Great news! The silent study space on Level 6 of the Northampton Square Library has now reopened, providing nearly 200 silent study spaces. We had to close the floor for the autumn term to allow disruptive surveying work to take place: this was in preparation for the proposed development of Level 7. The additional silent study space in B411C (Level 4 of the University Building) remains open Mon-Fri 08:30-18:00.
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CityLibrary gains Customer Service Excellence Standard
Posted in Cass, Cass Business School, City Law School, GIP, IC, NSQ, School of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Service Announcements, SMCSE, and Uncategorized
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 and staff, who assisted in talking with the CSE assessors and who help us run a successful service in different ways. Social Media Our assessors picked up on several factors relating to our relationship with our students. Our social media game was praised as being…
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Hold that thought: Mind Mapping with MindGenius
Posted in Accessibility, Cass, Cass Business School, City Law School, GIP, IC, Long read, New Resource, New Resources, NSQ, Online Resources, School of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, and SMCSE
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 be particularly useful for Neurodiverse profiles such as Dyslexic learners. Mindmapping is a way of graphically representing a topic, concept or problem, so we can visualise it, making it easier to understand. Mindmapping is a versatile technique which can have many applications. Here are some…
Find your Library Guide
Posted in Cass Business School, City Law School, Library Essentials, Library Loves, Online Resources, Recommended by our library staff, Research, School of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, and SMCSE
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 to use in your assignments and research. You’ll also find other helpful information such as details of library workshops or contact information for your Librarian. As well as Subject Guides you’ll also find links to Help Guides and Library Service Guides which cover topics such…
Attention Bloomberg users: Bloomberg has delivered a new API that you can use to download and save data from Bloomberg through the Bloomberg Excel Add-in. Introducing: Bloomberg Query Language (BQL). It works by: Consolidating fields Reducing the number of tickers you have to list Aggregating data Why use it? You can do more in Bloomberg without hitting Bloomberg’s download limit. This is because BQL uses much less data than the traditional way of using data in Bloomberg. Rather than taking the raw data and doing the calculations in Excel or another application, Bloomberg does the calculations for you…