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Support for Research
The library offers individual assistance and support to staff and students engaged in research.
This includes advice on:
- Locating information resources
- Literature searching
- Using electronic journals and databases
- Current awareness
- Managing bibliographic data
- Academic writing.
Your academic liaison librarian can offer help on finding information relevant to your subject area.
For full details of the services available to researchers, or to contact the research librarian, see http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/ls/research/help-training-and-support/
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Support for developing academic skills
Learning Services launched its semester 1 timetable of skills session in October and within 2 weeks the whole of our programme (including the Saturday School in November) was fully booked.
The programme ‘Steps to Academic Success’ is a range of academic skills workshops, providing students with opportunities to help them succeed at university. Due to the success of our original dates we have added some extra dates in November.
Tuesday 6th November 4:00 – 5:00 pm Developing your academic writing
Monday 12th November 4:00 – 5:00 pm Critical analysis and essay planning
Friday 16th November 12:00 – 1:00 pm Right referencing
Monday 3rd December 4:00- 5:00 pm Developing your academic writing
If you want to attend, please book online ASAP
ehstudyskills2012.eventbrite.com
We expect these sessions will also be very popular, so if you find they are fully booked, please speak to a member of staff at the Ask desk, 1st Floor University Library who can help you get the support you need. We have lots of guides online which you might find useful and you can use these as your starting point.
Rachel Bury
Academic Liaison Manager – Quality, Communication and Marketing
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Developing Digital Excellence – November staff development
Learning Services’ focus for staff development is on effective use of technologies; in the classroom, the office, interacting with students or undertaking research. In November we have an extensive range of events across all four strands. Here are some examples of events we are running across the month.• The Digital Classroom – using SMART board technology
• The Digital Office – Learning Edge Getting started, essential skills for tutors; Powerpoint – Enhancing your on-screen presentations, a session for competent users of Powerpoint; and advanced features of word processing, again a session for those competent in using Word.
• The Digital Practitioner – we have a session looking at sharing content via our repository eShare, this session will include cake!; get to know about the use of Assignment Handler; and using Campus Pack, a social learning platform that integrates social media tools such as wikis, blogs, and podcasts.
• The Digital Researcher – we have 11 sessions in November. We have developed these sessions in collaboration with the Research Support Office. To highlight couple of events we have – copyright and intellectual property rights; impact factors and how these can be used in terms of publishing; and effective information search strategies.
These are just a selection of what we are running in November. We have created an area within our Learning Services staff wiki so you can see at a glance what is covered in each strand.
https://go.edgehill.ac.uk/wiki/display/ls/Staff+Development
We will also disseminate information about the sessions via email, and the HR wiki. The programme is extensive and we suggest you use our wiki to find out more and check dates, plan your development and then book via the HR wiki. Each event links directly to the HR wiki so you can book online.
Staff within Learning Services’ are also able to deliver bespoke sessions to groups of staff so if there is something you would like us to run for your team or department, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We are keen to hear your feedback about how we develop our staff development programme to respond to the needs of the University. If you have any suggestions, please leave us a comment.
Rachel BuryAcademic Liaison Manager – Quality, Communciations and Marketing
