As we move into the middle of the year, this would be an opportune time to remind you of the services the Library provides to aid you in both your teaching and your research.
We offer library skills sessions for postgraduate students, either in using the databases or in EndNote. As there are so many changes to our online databases and journals each year we strongly advise your students to attend a session annually so as to make the best use of library resources. If you would like the Library to run an information skills or EndNote class for your students in the second semester, now would be a good time to book.
Liaison Librarians are happy to arrange training sessions for your Department or School, for small groups or for individuals. We can teach you how to search specialist resources like Brookers, GMID and Infos.
If you have developed a WebCT course, or intend to develop one, you can insert links so that your students can access journal articles electronically. We can help you identify citations and facilitate the provision of a stable URL for your WebCT page. Alternatively we can prepare dynamic searches that can be hosted on your WebCT pages which will bring the latest research on a topic to your students.
Staff, as well as postgraduate students, can come and sit down with Liaison Librarians for a research consultation. This is a chance for more focussed help on specific topics and can provide the basis for ongoing contact between a researcher and the Library over the course of their research.
The Liaison Librarians purchase books for the collection on a regular basis via profile alerts from major publishing agents and through continued reading of reviews. We also receive notification from Bennetts of titles which are set and recommended texts. We are more than happy to receive recommendations from staff so if you wish to recommend a title for purchase, you can either contact us directly, or fill out the suggest an item for purchase form on the Library web site.
The Library holds an annual serials review. Any suggestions for subscription can be forwarded to a Liaison Librarian. In general, serials reviews need to be cost neutral, so any recommended new titles will need to be accompanied by some suggestions for cancellations of an equivalent value.
We are available to meet with you and your colleagues to discuss the collections held by the library, any of these services and also new initiatives such as the Digital Commons.
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