Discover More with Discover More

May 16, 2012 in Learning Services by Helen Bell | No comments

The University Library provides access to high quality academic information and searching Discover More will help you make that connection. Don’t miss out on all the information that is available to you.

Discover More is a good starting point for finding information in your subject area.

From one search you are searching the details of the entire library collection of books and also full text peer reviewed journal articles.

Discover More is easily accessed from the University’s Library catalogue.

The best way to see how it works is to have a go. Try a quick search on Discover More today!

Look forward to hearing from you at Librarian@edgehill.ac.uk if you have any comments/questions.

University Library – changes to opening hours

May 13, 2012 in Buildings and Facilities, Customer Services, Learning Services, Library by Cathy Carey | No comments

Please be aware the opening hours for the University Library change from Monday 14th May to

Monday to Friday 8.00am – 9pm

Saturday and Sunday 11am – 6pm 

Midnight opening has now ended for this academic year but we plan to offer it again from September.

Opening hours for all our sites can be found on our website

 

Cathy Carey

Facilities Coordinator

There’s still time to tell us what you think!

May 10, 2012 in Buildings and Facilities, Customer Services, Learning Services, Library by Helen Jamieson | No comments

Learning Services are committed to continuously improving our facilities and services and one of the ways we do this is by listening to your feedback.

Please take a minute of your time to answer some questions about your experience of the library.

Complete our 60 second survey here:

http://surveys.edgehill.ac.uk/librarysurvey2012

Your feedback will help us to improve our services to you.

Entries will be entered into a prize draw to receive one of twenty funky USB wristbands.

 

Helen Jamieson, Customer Services Manager

 

Monday 7th May – We are open!!!

May 7, 2012 in Books, Buildings and Facilities, Customer Services, Learning Services, Library, Resources by Cathy Carey | No comments

If you’re looking to get some extra work done before your exams start dont forget the University Library is open today.

9.00am – 7.00pm

You can access all the Library resources, computers and study spaces as well as the Welcome Desk on the Ground Floor. Our helpline is also available during these hours on 01695 584286

Cathy Carey

Facilities Coordinator

Bank Holiday opening – Monday 7th May

May 4, 2012 in Books, Buildings and Facilities, Customer Services, Learning Services, Library, Resources by Cathy Carey | No comments

The University Library at Ormskirk will be open on Bank Holiday Monday 7th May

8.45am – 7.00pm

Our helpline is also available during these hours on 01695 584286.

The LINC Open Access PC room can be accessed 24-7 with an appropriate UniCard.

Cathy Carey

Facilities Coordinator

What’s been happening in our HD Television Studio?

May 3, 2012 in Learning Services, Media by Donald Moffatt | No comments

We have had a busy few months in the television studio, with it being heavily used by the Media students, academics and departments across the University. The studio has been running flat out from 0900 to 17:00 Monday to Friday!

Here are just a few of the highlights:

In terms of students, Film and TV students have been producing light entertainment shows and children’s television shows, with the 3rd year students finishing and polishing their final projects. There are also some of our students who have been producing content for a magazine style show called ‘Lancashire Fresh Event’, and this is tied to producing content for Bay TV.

Two students within the Department of Media, James Ibbitson and Kevin Robinson have produced a film called “A Fall From Grace” which is a political drama set in the months following the end of the Second World War.  Internal production shoots took place within our HD studio and the staff common room, it’s a very professional piece of work, and has its own website that was designed by the 2 students to promote their work. Visit their website to see. www.afallfromgrace.co.uk

For those as old as me who remember the band Hawkwind, it was exciting to have the band member, Steve Bainbridge in the studio.  He was being interviewed by Steve Jansen, screen writer and author; this was for a creative writing project.

We have also been working with Faculty of Health and Social Care staff who have used the studio to produce content to support carers and children with disabilities.

