Le Gal IT

It’s become even easier to keep in touch with your friendly staff at the Bodleian Law Library. In addition to more traditional methods, including walking up to the enquiry desk to converse face-to-face, calling us on the phone or sending us an email, we now offer the additional options of IM, twitter and facebook. In a related development, our cycle parking arrangements on the ground floor have recently been admired, blogged and commented upon.

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to prevent this blog from sitting idle for an entire year! Looking at the kneecaps on the skeleton image in my first post reminds me of how mine feel some days after cycling to work. At least the days of slippery icy road surfaces may be over, with spring approaching and all. Here in the Law Library, we are in Week 6 of Hilary term and the reading room is therefore quite busy. To keep us entertained, last week someone managed to set the rotation of a monitor in one of our computer rooms to 180 degrees, causing another reader to report at the enquiry desk that the picture on a monitor was “upside-down”. Which indeed it was. I’ve now made it a little harder to change the rotation setting, although probably not impossible for the very determined… how we laughed.

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It seems like a good moment for the first post to this blog I set up with JISC Involve recently - yesterday I attended the afternoon portion of the Web 2.0 event for OULS staff. I was sorry to miss the morning sessions as there were very positive reviews from those who were there. Angela Carritt and Steven Eyre and I gave a presentation on the subject of RSS feeds and podcasts. The event was held at the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre at Oxford, and a highlight was giving our presentation to a roomful of OULS staff - and two skeletons.

skeleton illustration courtesy of flickr user polapix

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