• Dissertation – A professional finish

    Do you want your dissertation to stand out from the rest? Do you want to present a professional document that reflects your skills and knowledge? Then why not attend the bite size learning session ’Dissertation – A professional finish’. This workshop is available to all students and is included in the ‘Steps to Academic Success’…

  • Bookings are now open!

    Struggling with reading academic texts and articles?  If you are, come along to our Routemaster session about reading which takes place next Tuesday (22 October). Aimed at developing your understanding of yourself as a ‘reader’ of complex texts, we’ll also consider some strategies that can help you to engage more fully with the reading you…

  • Your route to success

              Have you heard about our Routemaster programme? This year Learning Services are running two strands within our student support programme. We have sessions within Steps to Academic Success and new this term, Steps to Employability.  We are calling the programme Routemaster – Your route to success. Steps to Academic Success…

  • Award-winning Student Assistants!

    Have you noticed our award-winning Student Assistants, resplendent in their red sweatshirts answering enquiries in the library? At the Employability Awards Evening organised by the Careers Centre on Tuesday 23 April, the Student Assistant team who work in the University Library, Ormskirk won the Student On-Campus Employee Team Award. This award celebrates students or teams…

  • Revision and exams – some useful signposts

    If you spending some time over the Easter holidays preparing for exams, and finishing those last pieces of work, we would like to signpost you to some valuable help and support. We have 128 past exam papers as digital items within our library catalogue. If  a department has made past papers available, we have scanned…

  • Achieving Assignment Success

              We know this is a very busy time for students, the next 6 weeks is crucial to everyone finishing assignments, and preparing for exams. We have created a top 10 tips around how to identify, locate, evaluate and effectively use information. 1. Use the right information source for what you are…

  • Welcome back to….Exams!

    This time of year sees a new start and resolutions for many people but for large groups of our students, it’s also exam time.  Not something people probably relish at this time of year, so we are here to help. We are running an exam revision session on: Wednesday 9th January 2013 1.00pm – 2.00pm.…

  • Red (sweatshirt) Alert!

    Have you noticed our student assistants, resplendent in their red sweatshirts who are based at the Ask desk on the first floor of the University Library, Ormskirk? Research at other universities has shown that students can benefit from ‘peer to peer support’, hence the move to introduce student assistants into the library. Students themselves have…

  • 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…

  • Dyslexia Awareness Week

    Dyslexia Awareness Week 8th to 14th October. Want to know what support is available from the SpLD Support Team or know more about Dyslexia and other Specific Learning Difficulties? Visit the SpLD Support Team stand in the HUB.  Staff will be available throughout the week. Seven TextHelp prizes won every day this week. To mark…