• Christmas read – treat yourself to a Learning Services newsletter

    Learning Services would like to share with you some of the exciting developments which have happened over the past few months. It’s been a busy term for lots of our teams’ who have been involved in developments and improvements with media loans; skills and employability events; and new help and support available via the web…

  • Learning Services at Christmas

    We are aware the January exam period is looming, as is the start of a busy time for those undertaking dissertations, so the next few weeks may be the only time you may have to get some extra work done.  Learning Services will be here for you if you need some quiet study time. Our…

  • Do you need classroom materials for your teaching placement?

    It may be early in the term but if you are working with children and you are looking for materials to take to your placement/setting for use in the classroom you may want to check out the Education Resource Collection. The collection contains a range of materials from books (fiction and non-fiction), posters, games, dvds,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Highlights of the Technology Road Show & Mobile Clinic

    Last month Learning Services and IT Services combined forces to bring the first ever Technology Road Show & Mobile Clinic to the University.  The event was hosted in the Hub, to which students and staff took the opportunity to see demonstrations of Edge Hill mobile applications, and to speak to us and obtain technical support…

  • 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…

  • Things to remember over Christmas….including our University Library opening times

              As semester 1 comes to a close and the holidays are upon us, there a couple of things Learning Services would like to help you with. We are aware it’s the exam period in January and also those of you undertaking a dissertation – the next few weeks might be…

  • 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…