• Already planning your Easter studies?

    At this busy time of year and as Easter approaches, many of our users will be thinking about time to study in the University Library or any of our other centres.  Opening hours at our sites will alter slightly, week commencing Monday 25th March, and over the  Easter vacation. University Library: Monday  25th March to…

  • Download ebooks to your Kindle Fire, iPhone, iPad, Android or Sony eReader

    Did you know you can download an ebook, or a section of an ebook to read offline? Two ebook providers, Ebrary and Dawson, offer this option, allowing you the convenience of downloading and reading information for when you haven’t got an internet connection. Ebrary You can create an image PDF of a specific chapter or…

  • Learning Services go the extra mile!

              As a holder of the Customer Service Excellence award for 8 years, Learning Services are committed to continuously improving our facilities, resources and services to ensure your learning experience is the best that it can be. We were delighted to receive some excellent feedback from our latest Customer Service Excellence…

  • 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…

  • Exciting new way to find out about resources

    Learning Services staff in our Information Resources and Academic Support divisions  have been working closely with our colleagues in the web team to develop a way to keep people up to date with all the new books as they arrive. This is a busy period for us as we buy books at the start of the…

  • EHU loves Reading – share our passion and win an eReader

    “To read is to be entertained, challenged, reminded, enthralled or changed”. Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate Learning Services invites all staff and students to share their love of reading with us. Just let us know in 140 characters why books are close to your heart and have the opportunity to win an eReader. You can…

  • 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…

  • Changes to the Library

    The new furniture has been delivered and is now in place on the floors, please let us know what you think. There are several additional PC spaces that have yet to be installed over the next few weeks. We have some last minute painting jobs going on in the Library, so we would like to…

  • Midnight Opening

    Dont forget that the University Library at Ormskirk is now open from 8am until midnight, Monday to Friday each week during term time. You can access all the resources including pc’s, printing, photocopying as well as issuing and returning your books during this time. The helpdesk closes at 9pm so make sure you come in…

  • University Library welcome to International Students.

    We have been able to update our self-issue machines in the University Library to allow some of our International Students to access the menus and functions, of these machines, in their own language. After liaising with the International Office we have added the options of choosing Arabic, Korean and Chinese. We have welcomed a number…