• World Book Day Fun

    To celebrate World Book Day we are bringing you a fantastic Golden Ticket competition in conjunction with Wally of Where’s Wally fame. #WBDGoldenTicket In the run up to World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March we will be posting two images per day of Wally somewhere in the University Library with a book. In each…

  • Self Service Surprise

    Following on from our fabulous refurb, we present to you the next act in our makeover ….Self Service Laptops. 36 high spec, fully loaded, fully charged HP Laptops will be available 24-7 for loan from the University Library, via self-service lockers, all you need is your UniCard. The Laptops will have installed: Microsoft Office 365…

  • December graduation

    Are you graduating this December? Don’t forget to sign up to the Alumni network and get 10 years membership of the University Library after you graduate! Alumni Membership entitles you to: Access the study facilities at any of our libraries (Ormskirk, Aintree, Manchester and Chorley) and borrow up to 5 books Browse our book, print journal and newspaper…

  • Man Booker Prize Winner 2015

    On Tuesday 13th October an author, who only 10 years earlier considered giving up writing all together, was awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction – congratulation Marlon James! The Jamaican born winner endured almost 80 rejections of his first novel, John Crow’s Devil, before it was published in 2005. Three novels later and…

  • Using our new look library catalogue

    Visit our new look library catalogue and you will notice a few changes so we thought you might like a mini guided tour of the new features. Accessing the library catalogue… You can access the library catalogue direct https://capitadiscovery.co.uk/edgehill/ Or via Learning Edge using My Library Account Summary Renewing your loans… We have introduced a…

  • 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…

  • So, how user friendly are we? Learning Services UX experiences..

    With a major UK conference last month, the subject of UX in libraries is very much on the agenda.  UX or usability can take a variety of forms and many of us have been engaging with the ideas, techniques and concepts of UX for the past couple of years. Helen Jamieson and I attended a…

  • Follow Friday Twitter Competition #FF @EHULearnService

    In celebration of @EHULearnService reaching 1000 followers on Twitter we thought it would be nice to hear WHY you follow us? We would like you to invite your friends and followers to follow @EHULearnService using the #FF and tell them in 140 characters (or less!) why they should follow Edge Hill University Library and you…

  • Some highlights from term 2!

    It seems like only yesterday that we were saying hello to our brand new students, and welcoming back our 2nd/3rd years and postgraduates!  So it’s hard to believe that we are already at the start of the third and, for many, the final term of 15/16…. We are in a thoughtful and reflective mood again this…

  • We’ll be the judge of that!

    Over the past few weeks 2 of our staff have been helping to judge the 2015 entries for the BBC Radio 2 500 words competition. Helen Jamieson our Customer Services Manager, and Rita McWilliam who manages our library at the Woodlands Centre have volunteered as judges for the past 3 years. This year both Helen…