Zone in our library. This space is available for faculty and students who are working on research projects. It is a quiet study area and is equipped with print and electronic research resources suitable for Masters and PhD students. This room is also available to Year 4 Bachelor students working on research projects upon request.

IEEE Training: Making Your Research Visible 

IEEE & Naseej will be offering an interesting training session for researchers on Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at the Abu Dhabi Women's College Library (Training Room D117), from 2pm to 4pm.

Hazman Aziz, IEEE Client Services Manager, will be providing some valuable insight into how make your research more visible, and to improve your research profile:

• Using IEEE Xplore effectively & efficiently, with all the updated features to aid your literature review.
•  Using IEEE Xplore tools for knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Learning about simple Article Level Metrics in IEEE Xplore.
• Tips and pointers to publish for IEEE Conferences & Journals.
• Learning about IEEE Reference Style using IEEE Collabratec MS Word Plugin. n Finding the right publication & submit your paper via IEEE Xplore.

Space is limited, so make sure to book early! For reservations, please email Stephen Visagie at svisagie@hct.ac.ae

Library News for September 2015

Marhaba

Welcome back to ADMC Library and we hope all our new students have had a chance to visit the library, as well as our returning students. There have been a few nice changes in the library to start the new academic year.

Collaboration and Technology

Our new table in the main area has laptops available but will also allow you to bring your own device, plug in and get to work right away using inlaid power sockets and USB plugs. We also have a collaborative area which allows you to work in teams and connect to the LED screen. Together you can work on your projects, or showcase some work you have been doing to your friends or teacher. 

Some Reminders….

All our computers have a deep freeze program installed. That means any work you save to the desktop will be gone by the end of the day. Also any unsaved work will not be saved if the computers should suddenly shut down. Please save your work to D Drive right from the start if you are using a library computer to do your work.

The library can get pretty noisy sometimes. The ILC area is a space only for quiet study and we will always be checking that students working in this area continue to work quietly. So please use this area if you find the main space in the library is too noisy for you.