Love of Learning Goes On
28 March 2013
Love Your Library Week events were staged by the Kedleston Road library (pictured).
LEI is building on the success of its Love Your Library Week to encourage those who attended taster workshops and demonstrations to carry on using library, careers, and study skills resources and services.
The annual Love Your Library Week at the Kedleston Road site and Buxton Campus libraries featured a variety of taster sessions. Topics included:
- The Book of Love (Cite Them Right)
- Matchmaking (reserving books)
- Declaring your True Intentions (writing a literature review)
- Like us or love us! (Social media and what it can do for you).
There were also demonstrations of University electronic resources including e-books and subject databases.
In addition, sessions from the Career Development Centre were offered to help students prepare for life after their degree. The sessions were open to all students and some lecturers recommended that students attend at least one session as part of a study skills or PDP module.
The Love Your Library Week theme was carried through by holding events during the week of February 11 - 15, which includes Valentine's Day (February 14).
Students who attended the sessions found them useful and particularly liked the short informal nature of the sessions with the opportunity to ask questions and participate. Comments included:
"Now that I know more, especially about journals and e-books, and understand how to use the various processes I believe my research ability has improved. Let's hope I can reflect this in my writing too!" (MA Humanities student).
And
"I attended the Turnitin session and found it very useful. It gave me the confidence to use the electronic facility and the procedure was not as daunting as I thought it might be." (Second-year Creative Writing student).
Rene Phillips, an MA Humanities student, won a prize draw to win a hamper full of Thornton's chocolates, held for students who attended three of the week's sessions or more.
For further information about the libraries, the Careers Service and study skills contact your Subject Librarian, via web link
www.derby.ac.uk/library/subject-librarians), Careers Advisor (
www.derby.ac.uk/careers/careersadvice) or for Study Skills see
www.derby.ac.uk/library/study-skills
