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The document provides instructions from a librarian to students on the services and resources available at the John R Jones Memorial Library, including information on the main library building, additional library locations for specific collections, operating hours, and details on accessing the catalog and journals online as well as ways to get help using the library's resources. The librarian also apologizes that the library is still undergoing renovations as they recently moved to a new building and are still working to finish certain areas and collections.

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The document provides instructions from a librarian to students on the services and resources available at the John R Jones Memorial Library, including information on the main library building, additional library locations for specific collections, operating hours, and details on accessing the catalog and journals online as well as ways to get help using the library's resources. The librarian also apologizes that the library is still undergoing renovations as they recently moved to a new building and are still working to finish certain areas and collections.

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Unit 1 - Predicting in tables

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Customer: I'm interested in buying a radio. Can you help me?
Assistant: Yes, of course. As you can see, we have this analogue radio on special
offer today for £29.99. They’re normally £35 . We’ve also got a much more modern
range of digital radios -those are over there.
C: Oh yes, digital radios, these are the modern ones.
A: Mmm, they’re the new technology. This one, for example, sells at £95. The
analogue radios are looking a bit old fashionable now.
C: But what is it that’s better about the digital ones?
A: Well, the main advantage with the analogue ones Is, of course, cheapless, but the
main advantage with the digital ones is the number and variety of stations you can get
-hundreds of them. All kinds of stations playing music - rock, pop, classical.
Everything in fact, as well as news, current affairs, comedy ... all sorts.
C: What about the sound quality?
A: The quality is very good. Under certain circumstances, you can get amazing sound
quality with analogue, but this is usually with very expensive radios which would
normally be part of a hi-fi sound system - we have lots of those on the first floor if
you're interested. The second great thing about digital is clarity: you get no
interference, well, less interference than with analogue. You get a very clear and
cloud sound.
C: Well, I want a radio for the flat I share with three other friends of mine.
A: In that case, you want something that will last. The analogues come with a
one-year guarantee but the digitals have a two-year guarantee which is extendable to
three years if you pay an extra £26. The main advantage with analogue is that it will
be turned off in a few years - we don’t know exactly when, but sometime.
C: But what about the batteries? I’ve heard that they use a lot of batteries.
A: That is probably the one advantage of the digital radios. The battery life is not very
long, but they all come with chargeable batteries, which really solves the problem.

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Librarian Good morning. My name is Mandy and I am going to tell you a little about
the John R Jones Memorial Library here at Blackwater College. We regard the library
as a gateway to the resources that you as students at the College may need. The
minority of you are full-time students - you may find you spend a lot of time here.
Even those of you who are part-time students will no doubt require the services too. I
hope that by the end of this short talk you will know the services the library has to
offer, including the website, and how to get any further help you may need.
Sorry, I forgot there may be a few distance learners on the tour today. I’ll explain
about the offline facilities and borrowing by post scheme a little later on. This is the
main site of the library, but we also have the Rivergate building and the Fieldhouse
Library.
The Rivergate building houses the geography resources, that is the book collection
and the journal collection, as well as the map collection. The hours and weeks of
opening of the Rivergate collection are the same as this building except that it’s
opened on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The Fieldhouse Library contains a
specialist collection of local history and if you want to visit it you will need to make
an appointment. Those two facilities are the only exceptions to the rule that all the
Blackwater College libraries are open 12 hours a day, six days a week, 365 days a
year. However, to gain access to the facilities you must have your ID card - no ID
card, no entry. We have heard all the stories and excuses and we don’t accept any of
them. Just remember your ID card!
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Librarian: Now, I must apologize for the mess you can see around you today.
Libraries should be quiet places, but unfortunately this is not currently the case here.
This new building has been here for only three months, and as a result we have not
quite finished moving in! So far, we have moved most of the book and journal
collections from the old library into this new building. There are three exceptions: we
are currently moving the Economics collection here, which should be installed by
tomorrow, and we will be moving the French Literature collection into this building
next week. But, as you can see, we are still building the new restaurant. We will finish
it, we hope, very shortly. We have finished the canteen, however, and students can
use it during the library closing hours.
We have recently updated 150 computer stations and we will be adding another one
hundred shortly, so that there will be plenty for everybody soon. Very shortly this
library will be one of the finest in this part of the state. Don’t forget that the library
isn’t just about academic books. In addition to the books and journals there is a wide
range of national newspapers available from the librarians on request. I’d like to
mention the different ways you can get help in using our resources. Don’t forget our
website at www.mblc.ac.us. There you can access the full catalogues, and also
journals if you have your password and ID number. Now, any questions?

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