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Success starts with the first step – begin your journey by coming to one of our academic support sessions
Whether you’re looking forward to the new semester or apprehensive about the challenges it may bring, Learning Services can offer you support to study effectively in 2012. Just pick up our handy ‘Steps to Success’ programme from the library Ask desk and choose your January workshop from:
- Reading lists – finding, using, researching 17 January 2012
- Literature searching – creating a strategy 18 & 23 January 2012
- Improving your academic writing – key components 20 January 2012
- Referencing & citations – what, where & how 26 January 2012
- The Discovery tool – using a single search 30 January 2012
Each lasts just an hour and is packed with key skills to help you in your studies. It’s easy to book- go to:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/org/1820072947?s=4818699
Our expert staff will guide you through the session, answer your questions and set you up for success in 2012. Further details for each session can be found in the programme and what’s more- they’re not just for January, the sessions run throughout spring.
Ruth Wilson
Academic Liaison Manager (Education)
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Over half a million what?
Did you know the Library Catalogue can be used to access over 17,000 E-Journals?
In the last academic year (2010/2011) you downloaded over half a million articles.
The favourite databases with the top downloaded usage by faculty were:
Faculty of Health and Social Care Proquest Nursing Journals 57,064 full text articles
Faculty of Arts and Science Sports Discus 29,779 full text articles
Faculty of Education Education Resource Collection 19,029 full text articles
If you are interested in the usage figures for your specific resources, please contact your Faculty librarian or e-mail [email protected]
Remember you can find your specialist database collections on the Learning Services web pages under Subject Resources
Sheila Murphy
Academic Liaison Librarian
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Happy New Year to all our readers..Learning Services Newsletters now online
Welcome back to the Learning Services blog. If you would like to know more about what we were doing last year and plans and projects for 2012 why not have a read of our three Faculty newsletters which we published just before Christmas. You can access them via our Learning Services home page.
We have highlighted some of our key developments which have taken place during semester 1 and also some of the enhancements we have made to our services. If you would like to know more about any of the developments we have highlighted, please get in touch via the blog, we are always happy to share more information.
In the Faculty of Education newsletter you can find out about how we are working with academics around promoting their reading lists and improving accessibility to resources. There is also some information around how we are providing skills support via a variety of online tools; you can have a look at the education skills resources here
Faculty of Health and Social Care colleagues can read about our exciting programme of staff development coming up in semester 2 and also our plans to focus on our support at Armstrong House, and seek some feedback from our Manchester students.
Billy Jones, the Student Union VP for Arts and Sciences is on the cover of the FAScinate newsletter talking about some of the work he has been doing and his role within the Faculty. There is also an quick look at our new Discover More tool ..Does it do what it says on the tin? Have a look at the tool and try a quick search to find out for yourself!
There is also a very quick information bite about QR codes, they are every where now and we are going to be using them more and more.
Rachel Bury
Academic Liaison Manager – Health and Social Care
