The library has recently purchased the following e-books. Please take a look at them:
Electrical engineering:
Bird, J. Electrical circuit theory and technology
Tooley, M. Electronic circuits: fundamentals and applications
Robertson, C. Fundamental electrical and electronic principles
Health and social care:
Adams, G. Blackwell handbook of adolescence
Corby, B. Child abuse
The Library is now running a College Staff Book Club: Friday 25th May at 3.30pm–4pm (eduLab, Nuneaton College Library) will be our next meeting. The meetings will be held once every two weeks.
You don’t have to read a novel a fortnight; you can include anything from magazine/journal articles, samples from e-books, graphic novels, poems, Quick Reads: anything you like.
Whatever you’re currently reading for pleasure can be included.
You would just need to mention what you’re reading, what it’s about, what’s good about it, what could be done to improve what you’ve read etc.
Please feel free to join us!
Six iPads have arrived in the college libraries at Hinckley and Nuneaton. They may be borrowed by anyone for upto four hours or – by teaching staff – for a duration of a class or project.
In the next couple of weeks, different apps and accessories (cables, connectors etc.) will be purchased. There will be plenty of science, graphic design, music, photography and fine art apps, so the iPads could be used for revision and projects.
Pop in to the library to play and learn!
Loans across all sites – 1,031
Comparing to last year, the number of books, DVDs and equipment borrowed from the library slightly decreased (1,107).
Active borrowers – 405
More students and staff used the library to borrow resources comparing to the same month last year (290).
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We’d love to know how we are doing. Please tell us what you think and enter a prize draw to win one of five £10 high street vouchers. The results of the survey will be published on the Library blog and Facebook, in June 2012. Your name and student/staff number will be used only for the prize draw.
Please note that the college library is closed on bank holidays. This includes the forthcoming ’May Day’ bank holiday, which is Monday 7th May.
Please remember Heritage Online is fully accessible 24/7. This provides access to the library catalogue for searches and your library record should you wish to renew your library items.
Standard opening times resume Tuesday 8th May.
Today is a special day. Not only is it St. George’s Day and Shakespeare’s birthday, but it is also World Book Night.
Throughout the country, 20,000 people are giving out 1 million books to help share the joy of reading. The college library has been lucky enough to secure 24 copies of ‘The time traveler’s wife’ by Audrey Niffenegger which were given out this morning in the staff lounge at the Nuneaton site.
All copies were soon snapped up by eager staff! Happy reading folks, let us know if you enjoyed the book.
If you missed out but would still like to read ‘The time traveler’s wife’, there’s a copy in the college library, as well as the author’s second novel, ‘Her fearful symmetry’.
Loans across all sites – 1,654
Comparing to last year, the number of books, DVDs and equipment borrowed from the library decreased (1,810).
Active borrowers – 545
Fewer students and staff used the library to borrow resources comparing to the same month last year (628). Continue reading »
The library has recently purchased four new e-books based on the subjects of engineering and research:
Engineering:
Bird, J. Engineering mathematics
Bird, J. Higher engineering mathematics
Research:
Blaxter, L. How to do research
Lindsay, G. Researching children’s perspectives
More information about e-books.
Leisure Opportunities will be available at the Nuneaton site library. It is a fortnightly magazine full of news about what is going on in the leisure industry and job adverts. Backcopies can be issued out on a one week loan.
Therapy Today is a monthly magazine which our tutors and students on Counselling courses may find of interest. Copies are available at the Atherstone site.