The Discovery Service searches across many library resources, allowing you to carry out a single search and find relevant materials from lots of different ejournals, ebooks and other databases brought together in one Google-style search results list, but with reach and tools that surpass anything Google can manage. For many subjects, the Discovery Service is your one-stop-shop for academic search.
Learning is part art, part science, and a large part perseverance but there are some well-known tips and tricks that can make it a lot easier. Here are seven of my favourites.
For most people, it’s much easier to learn this from someone else than to read about it. Today, I’m going to outline the much simpler process of borrowing and returning books, and then explain how reservations and recalls work, which is something I skipped over in Tuesday’s already overlong post.
Giving yourself a gentle but thorough routine stretch and listening to a short podcast morning and evening helps reset the mind and can ease you into more new and healthy habits.
We’re helping a lot of students find the books they need for their course. While we always enjoy meeting you, it occurred to me that perhaps some of you might need a helping hand getting started finding books for yourselves. It is easier to show someone how to find a book than describe how to do so in writing, in fact it’s easier to actually find a book, but I’ll try to spell everything out anyway…
Get your bike registered and security tagged on Thursday 26 January. Portsmouth Council and local police will be stationed between the University Library and Ravelin Sports Centre, offering free bicycle tagging and registration. Tagged bicycles are less likely to be …
Whether you are getting started, getting on or getting stuck, there is a friendly librarian here to help. Perhaps you find yourself staring at an assignment that is staring back at you accusingly and are not sure where to start, or you are searching industriously for academic information relevant to your research topic and finding nothing, or you have found some interesting information but it doesn’t seem to be from an academic textbook or journal and you are unsure whether it can be trusted, or perhaps you have reached the end of your assignment and are happy with what you have written but are starting to worry about how to turn the mess of scribbled notes at the end into a properly formatted reference list. Your friendly neighbourhood librarian can help!
Nothing makes a person feel old like remembering a time before the students just arriving were born… or indeed before the internet. Even if you are just joining us, many of these things became obsolete in your lifetime. Prepare to feel very old suddenly as you watch this video about things that became obsolete since 2000!
Everyone’s ideal study space looks and feels different. That is why the Library comprises a whole series of spaces that look and feel very different. From the collaborative study spaces near the Library Café, which have an energising noise from …
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Did you know that postgraduate students have exclusive access to rooms variously set aside for individual silent study and group study.
