• Did you know?…..Learning Services can help with your ICT skills.

    The ICT staff development co-ordinator Elaine Czotter is based in the Learning Services Academic Support Division. You can usually find her in the staff office or the development room in the LINC building. She delivers a range of workshops throughout the academic year and is the British Computer Society (BCS) Approved Centre Manager for ECDL…

  • Revising for exams?

    Take the anxiety out of exams by getting ahead of the game with your revision. Anybody can learn and apply exam techniques. You’ll be surprised at the amount of study skills you already have that can be adapted for exam revision. The crucial starting point is in managing your time and planning your revision carefully.…

  • Did You Know?…..stuff worth knowing about Learning Services

    Over the coming weeks we will be posting a series of ‘Did You Know ?’ blogs focused on keeping you up to date in relation to key support services available from the teams within Learning Services. Our aim is to encourage staff and students to get the most of out of our services and to point…

  • Ask a librarian!

    Always wanted to know how to access the resources for your specific subject? Want some advice and guidance from a librarian in how to get the best out of the resources that the Library has to offer? If so then we can help you!  Subject librarians are available and ‘on call’  now to answer any of your subject enquiries.  We…

  • Collaboration for Success

    On Monday 28th March a new work-based MA Education Programme, from the Faculty of Education, was approved (with some conditions) at Institutional validation and notably received a commendation for the “teamwork and the holistic approach to the intelligent use of technology”. This is welcome recognition of the invaluable collaborations between Faculties and Learning Services which…

  • Late Night Library……What are your thoughts?

    What do you think of Late Night Library? Good Idea……? We know lots of you are making use of it but we’d really like some feedback. If you’ve got time please fill in one of the postcards dotted about in the Library and post it in one of the boxes on the Help Desks or e-mail…

  • Emerging Technologies

    On the 29th March the Learning Technology Development Team are offering their second staff information exchange session in this series: Coming of Age: Professionalising the Blog Do you have an image and message you need to get out to a wider audience? Are you a blogger or thinking about starting a professional blog that focuses…

  • Holy grail found by librarians?…

    Four weeks into the trial of two discovery services, EBSCO and Summon,  which offer a single box to search our databases, e-books, full-text journals and the library catalogue, and opinion is divided on which of the two will best meet our needs.  The tools provide the best of both worlds: the ease of a google-type search facility combined with results from academic resources…

  • Emerging Technologies

    This week sees delivery of the first in a series of sessions on Emerging Technologies from the Learning Technology Development Team: QR Codes: Bridging paper and web? Have you seen code blocks similar to this appearing in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards, or on just about any object about which people might need information? Have…

  • Student Union interview – ‘late night library’

    We have had lots of interest and enquiries from customers about phase 2 of ‘late night library’.  The Student Union invited me for a short interview to explain the reasons behind the pilot and talk about our range of support for students….you can listen to the interview via this podcast! We hope we can work more with…