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Late Night Library……What are your thoughts?
What do you think of Late Night Library? Good Idea……?
We know lots of you are making use of it but we’d really like some feedback. If you’ve got time please fill in one of the postcards dotted about in the Library and post it in one of the boxes on the Help Desks or e-mail us at [email protected]
If you want any more information please contact us on 01695 584286
Opening hours for all our sites can be found on the Learning Services website www.edgehill.ac.uk/ls/openinghours
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Emerging Technologies
On the 29th March the Learning Technology Development Team are offering their second staff information exchange session in this series:
Coming of Age: Professionalising the Blog
Do you have an image and message you need to get out to a wider audience? Are you a blogger or thinking about starting a professional blog that focuses on aspects of academic practice?Blogs are now a mainstream social media tool used to promote the ‘business’ of Edge Hill.
As an information/education tool blog owners are increasing concerned with blog ‘etiquette’, editorial guidelines where there are multiple authors and finding better ways of improving ‘discoverability’ and impact.
This session will bring together current and prospective bloggers to discuss the pros, cons and pitfalls of starting, maintaining and promoting your own blog.
To join the discussion staff can follow this link to reserve a place on the session:
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Holy grail found by librarians?…
Four weeks into the trial of two discovery services, EBSCO and Summon, which offer a single box to search our databases, e-books, full-text journals and the library catalogue, and opinion is divided on which of the two will best meet our needs. The tools provide the best of both worlds: the ease of a google-type search facility combined with results from academic resources subscribed to by the university.
What isn’t in doubt though, is the enthusiastic reaction from academic staff and students to what librarians consider to be the holy grail of library resource searching.
‘It is absolutely brilliant!’
‘A great starting point for a search’
‘This is the way forward for the future. 10/10 – A must for Edge Hill’
‘Much better than searching through different databases’
While we have had a great reaction so far, we would welcome further opinion and feedback from you so that we can make an informed decision on the benefits of purchasing a discovery service in the future.
The trial continues until the end of May.
Find out more, access the resources and give your feedback at http://library.edgehill.ac.uk/screens/discovermore.html
If you have any questions, please contact Maureen Richardson ([email protected])
Dawn McLoughlinAcademic Support Manager
