Library & Learning Services

Are you getting ready to start your dissertation?

Here’s an opportunity to learn some new information searching skills at a time and a place that suits you.

Not finding the results you require when searching online, on the library catalogue or journal databases?

Grab a cuppa and find yourself a nice comfy chair and watch this online session to gain some new skills which will improve your search strategy. You can even watch and listen while travelling on the bus or train to and from university.

The session is called “Finding information for your dissertation” session and ran online using Blackboard Collaborate, on 19 February 2014.

• YouTube version
• Other formats

Finding information for your dissertation – next live webinar:

• 12th March 11am – 12pm
• 27th March 3:30pm – 4:30pm

If you would like to attend the next live webinar, view the calendar which details all the sessions coming up in Routemaster – Steps to Success – Semester 2. Click on a date to make a booking. You can book any session up to 2 weeks in advance.

We will look at why information skills are important, systematic planning for conducting a search and managing the search process and results. This will be demonstrated via application sharing and web tours.

Do you have feedback or suggestions about delivering skills in this way?

Are there any other sessions you would like to see delivered as an online webinar?

  Helen Miller