Library & Learning Services

Learning Services have been awarded the Learning at Work Week Impact Award for Innovation in Learning and Development for small organisations!

This award from Campaign for Learning recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative ways to develop staff and provide opportunities for learning.

Back in May, 198 places were booked on 20 different ‘Curious and Creative’ events over Learning at Work week itself, and 65 members of Learning Services staff engaged in our online course DigiQuest in the six weeks leading up to Learning at Work Week itself.

The judging panel said the combination of the events alongside the online course, ‘clearly had a huge impact on staff digital competencies’. Read more about the 2017 award winners on the Campaign for Learning website.

As the days get shorter and colder, what could be better than staying snug and warm inside with some chocolate and a Christmas film?
Thanks to our 12 Days of BoB competition, you can do just that!

Throughout the first 12 working days of December, we will be posting an image from a Christmas film which can be watched through Box of Broadcasts on our social media accounts! All you need to do is comment below the post with the title of the film. All correct answers will go into a daily draw to win some Christmas chocolate! You can enter through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram!

Keep an eye out for our #12DaysOfBoB posts on our social media from 1st – 18th December!

Terms and Conditions

1. Only EHU Students and Staff are eligible to win the prize.
2. Learning Services staff may enter but are not eligible to win a prize (that would be cheating! 😉)
3. Maximum 3 entries per day – 1 per social media post (you may enter as many times as you like but your details will only be entered ONCE into the daily prize draw).
4. The prizes are non-transferable and have no cash value.
5. Competition entries will only be accepted via Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
6. Any entries posted after the ‘reveal’ photo will not be counted. The competition closes at 4pm each day with the winner announced soon after.
7. The winners will be announced on Twitter and contacted directly via the social media platform they entered. If anyone cannot be contacted owing to personal settings restrictions your entry will become null and void and a re-draw will take place.
8. All winners must be able to collect the prize from Ormskirk Welcome Desk and be able to identify their winning account.

More about BoB…
Watching Christmas films is not all you can do on BoB!
Box of Broadcasts is an on demand TV and radio service for education and can even be cited in your assignments. The academically-focused system enables students and staff to record from over 65 free-to-air channels including BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, ITV, Channel 4, Film4 and more!

Available across all desktop, android and iOS devices you can watch live, request or record programmes. What’s more you can even create clips and themed playlists of your own!

BoB is intuitive and simple to use so you may find you can start straight away. However, if you need a bit of help, take a look at our online guide.

The new Learning Services exhibition celebrates two pioneering women who undertook ground breaking work during the First World War both at home and in France.

Mary Birrell Davies grew up in Liverpool and qualified as a doctor in 1899. She founded one of the country’s first war relief organisations in the city- the Liverpool Women’s War Service Bureau.

Frances Ivens was appointed as Liverpool’s first woman consultant in 1907, running the gynaecological department of Stanley Hospital, Bootle. In 1914 she was asked to run the newly formed Scottish Women’s Hospital at Abbey Royaumont, France. Regarded as a ‘show’ hospital it pioneered the treatment of gas gangrene.

Come along and see the displays relating to these women and at the same time test your knowledge of medical instruments with our quick challenge.

On loan from the Liverpool Medical Institution, the exhibition forms part of the University remembrance commemorations this year.

The exhibition can be found on the ground floor of the Library from 1st November 2017 onward.