Tag Archives: Information skills

What do you want to learn today?

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wordle3Come along to the Pop-up Library between 2-4pm on Wednesday 5th November to find out about free taught courses and online resources in information technology from IS Skills.

We have learning opportunities in:

  • Basic IT, library and bibliography
  • Learning technologies
  • Posters, presentations and design
  • Programming and operating systems
  • Spreadsheets, data analysis and management tools
  • Web publishing
  • Working collaboratively
  • Working with text

Our courses can help you to create an engaging presentation, format your thesis in Word 2013, learn a new programming language, and get your referencing right.

You can also help influence the courses we provide in the future by filling in our short survey to tell us what you want to learn about and how you prefer to learn.

Catherine Koppe, IS Skills team

Get the best from the Library week @Pop-up Library

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IFAll next week, 27th-31st October, the afternoon Pop-up Library sessions are being taken over by the Library Academic Support team for Get the Best from the Library Week.

Get the Best from the Library Week is all about helping you find out more about how the Library can work for you at the University of Edinburgh. So why not pop up and meet us at the 1st floor, Main Library between 2-4pm every day next week.

During the Get the Best from the Library Week you can:

  • Discover the full range of information resources available to you
  • Find out about new resources purchased recently
  • Get one-to-one support from a library specialist in your subject area

The Library Academic Support team provides support to staff and students for all matters relating to library services, so no matter what your question is, we aim to help.

You can find out what subject areas are being covered each afternoon from the Get the Best from the Library Week timetable.

Hope to see you there!

Brought to you by the Library Academic Support Team.

Finding a thesis

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Visit us today at the Pop Up Library on level 1 of the Main Library to get ideas and advice around theses. We’ll be there between 10am and noon.Find a thesis

  • Learn what resources you can use to find out about theses on topics you’re researching.
  • Find out how you can read a thesis you know is of interest.

If you can’t make it on the day, have a look a the Subject Guide to Theses or get in touch with your Academic Support Librarian.

Finding a thesis

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Visit us at tomorrow at Library Pop Up on level 1 of the Main Library to get ideas and advice around theses. We’ll be there between 10am and noon..Find a thesis

  • Learn what resources you can use to find out about theses on topics you’re researching.
  • Find out how you can read a thesis you know is of interest.

If you can’t make it on the day, have a look a the Subject Guide to Theses or get in touch with your Academic Support Librarian.

Finding a thesis

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Visit us at the Pop Up Library on level 1 of the Main Library to get ideas and advice around theses. We’ll be there between 10am and noon on Thursday 2nd October.Find a thesis

  • Learn what to use to find theses on topics you’re researching.
  • Find out how you can read a thesis you know is of interest.

If you can’t make it on the day, have a look a the Subject Guide to Theses or get in touch with your Academic Support Librarian.

 

Library Pop – Get Library Smart!

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Library-Pop-Bottle_White_bl smallCome and meet members of the Library Academic Support team at the Pop up Library at 11am on Tuesday 8 September and find out more about the new Get Library Smart information skills resource. Newly developed from materials written for students by the Library Academic Support Team, this resource aims to help everyone at the University of Edinburgh get the best from the Library.  As well as a toolkit to help you  get your hands on the library materials you need, you’ll find step by step guides through the library experience of searching, discovering and managing  information. What’s more, we’ll regularly be delivering bite-sized chunks in blog form to answer key questions and signpost you to what’s relevant for your subject. http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/infoskills/

Christine Love-Rodgers, Library Academic Support Team