Back at TheOldPlace term has started and they're no doubt inundated as usual with students. We've another week to go before that. But our freshers are starting and I had my first 'induction' session to run this afternoon.

In fact these were computing students going directly into the third year from elsewhere (one owned up to having transferred from TheOldPlace though he wisely didn't admit to knowing or not knowing who I was). So a mix of what's new here and what do you need to know for your studies. The lecturer responsible stayed as well and both he and the students gave me some good feedback on what I'd covered so that was encouraging.

Spent some of the day exploring a database and experimenting with downloading interesting references to then import into some bibliographic software. I've not had much call for that before but think I'll have to be much more of an expert here. It was a very useful way of exploring library holdings and how well the article linking feature works (a tool we've bought into which attempts to locate any fulltext holdings of an article of interest in a database). I was quite impressed with it.