Library & Learning Services

During the Fresher’s Fair on Wednesday 20^th September Learning Services are giving you the chance to win some prizes.

Option 1 – Guess the year!

We have delved into the University Library archive and selected 4 photographs of Edge Hill Libraries through the years – past, present, and future.  For the chance to win a £50 Amazon voucher all you need to do is guess the year you think each photo is from and the closest combined score will be the winner.

To enter:

1. Come and find us at the Fresher’s Fair 2017
2. Look at the photos displayed
3. Write the year you think the photo is from on the entry form provided and place it in the submission box

We will also be posting the same images on Twitter so feel free to play along online – just for fun though, to enter the competition you will need to come and see us at the Fresher’s Fair.

Option 2 – Follow us on Twitter

The best way to keep up to date with all that Learning Services has to offer is by following us on Twitter. To encourage you to do so we are giving away a library goody bag to one lucky person who starts following us on the 20^th September. To be entered into this prize draw just:

1. Follow @EHULearnService
2. Tweet us with the phrase ‘Count me in @EHULearnService #LibraryGoodyBag’.

We will contact the winners of both competitions on 21^st September. For further details please read our full terms and conditions.

Good Luck!

Learning Services wishes a very warm welcome to all new students joining us this year…and, of course, this welcome extends to all our lovely returning students too 👋

Over the next few weeks there is going to be a lot of information coming your way to help you settle in to University life, so we thought this handy overview may help you pick out the important bits! 🔎

The University Library will be offering 8 days of student led support as we invite you to join our current students for…

• Student Led Library Tours: a short tour around the library building, and facilities, to familiarise yourself with what will soon become your second home on campus!
• Student Led Learning Edge Support: all tours will include an overview of the essentials you will need to know when accessing resources with a virtual guided tour of Learning Edge!

Tours and Learning Edge support are available on a drop in basis (no booking required) and will run every half hour on the following days…

• Monday 18^th September            10am – 3:30pm
• Tuesday 19^th September           10am – 3:30pm
• Wednesday 20^th September     10am – 3:30pm
• Thursday 21^st September          10am – 3:30pm
• Friday 22^nd September              10am – 3:30pm
• Monday 25^th September            10am – 3:30pm
• Tuesday 26^th September           10am – 3:30pm
• Wednesday 27^th September     10am – 3:30pm

New for 2017/18 we will also be offering two evenings of Twilight Tours for all those busy bee’s unable to make it to one of our daytime events. Again, these are available on a drop in basis (no booking required) and will run every half hour on the following evenings…

• Tuesday 3^rd October        6pm – 8pm
• Thursday 5^th October       6pm – 8pm

We look forward to seeing you all in the library, and at your Learning Services Induction session, very soon!

The Lydiate Estate: The Hall, the Chapel and the Inn

Come along and discover the history of the local Lydiate estate. Recently awarded a Heritage Lottery grant, the Friends of Lydiate Abbey will be surveying the site of the Abbey, south of Ormskirk, this summer. This exhibition brings together plans, photographs and maps of the Lydiate estate including:

• The Scotch Piper- known as ‘the oldest inn in Lancashire’
• Photographs and information on the families of the Lydiate Hall
• A pictorial history of Lydiate village
• The case for Shakespeare in Lancashire- even in Lydiate?

You can also find out about how to get involved with Friends of Lydiate Abbey to help preserve our heritage.

The exhibition can be found on the ground floor of the Library from 12th June 2017 onwards.