The Academic Liaison teams run Library Skills webinars throughout the year. Topics include how to find academic sources of information​, how to conduct a systematic review, and more. 

Check out the schedule for July below.

If you miss any of our sessions and want to catch up please visit our Library Skills video channel. You can also listen to the Library Podcast series for more information.

If you have any questions about the sessions, please let us know by contacting academiclibrarians@chester.ac.uk​ or  lis.helpdesk@chester.ac.uk ​

You can also book a 1-2-1 appointment​ to get further support using our resources.

Literature searching for your systematic review

• Tuesday 1 July
• 10.30am-11.30am
• Teams link to join the meeting

A​​ considered, replicable, transparent literature search forms the basis of a systematic review. Learn how to plan and construct an effective literature search, gain advice on where to look for the most relevant literature for your discipline, and suggestions for documenting your search and search results.

​​​This session will enable you to:

​​- Think strategically and critically about your literature search

• ​​Think strategically and critically about your literature search
• Create a search strategy for a systematic literature search
• Identify key relevant resources for your search
• Apply advanced search techniques and retrieve relevant literature.

Any questions please contact Debbie Spencer  d.spencer@chester.ac.uk

Need help finding education journal articles? Session for School of Education students

• Thursday 10 July
• 5pm-6pm
• Teams link to join the session 

T​his session will focus on advanced search strategies using the Education databases.
It will enable you to find relevant journal articles for your assignments.
It is also an opportunity for you to pop along with any library related questions that you might have.

Any questions please contact Anne Williams    a.williams@chester.ac.uk

Dissertation literature: where do I begin?

• Wednesday 16 July
• 12pm-1pm
• Teams link to join the session
  

Are you starting your literature review and don’t know where to start?

This session is aimed at final year undergraudate and postgraduate students and will help you to plan your searches and use time saving search techniques to find the most relevant academic sources. Learn how to use subject specific databases to find high quality academic journals and research papers.

This session will enable you to:

• Discover some subject specific resources​​
• Develop an awareness of different search techniques

Any questions please contact Caitlyn Hallman-Lewis  c.hallmanlewis@chester.ac.uk

​Introduction to using EndNote 21​​​

• Thursday 17 July
• 11am-12pm
• Teams link to join the session

This session will demonstrate how to use EndNote bibliographic software. It will include: 

• Setting up and organising an EndNote library. 
• Adding references to a library using manual or direct export (from subject databases and Library Search) 
• How to attach a PDF to an EndNote record 
• How to choose a reference style and create in-text citations and a bibliography using Cite While you Write with MS Word. 

Aimed at all staff and students level 6 and above  

Any questions please contact endnote@chester.ac.uk

Using NHS Library resources – Skills for Life

• Tuesday 29 July
• 11am-12pm
• Teams link to join the session

In this session, Debbie Spencer, Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Chester, will be joined by NHS Librarian, John Gale. They will provide practical tips on how to use the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub which will be invaluable as you prepare to embark on your career working in the NHS.

The Hub is a search tool to connect NHS staff to knowledge and evidence resources in one place. It includes online journals, e-books and databases and clinical decision support resources including NICE Guidelines and BMJ Best Practice.

Whether you need published knowledge and evidence for patient care, management decision-making, education or research, or just professional curiosity, the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub will provide you with a great place to start your search.​

Any questions please contact Debbie Spencer      d.spencer@chester.ac.uk

Guide to streaming audio-visual resources ​

• Wednesday 30 July
• 11.30am-12.15pm
• Teams link to join the session

Did you know that the University subscribes to a wide range of audio and video streaming platforms, that you can access 24/7 for your research? Stream film, documentary, theatre, television, music, dance, plus training videos to your device via Portal. This session will show you how to locate:​

• Box of Broadcasts (TV, documentaries and film)
• Kanopy Film (film/documentaries/recorded talks/training videos)
• Naxos Music (music streaming – classical)
• Rocks Back Pages (musical streaming and music journalism/magazines).   Digital Theatre Plus (stream entire recorded theatre productions and dramatology/writers, directors and performance criticism.

All students are welcome to this session, it might be particularly helpful for Music, Media and Performance, Social and Political Science, Humanities, Education and Business.  

Any questions please contact​ Nicola Darrah n.darrah@chester.ac.uk