How Can We Excite You About Moodle and the Portal?!

How can we excite you about 

Moodle and the Portal?

RCS uses Moodle for teaching and learning, course-related documentation, and the RCS Portal is for useful links relating to other aspects of our working environment.  Both are on web-pages only accessible to the RCS community.  

RCS staff and students are probably aware that there are special library pages on the RCS Portal.  Here's the link, just now:-

https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/library/

It gives you links to our resources, and lots of FAQs and other guides and mini-videos about different aspects of using the library.

If You Thought You Knew All About Us, there's an Important Update!

The Library Equivalent of "Pimp My Ride" ....

You need to know that the library portal is getting a makeover.  Somewhere between a substantial and an extreme makeover.  Much of the same information will be there (it was useful when we wrote it, and is still relevant) - but it will be in different places on a reformatted page.

Don't panic!

When it's all been rearranged and is nice and tidy - and live - we'll tell you all about it.  Today's posting is just to warn you that there are changes ahead.  Change is good.*

*Usually.  But on this occasion, we're pretty confident!

Ethical Drama Wins Edinburgh Theater Prize

On the last day of the Edinburgh Festival.  This New York Times feature will give you an insight into some of the new writing plays doing rather well at the moment ! Ideas for showcase anyone?? 

Shauna Macdonald as Libby, a struggling playwright, 

in “Mouthpiece.”  Credit Lara Cappelli

Click here for NYT feature. 

New York Times Article

By Steven McElroy

Published Aug. 23, 2019 Updated Aug. 25, 2019

Sharing News: Early Music Monographs (Books) Digitized!

This is a piece of news that we received via IAML (International Association of Music Libraries) and the MLA (the Music Library Association, an  American organisation).  Copying and pasting shamelessly, because this is news that's bursting to get out, we offer you this exciting snippet:-

"The Music Division of the Library of Congress has launched a new site with scans of approximately 2,000 books on music published before 1800.  The scans were made from microfilmed versions of the books.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/books-about-music-before-1800/about-this-collection/"

Karen C. Lund is the Digital Project Coordinator for the Music Division.

Tracing Book Details? COPAC is dead, bring on Library Hub Discover

If you've ever used Copac - the database that brought together all the university and national library catalogues in Britain - then this news affects you!

Copac has been replaced by Library Hub Discover.  It does the same thing (tracing books in libraries), but has other additional features too.  This is the link you'll go to, instead of the old Copac link:-

https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/

Read about the changeover - which happened at the end of July 2019 - here:-

• Jisc announces three new Library Services (newsflash)

"Library hub discover, library hub compare, and library hub cataloguing will make it easier for UK higher education libraries and researchers to access, discover and manage academic collections."