• The Great Textbook Giveaway

    Following on from our very successful textbook donation scheme earlier this year, we now have over 500 books ready to find a new home! You will find us at the Hub on the 12th October 2016 between 12 – 2pm. Come and get yourself some FREE books! #everylittlehelps #passthebook

  • Take a walk with us…

    National Poetry Day is the annual celebration of all things poetical and this year the University Library invites you to join us for a week of activities including a poetry walk around our beautiful campus! The world as we know it today is so very busy, and we are in such heavy demand from emails,…

  • 2 for 1 on Student Support

    A massive HELLO and WELCOME to all new students starting with us this year! It is such an exciting time embarking on a new adventure and there is going to be lots of information and events happening over the next few weeks to help you settle in to University life! The University Library will be…

  • Mapping Ormskirk Through The Years

    Are you new to the area, or perhaps a returning student, and would like to know more about our (your new) local town? Historically a market town at the heart of West Lancashire, steeped in history and character, is where you will call home for the next year or more…but what does it have to…

  • Open All Night (and all day too!)

    Can you believe tomorrow is September 1st? Neither can we, but we will let you in on another not so little secret that is even more unbelievable… 24/7 is back… and this time for a whopping 38 weeks! That’s a total of 6,373 uninterrupted* hours of… Access to the library building with a valid UniCard Use of…

  • Developing a learning culture: Learning Services celebrate Learning at Work Week 2016

    We have always had a strong commitment to staff development within Learning Services but over the last 12 months we have been focussing on how we can develop a real learning culture.  Learning at Work Week seemed an ideal vehicle to support this and so we decided to celebrate national ‘Learning at Work Week 2016′ with a fantastic programme of activities and events. Harnessing…

  • A Book of Baileys

    In January 1992 a group of journalists, reviewers, agents, publishers, librarians and booksellers met to discuss the previous year’s Booker Prize award as it had been noted there were no women represented in the shortlist. In fact, women writers on the whole appeared to be sorely under represented across many literary prize awards. It was…

  • Study Apps

    Over the last academic year Learning Services have undertaken 2 projects to identify apps that can support study for our students. The first project, led by Andrew Billington, aimed to identify apps that could be used to support students with note taking, as a result of changes to the Disability Students Allowance. The second project,…

  • Learning Services On Location – bringing support to you!

    During May, Learning Services will be ‘On Location’ in your faculty to offer academic and administrative staff help and advice on a wide range of services.  Engaging with staff is key to our service and recent feedback from the academic staff survey highlighted that staff would find it very useful if we could be around…

  • Keep calm & submit this summer

    Advice for a stress free submission. First, please use the Chrome or Firefox browsers if you are submitting online.  Note that the default browser in Windows 10 is Edge – perhaps OK for surfing the net – but we believe it isn’t performing so well for ‘high stakes’ activity such as assignment submission.  We see a handful…