• Student Led Teaching Awards – now including personal tutors and support staff.

    Are you an excellent teacher? A personal tutor who goes above and beyond? Or are you a member of support staff who gives excellent support and great customer service? Well now your students can say thank you! For the past two years the Student Led Teaching Awards have been run by the Students’ Union and…

  • Can’t find the book you’re after? We’re here to help…

    What do you do when all the copies of that essential book are out on loan and you don’t have the time to wait for a reservation to come in? Well, don’t panic, there are several things you can do to find other books which may be equally as valuable. If you search for the…

  • World Book Night – 23rd April – Fancy a free book

    World Book Night – 23rd April – Fancy a free book

              Learning Services are celebrating World Book Night this year and we will be handing out free copies of books in the HUB on the 23rd April between 10am-2pm. World Book Night is a celebration of reading and books which sees tens of thousands of passionate volunteers gift specially chosen and printed WBN…

  • Spring clean your digital skills

    Staff Development Programme – Developing Digital Excellence Calling all staff, dust off your keyboard (sorry maybe taking the spring cleaning pun too far..) Staff from across Learning Services are delivering sessions this month around a number of themes.  There are three sessions from our Digital Practitioner series – maybe you might want to start with…

  • 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…

  • Easter vacation opening.

    Vacation opening hours are now underway at all our sites. Please check the website here for a full list of all opening hours. Please note There will be no midnight opening at the University Library, until w-c Monday 8th April, when term time opening re-commences Most Learning Services sites will be closed Good Friday – Easter…

  • Key IT tips

    Avoid extra stress at this time of year by following these hints and tips about safely saving your work. Two doubles and a single Double check where you’re saving your work to, don’t just trust in the quick save icon.  You’ve spent a great deal of time and taken great care in creating your work,…

  • Getting the best out of visiting the University Library

    Want to get the maximum results from your visit to the University Library, well here are some pointers for you to remember What area should I use for different types of study? Ground floor is for group and social work – we have 4 group rooms which are bookable , remember that the HUB is…

  • A Curtain Raiser on Technology!

              Tuesday 26th March sees the return of the Technology Roadshow! After the success of the last event held in the HUB, we are back in the University Library to showcase the latest technology developments with Learning Edge, the campus wi-fi, mobile apps and electronic library resources. We would be delighted…

  • 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…