Information Services News 2008
09/12/2008
Eileen Brandreth has been appointed as Cardiff University's first Director of University Information Technology (IT), taking up the post on the 1st December.
03/12/2008
From 8th December 2008, the remaining student and staff users of the Pegasus/Squirrel email system were automatically migrated to CardiffMail.
13/10/2008
We've transformed our web pages dedicated to helping researchers with their library, IT and media resources requirements.
Take a look at the new-look Information Services for researchers
09/10/2008
... with the wireless network. The Cardiff University Wireless Network is available free to staff and students across Cathays campus and in signed hotspots on Heath campus.
07/10/2008
The Information Services Handbook introduces you to our key services and the brand new Quick Guide gives you the essentials to get you started with library, IT and Media Resources services - all in a handy credit-card size!
14/08/2008
Information Services welcomes back health care professionals from the University of Sierra Leone to discuss progress on improving access to health information for care workers and rural communities there.
31/07/2008
Special Collections and Archives (SCOLAR) is staging an exhibition from its historical collections relating to the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
03/07/2008
Get up to speed with plans for the future of our libraries with this new visual overview.
03/07/2008
Cardiff University hosts a prestigious national JISC conference on sustainable IT.
20/06/2008
Cathie Jackson, Senior Consultant - Information Literacy has been presented with the Wallace Breem Memorial Award for an outstanding contribution to law librarianship by the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL).
03/06/2008
Making the impossible possible - new supercomputer will open up new dimensions in research.
19/05/2008
The inaugural Cardiff University Architecture Library Prize has been won by undergraduate student Michael Potter.
16/05/2008
The University Library Service has purchased 553 new eBooks bringing our total collection to around 2400!
17/04/2008
Do you know how to use Google Sketchup? Do you have some free time? Then you could help the University win a Google competition and win yourself a prize!
19/03/2008
Nigel Morgan, Biosciences Subject Librarian in Information Services, has won the Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year Award.
12/03/2008
Developments in the Library Review are gathering pace and you can now keep up to date with what’s happening at the new Library Review web site - and read the Phase 2 report.
12/03/2008
Earlier this year, Nigel Morgan, Biosciences Subject Librarian, presented at the American Library Association's (ALA) conference in Philadelphia.
15/02/2008
February 4th - 8th was IT Safety Week at Cardiff University - find out how it went! And get information on how to protect your personal information when you're online.
11/02/2008
Information Services' new electronic information service European Sources Online was formally launched at the South Wales Europe Direct Information Service (SWEDIC) on the 31 January 2008.
08/02/2008
This Friday, a new 6 part pilot podcast series known as the 'Student Survival Guide to Writing a Good Essay' will be released on a weekly basis on the Information Services and Xpress Radio web sites.
05/02/2008
The Information Services Annual Report is published to make the work of INSRV more visible to the whole University Community.
04/02/2008
From February 4th the appearance of the Ovid set of databases has changed.
29/01/2008
Come along to our advice stand from Monday 4th to Friday 8th February for advice on how to protect yourself online.