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Why not visit the Woodlands Library?
Woodlands Library at Chorley tends to be largely unknown to the majority of our students. Many a student will arrive through the door unsure of their rights and privileges, and in many cases that Woodlands even exists. After it is explained to them that they have the same rights as they would at the Ormskirk Library they are usually pleasantly surprised and leave stating what a nice experience it was and that they will visit again.
We are quieter than the main Ormskirk campus and there are usually PCs available to use. You can reserve any items you need and can get them sent to Woodlands Library from any of the main sites. You can also return any items from the other sites here free of charge.
We have a full complement of staff that have the time to offer a more one to one service.
The only thing we currently don’t offer is the Blackwell’s service.
So if you live in Chorley or the surrounding area, why not visit us, it may be more convenient and if not why not pass on the word that we are here.
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Creating a group of bloggers
A group session was held yesterday, Friday 13th March (hope that isn’t a bad omen!) which brought together a group of volunteers from Learning Services, who were interested in, wanted to know more about, thought they should be, or already were – blogging.
As the saying goes, one volunteer is worth a hundred pressed men so the group were engaged, interested, open and willing to find out more, regardless of past experience. Mike Nolan, Acting Head of Web Services and I delivered the workshop which discussed what is a blog?, why should we blog?, what kind of structure should a Learning Services blog take, and how would the blog fit into the wider University picture?
In just over an hour, the group watched the commoncraft guide to blogging, asked questions, wrote for some their first ever blog post, queried tags and categories and had many more questions than we could answer in this, what will turn out to be, part one.
I’m writing about it because I want to document the growth of the group, which will be evidenced by the posts that you see here, and can’t be measured in the true sense, but which will be clear as the writers find their blogging voice, and possibly even a wider digital identity.
We’re going to meet again in three weeks, after the group have had a bit of practice in writing and posting, to further discuss how we move this project forward.
I should say that this is linked to the overhaul of Learning Services web presence that Martin Baxter, ICT and Media Resource Manager and I have been working on over the last 15 months with a cross service project group, and the blog posts will be directed (using categories) to the most relevant parts of the web site to ensure that the content of the blog, which will be varied, reaches the right audience.
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Physical Education Index on trial
We have got a new online database on trial. It is called Physical Education Index
It needs a username and password for the trial. Please contact Maureen Richardson
“CSA Physical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology”
As you will know we do subscribe to Sport Discus Full Text which is the definitive sports database. However there might be areas which are not covered as well in SD as in Physical Education Index
Physical Education Index is not full text but will link to the full text if we have a subscription
It is important that we make the right decision so do please evaluate and send feedback to Maureen Richardson.
