The Library has a great resource called BoB (Box of Broadcasts). You can schedule and view TV and radio programmes as well as create your own clips and playlists on BoB. It’s accessible on and off campus within the UK via the My learning / Learning support pages in the portal. Find out more at: http://libguides.gre.ac.uk/BOB.
Month: October 2016
Library and Academic Skills Workshops 12/10/16
Come and drop by in B006 in Stockwell Street Library for our workshops on:
Managing Your Time 1pm & 4pm
Library Catalogue and Finding Books on the Shelves &
Using LibrarySearch 3pm
If you can’t make it you can contact the Academic Skills Team by email: Study-Skills@gre.ac.uk or your Academic Support Librarian: http://libguides.gre.ac.uk/librarians for help.
Postgraduate Research Room Stockwell Street Library
We are delighted to announce that as part of the Library’s summer refurbishment project, room 3005 in Stockwell Street Library has now been reconfigured as a silent study room exclusively for the use of PhD and MPhil postgraduate research students. The room contains 24 study carrels, each with a network PC.
Access to the room is controlled by your Greenwich Gateway Card.
Conditions of use are consistent with the rest of the third floor: silent study; no eating; lidded drinks only; no phone conversations.
Please note that any group activity work can be undertaken in the bookable study rooms.
Please let us know how this study space can be developed to best support you by contacting Helene Mallauran User Services Manager: h.a.m.mallauran@gre.ac.uk
There is a wide range of computing and study facilities available at Stockwell Street Library, to meet the various needs of our students. These include bookable group study rooms, and open access computer rooms .
To book a study room, visit the Library Group Study Rooms channel in the Library & Computing tab in the portal.
Battle of Ideas Festival: 22-23 October, Barbican
IMMUNOCORE STUDENT CHAMPION TICKETS
In partnership with Immunocore, the Battle of Ideas has announced that they have a number of discounted Student Champion 2016 weekend tickets for current undergraduates and postgraduates – priced at £27.50 a huge saving on the normal concession rate.
The Battle of Ideas is a festival of free-thought and a celebration of powerful, thought-provoking argument. Organised by The Institute of Ideas, it provides an annual forum to discuss and debate some of the most urgent and influential ideas of our time. And given the rise of Trump and the recent Brexit vote, the festival has never seemed more important and urgent.
The festival will take place on the weekend of the 22 and 23 October at the Barbicanin London. The festival will see over 3000 delegates attending more than 100 sessions, as hundreds of speakers from across the globe, representing a wide range of disciplines and viewpoints, tackle some of the most pressing issues of our time.
If you are inquisitive, intellectually curious, and interested in the world around you, do join us for a weekend of high-level, thought-provoking, public debate at the Battle of Ideas festival, organised by the Institute of Ideas!
Your ticket will give you access to the entire weekend programme, including debates such as:
The new populism · Can America be great again? · Generational Inequality – Who should pay for the future? · Why, Robot?Can we teach AI to be ethical? · Decolonising education: is the curriculum ‘too white’? · Cultural appropriation: homage or theft? – Religious education in a secular age and many more.
Themed strands of discussion include: Gender Wars · Battle for Education · Technology and Ethics · Emotional Intelligence · Utopias · Culture Wars · The future now: science and technology · Millennial Dilemmas and more.
FULL PROGRAMME DETAILS: HERE
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE HERE
New FT.com website launch
Business students and staff have access to the FT.com on and off campus via the portal. Once you register as a member of the university on campus, you can use the FT.com from any device. This short video outlines the new features.
- The new website should be faster and clearer.
- Completely mobile optimised, offering a consistent and enjoyable experience across all devices.
- Pages load up to 2.5x faster than before – bringing your the same trusted news and insight you rely on, but faster.
- Personalisation and time-saving tools – with myFT you can add and track your topics of interest, save articles to read later and set up instant, daily or weekly email digests on the topics you follow – all in one place.
Library and Academic Skills Workshops 5/10/16
Come and drop by in B006 in Stockwell Street Library for our workshops on:
Tips for new students 1pm & 4pm
Plotters and Printers 2pm &
Using LibrarySearch 3pm
If you can’t make it you can contact the Academic Skills Team by email: Study-Skills@gre.ac.uk or your Academic Support Librarian: http://libguides.gre.ac.uk/librarians for help.
