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UniSkills Focus On: SpringerLink
Welcome to our UniSkills Focus On… blog for May where this month we will be talking about SpringerLink.
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Keep up to date with BrowZine
Looking to stay current with your favourite journals and across disciplines? Now you can with BrowZine, a new desktop and mobile-friendly service helping you to browse and read journals quickly and easily.
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Educational Resources – What is available to you?
What is a resource? It’s more than you may initially think, and there are many different resources available to you here at Edge Hill University. It is something that can help aid you in doing a specific job, writing an assignment or your dissertation. The resources available to you throughout Catalyst are more than you may […]
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Introducing our Student Advisors
We would like to give a warm welcome to our new team of Student Advisors: Dylan, Claire, Shelby, Rachel and Jade! The Student Advisors are based in Catalyst and they are here to support you. The role of a Student Advisor is to provide help, support and guidance to other students on a peer to peer basis. The […]
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Hello to the new library catalogue
We launched our catalogue on Monday 1st June after a period of almost 12 months planning and testing. The new catalogue is just part of a suite of changes you will see over the coming months but if you have any questions or you can’t find what you need in the catalogue or our tool […]
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Do you need to discover more?
It has come to that time of year when you will be researching for assignments or exams. One of Learning Services’ key resources to support you with your research is Discover More. We have recently upgraded the tool and there are lots of new features which we hope will help you as you search for information […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Resources special!
Over the past few months, staff in information resources and our academic librarians have been working together to produce a newsletter dedicated to resources. We wanted to share with our colleagues important information about our collections and how they are being used. We have also highlighted some of the work […]
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Freshers Fair 2012
Learning Services gives a warm, (but damp) welcome to everyone, both new freshers and returning students. As you will know, the 2012 Student Union Freshers Fair is taking place in the HUB on 26th September. We will be there throughout the event promoting some of our exciting new developments and resources. Come and find out about […]