Study Skills/Assignment help

Don't forget that there are Learning Assistants available if you need some help finishing off assignments at the end of this year. If you are struggling to understand your essay question or can't think of what research to do come into the Library at any of the three sites and there should be someone who can sit down with you and go through your work.
There are also study skills leaflets available covering areas such as IT, Exams and Revision, Assignments and How to Study. Ask a member of Library staff if you would like more information.

Example of one of the study skills leaflets available.

Short Story winners

A big well done to all the people who took part in this year's Short Story Competition. There were a lot of entries and the judges had a tricky time deciding on the winners, due to the high standard of the writing. But this decision had to be made and so here they are.
1st Prize- New Kitchen (author has decided to remain anonymous)
2nd Prize- A Dream of Freedom (Corrinne Bosworth)
3rd Prize- Laura's Never Treasure (Claire Durbin)

Here is an extract from the winning entry.
Domestic disharmony turns into something more sinister in New Kitchen
"Poor downtrodden George, all he wanted was a calm and content home life, well maybe not the content part. George never expected much from life, but if only Kitty would stop cheeping in his ear incessantly, day in, day out. It never stopped, she wouldn't stop and he was sure she couldn't."

Good job everyone, look forward to reading next year's entries.

We've moved!!

As most of you are probably aware the Library at Booth Lane has moved and is now located in E building (the round one) in the new site. The library staff from all three sites worked hard on our last day in the old library, packing books into crates. Some of us were doing that from 8.45am until 7pm and it sometimes felt like a lot longer!! Our Library Manager finished the job on her own, the next day. As you can imagine there were some aching limbs for a few days, but no time for a rest, as all the boxes had to be unpacked in the new build the following week. We got it done though- real team effort, well done everyone!! Big thanks to Danny, who helped us so much, kept us motivated and put up with all our unreasonable demands. Hope you all agree it was worth the effort; the new Library does look amazing.

The Moving Story- click on the picture to enlarge it

From the start of packing in the old place all the way through to Danny putting the very last book on the shelf in the new Library. There are lots more pictures but I would never be forgiven by my colleagues if I put some of them on here. It was a lot of hard work but we did have some fun and we hope you agree that the finished result is definately worth it.