Media Academics have been utilising the facilities to provide content for promotional information, and we are seeing requests from other areas of the university, HR being one of the departments taking advantage of new media, to promote what it’s like working for Edge Hill University, getting the word out there into the employment market place.

If you would like to learn more about what we do or need help with Media or ICT you can contact us at lsmedia@edgehill.ac.uk

 

Donald Moffatt

Media Technology Development Manager

 

 

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Taking a fresh look at your reading list: a workshop for staff

April 30, 2012 in Learning Services by Andy Tomkins | No comments

Thursday 3rd May 11am-12pm

This workshop will cover:

  • how to search library resources for the latest material in order to update reading lists;
  • how to liaise with Learning Services to ensure that your reading lists are made accessible to students.

To book a place on this workshop visit the Staff Development wiki at https://go.edgehill.ac.uk/apps/pls/apex/f?p=186:2:::NO:2:P2_EVENT_ID:1161

Andy Tomkins

Academic Liaison Librarian

Exciting new editing software from Avid

April 27, 2012 in Learning Services, Media by Donald Moffatt | No comments

Avid is here!!. Our new editing software has now arrived and is up and running.  For those of you who don’t not what we are promoting…It’s the latest industry standard professional editing systems designed and built by Avid, there was a slight delay in getting these installed as we were holding out for the latest software.

The new software has been built from the ground up, and for the technical among you…. this is based on a very powerful PC, with a Windows 7 operating system, running a 64 bit architecture, with Avid Media Composer v. 6.0 software. This allows for multi-layering of complex effects, with added colour correction, with minimum rendering time.

These new systems are based with our other editing booths, 2nd Floor in the LINC building.  Avid media composer has been around in industry for a very long time, and is an established editing platform for media industry editors.  It is packed with high end tool sets that allow professional finishing to be accomplished.  Our systems also have an internal 1Tb media drive, separate from the operating system hard drive, so it’s capable of handling large media projects. It also allows imports of Pro-tools projects, allowing you to finish in surround sound 5.1 or 7.1.

Avid has some amazing opportunities for collaborative working.  Within industry, the large broadcasters have Avid and Pro-tools sitting on large shared media networked storage solutions, for example, the Avid ISIS solution.  Here is an example of how they pull it all together…one or more editors can be working on the same project, while the audio dubbing editor sitting on the pro-tools system, finishes the audio.  When the project is finalised, it can then be colour graded for transmission, and all this is achieved within the Avid ISIS network.

In broadcasting, they will use a totally file based work flow and nothing has to leave the system, unless the customer requires a tape copy.  Media that needs to be kept is then placed into deep archive for retrieval at a later date.  These systems can handle up to 640 Tb of raw storage.

So for the budding editors amongst you, why not come along and take a look at these new systems, and if you want to hone your skills on the latest offering from Avid, the Media Development team based in the LINC, will be able to support you in using our new Avid systems.

If you would like to learn more about what we do or need help with Media or ICT you can contact us at lsmedia@edgehill.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

Donald Moffatt

Media Technology Development Manager

 

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Exam Technique Session

April 26, 2012 in Academic Skills, Learning Services by Iain Gannon | No comments

30 April 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Staff Development Room 2nd floor LINC building

Session will aim to provide an overview of exam technique and revision skills, in particular, time management and note taking skills which may be beneficial within the examination environment.

To book on to the session please go to:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1796355949

Iain Gannon – Academic Skills Officer for Health

Give us your feedback! We want to know about your experience of using the library…

April 24, 2012 in Customer Services, Learning Services, Library by Helen Jamieson | No comments

Learning Services are committed to continuously improving our facilities and services and one of the ways we do this is by listening to your feedback.

Please take a minute of your time to answer some questions about your experience of the library.

Complete our 60 second survey here:

http://surveys.edgehill.ac.uk/librarysurvey2012

Your feedback will help us to improve our services to you.

Entries will be entered into a prize draw to receive one of ten funky USB wristbands.

 

Helen Jamieson, Customer Services Manager

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