City’s Library Services Team has been awarded the Customer Service Excellence (CSE) Standard. The standard assesses a huge number of elements and criteria, including feedback from library users, to determine the highest quality service. This is something we could not have achieved if it was not for the help of our wonderful customers, both students…Continue Reading CityLibrary gains Customer Service Excellence Standard
Understanding, organising and retaining information can be challenging. While studying and working we often need to compose and organise our written work, understand complex topics and retain information. Mindmapping can be an excellent tool to help us meet these challenges. Depending on the task at hand mindmapping can be useful for almost everyone, but can…Continue Reading Hold that thought: Mind Mapping with MindGenius
City Library Guides bring together the essential resources in your subject area and connect you quickly and easily to information about Library Services. From the Library Guides homepage select your school to see the Subject Guides relevant to you. In each of these guides your Librarians have gathered together the most important resources for you…Continue Reading Find your Library Guide
Starting university can be daunting, with lots of new things to get to grips with…including citing and referencing! Citing and referencing is how you acknowledge the articles, books, cases, legislation and other resources that you used when creating your academic work. Accurate citing and referencing is good academic practice, it enhances the presentation of your…Continue Reading Citing and referencing for law: how the Law Library team can help you with OSCOLA
The Law Team works across two libraries, Gray’s Inn Place Library and Law Library College Building. The team makes sure both libraries run smoothly throughout the week, checking the environment and answering students’ questions. The team is made up of the following people: Martin Edwards – User Services Librarian Martin is the User Services Librarian….Continue Reading Meet the Team: Law Team
All City staff and students have access to the Times Higher Education (THE) online via Library Services’s subscription. THE contains global higher education coverage including world university rankings, news, opinions and features. You can read online articles, digital editions and download the app to your own personal device. To set up your THE account, go…Continue Reading Access the Times Higher Education (THE) online
Since 2013, CityLibrary has given students the chance to help choose the books we have through the More Books scheme. So far, just over 2000 books have been bought. You can find a selection of these on display on Levels 4 and 5 of the Northampton Square Library, as well as below in our virtual…Continue Reading More Books: You choose, we’re all ears
Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) is a database which brings together decisions on public international law from international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals, with: Analytical commentary Full text of the opinions of the court Lists of cases and instruments cited The case law within ORIL is divided into modules, you can access…Continue Reading Oxford Reports on International Law
Library Services subscribes to JustisOne, an online resource that gives you access to UK case law and legislation. In a previous blog post we explained how to log in. Below is a quick guide on how to search for cases and legislation. How to search for a case You can do a simple search from…Continue Reading JustisOne – Search for cases and legislation
Library Services has subscribed to a new online resource, JustisOne, which gives you access to UK case law and legislation. To help you get familiar with it, we will publish a couple of blog posts. In this one, we will give a brief overview on the kind of material you can access and how to…Continue Reading JustisOne