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Copyright Information Centre
Esther Hoorn co-wrote a report on the developments in the digital learning and working environment of higher education, which was presented during the SURF Education Days. Together with a lawyer from Nijmegen, under the auspices of the VSNU, she prepared the administrative ground for the negotiations on the new reader regulation and an investigation into [...]
Learning Grid
The Learning Grid (LG) project started off officially in 2012. The MT determined that the LG will be located on the 1st floor of the UB, incorporating half of room 190 (westside), the MOC and rooms 121 and 124. The rooms in the ‘postzegelpand’ (‘stamp building’, rooms 126, 128 and 107) will be renovated and [...]
‘Showcase’ project
Excellent, prominent researchers, capable of communicating their passion to students and society, determine the success of the University of Groningen as a research institution. Researchers operate in an increasingly competitive environment, which places higher and higher demands not only on quality and performance, but also on transparency and cooperation (both national and international). Improving the [...]
Course of the item
In the library world, the ‘course of the item’ is a well-known concept. This refers to every step in the process from the moment of placing an order to the moment of making the document available to the user. In 2012, a PhD student examined the efficiency of the ‘course of the item’. It turned [...]
Album Promotorum Universitatis Groninganae
The Album Promotorum Universitatis Groninganae is a database containing information about PhD graduates of the University of Groningen from 1914 to the present. The list contains personal details (name, years of birth and death, place of birth, gender), thesis title, discipline, supervisors, and the location of the thesis within the collection, sometimes with a link [...]
Relocating collections and reorganizing journals
In 2012, the Book Management team (Stacks and Dispatch) put tremendous effort into reorganizing journals (e.g. those also in JSTOR) in order to create shelf space for journals from the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Library. The merger of the libraries of FEB, FRW, and FWN into the Zernike Library involved a great deal of work [...]
Relocation of the Protestant Theological University Kampen collection to the Zernike stacks
(Nederlands) In de zomermaanden is een deel van de collectie van de bibliotheek van de PThU uit Kampen ingehuisd. Er was een strekkende kilometer gereserveerd voor deze collectie. De boeken staan alleen vermeld in de
Temporary Self-Service Project begins
In the run-up to the implementation of full self-service, a self-service section has been created next to the current Loans Desk. One or more self-service machines make it possible for most services to continue at weekends and evenings without the need for the Loans Desk to be staffed. Since the introduction of this self-service system [...]
Launch of the Stacks Capacity project
The UB stacks are practically full; with an estimated 2 out of the 75 km of shelf space left, the currently available stack space is scarce. Since the UB opened its doors in 1985, space has not really been an issue; there was sufficient room for growth, and when the UB stacks threatened to fill [...]
The Stacks Logistics project
The Stacks Logistics project, launched in 2012, has led the Book Management team to adopt a different working method as of 1 February 2013. The team now collects requested items in one-hour blocks, with nine rounds in total. The plan is to gradually reduce the number of rounds even further by introducing (temporary) self-service. They [...]