• Make the Web Come to You: Simple tools and techniques that keep you in the loop

    Do you want to keep track of the online debates and conversations taking place in your community of practice and beyond? Do you struggle to find time to check what is being said through all the relevant web sites, blogs, journals and social networking sites?

    As part of the Emerging Technologies series this 1 hour session is an introduction to using things such as feed readers, RSS feeds, social networking and micro-blogging sites to follow topics, people and conversations on the subjects that interest you.

    Although aimed at those relatively new to this way of keeping up to date, if you have already been using these tools feel free to come along and share your own experiences and tips for making good use of them.

    The session will be delivered by Peter Beaumont at 1pm, 22nd June.

    Edge Hill University staff can book by clicking here.

    If there are technologies you’d like to see covered in future sessions of this series please suggest them in a comment.

    Mark Ayton

    Learning Technology Development Manager

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  • Summer 2011 opening hours

    The opening hours for the University Library and the LINC will change for the summer vacation on Monday 13th June 2011

    University Library

    8.30am – 9pm    Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
    8.30am – 5pm    Wednesday & Friday
    Closed               Saturday & Sunday

    LINC Building

    The LINC will remain 24-7 access  (with a valid Unicard) throughout the summer vacation. However the helpdesk hours will alter to

    8.45am– 7pm    Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
    8.45am – 5pm    Wednesday & Friday
    Closed               Saturday & Sunday

    From Monday 27th June the Helpdesk will only open 11am – 3pm daily

    The opening hours for all our Libraries can be found here

    For further information please call us on 01695 584286 or e-mail [email protected]

     

    Cathy Carey

    Facilities Coordinator

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  • Did you know….. how we manage your reading lists?

    Each year Learning Services requests that academic staff  submit their reading lists for checking and ordering. A brief summary of the process follows:

    • Academic staff email us their reading lists which should include student numbers and module semester dates
    • Information Resources staff check the reading lists against the library catalogue
    • Book suppliers web sites are checked for the most up to date edition of the book and to see if the book is available electronically
    • This enables us check we have enough copies in stock 
    • We can digitise a chapter of a book if an ebook is not available.  There are certain copyright restrictions on this service so do check with your academic liaison librarian
    • Your academic liaison librarian makes the final decision as to how many copies to buy and in which format
    • The module code is added to the bibliographic record in the library catalogue

     How will this help the students?

    • This process ensures we purchase the correct stock
    • Students can type their module code into the library catalogue and bring up their reading list
    • Teaching staff can embed a URL into the VLE which will take the students directly to the reading list
    • The reading list can contain links to electronic journals, ebooks, online databases and past exam papers

    Academic Staff can send the reading lists to:

    Faculty of Arts & Sciences [email protected]
    Faculty of Education [email protected]
    Faculty of Health [email protected]

    Colette Hughes – Information Resources Manager

    Maureen Richardson – Electronic Resources Manager

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