How to study: one for the students!

This short piece from the British Psychological Society’s research blog offers “three unintuitive but very effective ways of studying based on findings from psychological research”. In short: space your study sessions out; text yourself regularly; and summarise and integrate before moving on to the next session. So stop cramming, take a break and find ways to summarise what you have just learnt! This doesn’t just have to be in note form – I loved mind mapping when studying for my degree. It works! (Any excuse to get the coloured pencils out…)

Book Buying Event!!!

To all staff…read on!

Dates: 10^th – 14^th Dec 2007Time: 9.30 – 13.00

Venue: Peirson Library

Includes: Opportunity to meet with the Subject Collections Librarians, order texts for your students, ask any collections-related questions, even bring your reading lists along! And…there will be demonstrations of electronic ordering and ‘Slipstream’, the new books alerting service from our main book supplier. 

Please, please come and spread the word as this event has not always been that well attended, but it is a fantastic opportunity to address that old chestnut “The Library never has the books I want…”