Author: Amy Edwards

Are you struggling to find sources for your assignments? Don’t know where to start with your research? Come speak to a librarian.

Members of the Library Learning and Teaching Team will be on hand to answer your burning library and research questions. No need to book. Just drop-in and see us!

Are you struggling to find sources for your assignments? Don’t know where to start with your research? Come speak to a librarian.

Members of the Library Learning and Teaching Team will be on hand to answer your burning library and research questions. No need to book. Just drop-in and see us!

Are you struggling to find sources for your assignments? Don’t know where to start with your research? Come speak to a librarian.

Members of the Library Learning and Teaching Team will be on hand to answer your burning library and research questions. No need to book. Just drop-in and see us!

Are you struggling to find sources for your assignments? Don’t know where to start with your research? Come speak to a librarian.

Members of the Library Learning and Teaching Team will be on hand to answer your burning library and research questions. No need to book. Just drop-in and see us!

Are you struggling to find sources for your assignments? Don’t know where to start with your research? Come speak to a librarian.

Members of the Library Learning and Teaching Team will be on hand to answer your burning library and research questions. No need to book. Just drop-in and see us!

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.  

Join the meeting now

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

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.​

Join the meeting now

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

This 30-minute session is designed to give a brief overview of EndNote 21 and why you would use it to help organise and manage your research. The session will include a demonstration of a working EndNote library. In-depth sessions on each aspect will follow later in the month. 

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

• Setting up and Organising and 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 citation and a bibliography using Cite While You Write (CWYW) with MS Word.

Aimed at all staff and students level 6 and above.

​​Any questions please contact endnote@chester.ac.uk

Are you starting your literature review and don’t know where to start? This session is aimed at final year undergraduate 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:

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

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

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