Library & Learning Services

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching! Shops are full of roses and pink and red gifts, Krispy Kreme have released their heart shaped doughnuts and the TV is full of adverts for romantic compilation albums. This means it is the perfect time to get in the romantic spirit with our Valentines Playlist on BoB!

Laugh along with the trials and tribulations of Bridget Jones as she tries to find someone who can cope with her oversized knickers, dreadful cooking skills and interfering mother. The laughs continue with romantic comedies including He’s Just Not That Into You, Bride Wars and 10 Things I Hate About You.

You will need a box of tissues for The Notebook as you follow the love story of rich girl Allie and mill worker Noah. Keep the tissue box close at hand for tearjerkers Titanic, PS I Love You and The Time Travellers Wife. There are plenty of classics in the playlist too – from Pretty Woman to Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

It isn’t all films either! In the mix you will find popular TV show First Dates, where singles experience a blind date in front of cameras in a fancy London restaurant, along with a documentary about the stories behind romantic comedies, and a radio show with the poetry of Roger McGough.

To view the playlist, simply follow this link to Box of Broadcasts. When prompted to sign in, select Edge Hill University as your home institution and log in using your Edge Hill username and password.

Keep an eye out for our Awards playlist featuring films from a range of academy and award winning movies – coming soon!

There is plenty more you can do with BoB as well…

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! You can also search an extensive archive of over 2 million broadcasts from last night all the way back to the 1990’s!!

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! It has an easy to search format that provides detailed citation data to help you with academic referencing.

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 or watch a video tutorial

 

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Heather Johnston,
Staff Digital Capability Development Coordinator

 

After a successful Semester 1, we’re delighted to announce the new Uni Skills workshop line-up for Semester 2!

Between September and December last year, we saw a whopping 229 students at our lunchtime workshop series!! We asked for your feedback and we had some fantastic responses:

We listened to your workshop suggestions and as a result we have introduced new workshops into the programme to support you on the topics where you feel you need it most (such as presentation skills for that all-important assessment or formatting long word documents to give them that professional-looking finish!)

If you haven’t attended one of our workshops before, there’s no better time to join! Workshops take place during lunchtime hours and are open to everyone no matter what your course, or year.

The full Semester 2 programme covers a range of key topics including:

• Planning Your Assignment
• Academic Writing
• Harvard Referencing
• Critical reading and critical analysis
• Dissertations
• Finding the right sources
• Using eResources
• Proof-reading strategies
• How to stop putting things off and start getting things done
• Mastering your exam revision

***New for 2016-17***

• Powerful presentations
• Working with long documents

If we don’t offer a workshop that you would like to attend, why not make a suggestion.

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How to book your place:

Registration for each workshop will open 2 weeks in advance. Places are limited so don’t forget to book your place online through the My Library tab in Learning Edge, via the UniSkills webpages or via www.ehu.ac.uk/workshops

If a workshop is full or you can’t make the date, simply register your details on the event page (waiting list) and we’ll get in touch should we receive a cancellation for the scheduled session (remember, it’s fastest finger first!)

Note: This Semester we are using a new booking system. The first time you log-in, you may be asked to select some preferences for the Careers Service, we advise you to complete the preferences and then you will automatically arrive on the UniSkills workshops page every time you visit via one of the methods outlined above.

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Questions?

If you need any help booking your place or have any workshop requests, don’t hesitate to contact us via email [email protected] or visit us in person at the Ask Desk (1st floor, University library).

It’s back… and it’s bigger!

Yes! The great textbook giveaway is going to be held again on the 25^th January between 12-2pm in the Hub.

Everybody loves a freebie and we have over 700 of them!

Don’t miss out – see you there!
#everylittlehelps   #passthebook