Library resources not enough, few text books,
reservation system is not working properly.
Thank you for your comment I understand your
frustration in trying to source resources for your work and the items are out
on loan. This is compounded if there is a waiting list for the items you put
reservations on.
The Academic Liaison Librarians for your
course are Avtar Natt and Alan Bullimore
They have created a new books for Business
list for you to look at to check on the new titles coming into stock. Please
follow this link
then click on "Business"
They have also created a Subject Guide which
is very useful when planning your work:
Last year the University made a significant additional investment in
Library materials which has provided more print copies of core essential
reading The investment also purchased more e books to provide wider reading
around your subject..
http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/libraryservices/news/Books
http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/libraryservices/news/Books
If you having problems
finding materials for your studies I would advise you to contact your Academic
Liaison Librarian urgently. We need ensure you are using the most effective
search strategies to find resources
Journal articles should also be used for latest
information on marketing, if you cannot get the print materials you want why
not limit your catalogue searching to e-books ? Book an appointment with
your Academic Liaison Librarian and they will explore these options with you.
An order for 14 significant business ebooks was put on yesterday –
so they should be in stock after Christmas.
Regarding your comments on
the Reservations service: first of all I apologise for the inconvenience caused
by these circumstances.
We take care to ensure
that important matters such as this are properly managed, although on this
occasion we clearly have not succeeded in meeting your expectations.
In light of this we
have decided to review our sanctions regime with all the stake holders. This
may take some time - so I cannot offer an immediate solution but we would like
to have a long term effective solution to this problem We hope this is
acceptable to you.
As a Masters student
you are expected to buy a few books for University yourself. Learning Resources
does buy multiple copies of core texts
I would advise you to
contiunue making use of the Reservation service to ensure you get to borrow the
core texts
In addition you might
like to know that the University is undertaking a medium term project called
readinglists (readinglists.beds.ac.uk)to change the focus and role of reading
lists from just a list of citations to a more relevant and accessible
document. A reading list should tell you what you should be reading and
when during your course and as far as possible making that material accessible
to you. We are working towards the latter either by obtaining in full
text (the whole book or a chapter or article) and making it available on BREO
or ensuring we have acceptable numbers of print copies in the library using
appropriate loan statuses to try and ensure everyone on the course has the
opportunity to access and use the book when they need to
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