Locating London's Past

Locating London's Past is a website which "allows you tos search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map."

The project partners are the University of Hertfordshire, the Institute of Historical Research, and the University of Sheffield.

Professor Robert Shoemaker of the University of Sheffield talked about this new interactive map of 17th and 18th century London on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Do you visit other libraries for research or study?

SCONUL (the Society of College, National and University Libraries) is asking higher education staff, researchers and students about their use of libraries away from their home university.

Take 5 minutes to complete their survey and you can be entered into their prize draw

More details about this survey


Information about access to other libraries is available on the Library Gateway.

IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore has been upgraded and implemented a new Search History function. This includes enhanced search history recording capabilities and the ability to combine searches.

These features have been developed by popular demand but they need to be selected and switched on by individuals. The LIS ACES Faculty newsletter gives more detail if you are interested in using the new functions.

SHUgo 2.0

SHUgo version 2.0 is now available for staff and students on iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch). SHUgo is the University’s mobile app, and version 2.0 should be available for Android mobile devices in the next week.

The new version fixes a bug where some users could not access their Blackboard sites inside the app and has a new design and features including the new library interface.

See the http://elearningatshu.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/shugo-2-0-is-here/ blog for full details.

Do you teach distance learners?

If you teach on courses that have been validated as distance learning your students can use the library’s Distance Learner Support Service (DLSS).

As well as information in shuspace (search for "DLSS") this short YouTube screencast Using the DLSS at SHU will tell you (and them) what we can do.

There is lots of information that you can put into Blackboard modules about how students can access library facilities and use the DLSS. The D&S LIS Faculty Team can help you with this.

New holds service

If you have been notified that a book you have placed on hold is now ready, you will be able to collect it and issue it yourself instead of having to ask at the Helpdesk.

Holds can be collected from a newly designated area within Key Text at both learning centres which include self-issue machines.

This means that you can now pick up your holds anytime the learning centre is open, even overnight when the Helpdesk is not staffed. The system will only allow users who have placed the hold to issue it to themselves so there is no danger of someone else going off with your book.

How to add a paper to SHURA

SHURA is Sheffield Hallam University’s open access research repository. It is designed to make research more visible and manage information about research outputs. It is really easy to upload a paper to SHURA – just follow the steps in this screencast.



Visit our staff intranet pages for more information about SHURA, including the benefits of adding your work and copyright advice.