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Events from the 01 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Reset
Academic Skills: Business for non-Business students
Knowing what business-related resources the library has and how to use them could help you prepare for an interview, internship or job application.
08 February 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Elvet Room, Bill Bryson Library
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Using library databases – Social Sciences
It is vital for Social Sciences students to know what resources the library has and how to use them. This session will introduce you to key sources of eBooks, journal articles, digitised archives, media, and news and help you use them effectively.
09 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Using library databases – Science
It is vital for Science students to know what resources the library has and how to use. This session will introduce you to key sources of eBooks, journal articles, digitised archives, media, and news and help you use them effectively.
09 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Writing dissertations - support from the Library
Preparing to write a dissertation can be daunting, especially when it comes to the literature review. The Library has extensive research collections to use for dissertations and provides guidance on how to use them effectively.
15 February 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Elvet Room, Bill Bryson Library
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Introduction to Discover
Discover is the library search engine for locating and accessing books, eBooks, journal articles, theses, media and images. Using Discover effectively will save you time and energy and help contribute towards an efficient search strategy.
16 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Reading and evaluating sources critically
This session will show you how to critically evaluate sources and how to synthesise the ideas of others into your own writing, whilst accounting for your own subjective bias.
16 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Elvet Room, Bill Bryson Library
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Using eBooks effectively
Most reading lists contain eBooks, and they offer some advantages over their print equivalents.
22 February 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Elvet Room, Bill Bryson Library
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Avoiding plagiarism in your work
What is plagiarism and why is it unethical? How can students avoid it? Find out how in this bite-sized academic skills session.
23 February 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Using AI to construct a literature search
AI is helping streamline the literature searching process. Find out how in this bite-sized academic skills session.
23 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Understanding and addressing bias
Implicit bias affects everyone and is one of the many ways, sexism, racism, and discrimination manifest. In this bite-sized academic skills session, you will be introduced to ways you can begin to counter it in your own work.
01 March 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections