Don’t let it be you! Every week we get heartbreaking tales from students who have forgotten to back up their vital work, dissertations, coursework assignments, job applications and more to their N-drive and whose memory stick has been left in a …
I’ve just rushed over to Eldon to staff the Library ‘pop-up’ in the Blank Canvas – Lizzie and I have been helping out the Academic Skills team by answering some of the many referencing enquiries they’ve been getting. Anyway, I’ve …
Did you know you can bring your own laptop to the Library? You can connect wirelessly to the University network or plug into the network on the ground floor using an ethernet cable for an even faster and more reliable …
Digital Drawing for Designers: a visual guide to AutoCAD 2015 by Douglas R. Seidler. Books in the 620s aren’t often very attractive to look at but this is an exception in being both well-designed and containing a feast of illustrations …
In recent weeks I have spent quite a lot of time working with students in the School of Creative Technologies and so I have selected ZBrush Character Sculpting: Projects, tips & techniques from the masters as my book of the …
One of the forefathers of modern computing and information retrieval, George Boole was born 200 years ago today. Google has celebrated today with a characteristically fun Doodle.
Cable and cloud Did you know you can get fast reliable wireless internet access anywhere on campus and actually plug your laptop into the network for an even more reliable cabled connection across the Library ground floor? Bring your own …
Due to scheduled maintenance, the e-resource IEEE Xplore will be unavailable from 2pm – 5pm British Summer Time on Saturday, 24 October. The suppliers apologise for any inconvinience. If you need further information, please contact elibrary@port.ac.uk
Chrome is now by far the most popular browser (W3 Schools, 2015) and it has some really useful features and featured apps that can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store to make it even more useful. Here are a few …
The old methods of reading text from a page or screen and writing or typing are no longer the only ways you can work and learn. Many people find reading and absorbing large volumes of text tiring, difficult, or just plain …
