• Learning Services at Christmas

    We are aware the January exam period is looming, as is the start of a busy time for those undertaking dissertations, so the next few weeks may be the only time you may have to get some extra work done.  Learning Services will be here for you if you need some quiet study time.

    Our additional opening hours at Christmas are always well used and this year we are pleased be able to offer more vacation opening than ever before.

    The University Library will be open for 3 days during the Christmas vacation.

    As well as being open Monday 23rd December, 9am – 5pm, we are open Christmas Eve, 9am – 3pm, Monday 30th December, 9am – 5pm, and New Years Eve, 9am – 3pm. You can come in and see us, find resources, get some help, use a PC, bring your books back and take out some more! As the Library is now home to the media equipment, media students are also able to access kit during the Christmas vacation, for the first time.

    Our online help tool – Ask Us – is available 24/7 throughout the Christmas period for you to check our bank of answers, get in touch via email or text and, during our opening hours, use live web chat to get the help you need. Our telephone helpline is available during opening hours on 01695 584286

    24/7 access to PCs in the LINC building will operate throughout the holiday period if you need a PC.

    Of course you don’t have to visit us in the library, you can use us online. All our eResources will be available via our website and library catalogue so why not give them a visit. You can access 24/7:

    • 97,000+ eBooks
    • 40,000+ eJournals
    • specialist subject web pages to sign post you to the right resources for your subject

    For more details about our opening hours please check the website

    Merry Christmas, Learning Services

    Cathy

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  • eBooks for Health Students – StatRef is here!

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    So what is Stat-Ref? It’s an excellent collection of online Nursing and Midwifery eBooks for students. As well as access to over 25 titles, students also have the option to search within the site, to find a specific chapter to suit them. Choose from:

    • The 5 Minute Clinical Consult
    • Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing
    • Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care plans
    • Nutrition and Diet Therapy

    And many more!

    There are also a number of additional tools, such as Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, for those tricky conditions and also MedCalc3000, with handy unit converters and a range of clinical diagnostic tools to support practice.

    These include:

    • Apgar scores
    • Diabetes screening
    • Paracetamol toxicity

    StatRef is also available as an app, for iPhone/iPad, Android and Blackberry, to download to your tablet device or mobile phone – so you can access evidence based references in an instant, on the bus or on the ward.

    Scan these handy QR codes to download it now!

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    Lisa

  • Developing Digital Excellence in December – come a long for a coffee and a mince pie

    As semester 1 draws to close there are a number of opportunities for staff development and maybe reflect on some of the success of the term around using the VLE and share those with us and colleagues or you might be thinking about what you can do differently next year.  The sessions within our Digital Practitioner strand are sessions we have run previously but have been our most popular, especially the students’ ideal VLE

     

    The Digital Practitioner  

    Your Digital Tattoo – What the web says about you!              4/12/13      1.00pm- 2.00pm
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    Radio Ga Ga, Host Your Own Podcast                                  5/12/13      12noon – 1.00pm

    Learning Edge – The Students’ Ideal VLE                               11/12/13    1.00pm – 2.00pm

    Bring Your Course to Life With Video and Audio Content       17/12/13   12noon – 1.00pm

    Another popular session in the past has been Michelle Maden providing help and guidance around beginning a systematic review so this session is running again on the 10th of December.

    The Digital Researcher

    Systematic Reviews: Where to Search                               10/12/13    11.00am- 12:30pm

     

    Elaine Czotter continues to provide support in terms of staff using our new email system and has two sessions, one looking at the use of the calendar and all the opportunities that can bring and also using and managing your Outlook email.

    The Digital Office

    Outlook calendar (new session)                                           4/12/13      2.00pm-3.30pm

    Outlook email (new session)                                                5/12/13      10.00am-12.00pm

    Publisher- Introduction to desk top publishing                      6/12/13      1.00pm-3.00pm

    ECDL Induction                                                                     10/12/13    10.00am–11.00am

    We will be offering coffee and minces pies at our Christmas sessions so we hope to see you over the next few weeks.

    All off the sessions are held in the ICT Staff Development training room S 5 on the second floor of the LINC Building.

    Please book online via the HR Staff Development bookings

     If you have any areas of development which you feel you would like more support with please don’t hesitate to get in touch, we can add sessions to our regular programme or we can provide bespoke sessions for you and your team.

    Please contact  me via email or telephone ex 7757 or 01695 650757

    Rachel Bury

    Learning Services

    Academic Liaison Manager – Quality, Marketing and Communications

    Rachel

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