• World Book Night – 23rd April – Fancy a free book

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    Learning Services are celebrating World Book Night this year and we will be handing out free copies of books in the HUB on the 23rd April between 10am-2pm.

    World Book Night is a celebration of reading and books which sees tens of thousands of passionate volunteers gift specially chosen and printed WBN books in their communities to share their love of reading.

    We have been successful in obtaining 5 titles , so we should have approx 100 free books (first come, first served)

    This year the titles include:

    We have also set up some displays on the ground floor of the Library, with some of the titles from this year and some from previous years that we have in stock.

    Get reading for pleasure, you know it makes sense.

     

     

     

    Mark

  • Spring clean your digital skills

    Staff Development Programme – Developing Digital Excellence

    Calling all staff, dust off your keyboard (sorry maybe taking the spring cleaning pun too far..)

    Staff from across Learning Services are delivering sessions this month around a number of themes.  There are three sessions from our Digital Practitioner series – maybe you might want to start with the essentials skills in Learning Edge and then follow up with sessions looking at enhancing the online experience for your students using podcasting and also, how you can further support your students in a very positive way by using the tracking tool within Blackboard.

    Digital Practitioner

    Radio Ga Ga, Host Your Own Podcast

    11/04/2013 12.00 – 1.00pm

    Learning Edge Essential Skills

    18/04/2013 10.00 – 11.30am

    Big Brother Knows: Supportive Online Tracking

    26/04/2013 12.00 – 1.00pm

     

    Our librarians are here to support your research and information retrieval skills, which includes searching, critical analysis, storing and recording your references and copyright and intellectual property. 

    Digital Researcher

    Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights for Research

    09/04/2013 12.30 – 1.00pm

    Advanced RefWorks

    11/04/2013 10.00am – 12.00pm

    Critical Analysis of Information Sources

    15/04/2013 1.00 – 2.00pm

    A core component of our Developing Digital Excellence programme is ICT skills.  If you or staff you manage are keen to improve their skills, there is a ECDL induction on the 9th April.  You can come along and meet Elaine Czotter, the ICT staff development trainer who can tell you more about the qualification, our ECDL test centre and the programme she delivers.

    Digital Office

    ECDL Induction

    09/04/2013 10.00 – 11.00am

    POWERPOINT 1 – Introduction to On-Screen Presentations

    16/04/2012 9.30 – 11.30am

    Find out more about the whole programme and future sessions in May and June via the Learning Services wiki

    Rachel Bury

    Academic Liaison Manager – Quality, Marketing and Communication

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  • Revision and exams – some useful signposts

    If you spending some time over the Easter holidays preparing for exams, and finishing those last pieces of work, we would like to signpost you to some valuable help and support.

    We have 128 past exam papers as digital items within our library catalogue. If  a department has made past papers available, we have scanned the exam paper and placed it as a digital item in the catalogue. We have just added a number of papers from 2012.  Most of the subjects are from within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences but please have a look, there may be something which helps you prepare.

    We have 30 subjects or programmes and within those subjects, 128 papers.  Papers range from those used a few years right up to those we have just added from 2012 exams.

    How to find them in the library catalogue

    Either

    Do a ‘Title’ search for ‘Exam Papers’ and you will have a subject list.

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    Search for your ‘Module Code’ and if there is one for that module,  the title of the exam paper appears in the reading list in alphabetical order.

    In both cases the icon is an orange jigsaw piece so it is quite noticeable.

    As with all our digitised items, to access an exam paper you will need to log in to authenticate as a Edge Hill staff or student.

    If you are trying to find research, both for revision purposes or finishing assignments, we have created a top 10 tips around how to identify, locate, evaluate and effectively use information.  We have created a PDF document so if you would like to print  and keep, here it is.

    Remember we have guides on our web pages to help with academic writing skills.

    If you would like a one to one session for revision skills or a group of you would like a support session please get in touch via the Ask desk, 1st floor University Library or email [email protected]

    Learning Services and the University is closed until Wednesday 3rd April 2013 but there is lots of help and support on our web pages, especially around academic skills and using eResources so please take a look.

    Rachel Bury

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