Missed your Library Matters Live?

Library Matters Live sessions have now finished for this year.  We hope those of you who attended found them a useful introduction to Library & Information Services (LIS). 

If you missed yours or you want a refresher, don't worry!  You can dowload the presentation slides and an audio tour for the Library from the Library Matters Live webpage.  There will also be staff members available to introduction you to LIS, demonstrate the Library SmartSearch and answer your questions in the Foyer of the Library from 11am to 2pm every day next week (8th - 12th October).  They will even have some left-over goodie bags, so you can get your free stuff from them!

And don't forget, you can always get help and support from the Help Desk on the ground floor of the Library.

Welcome to Aston University Library & Information Services, and good luck with your course!

Library Prize Winners

Library Matters Live
1795 of you attended a Library Matters Live Induction session.
Thank you for your participation and feedback.
The following students won prizes:

• Hayley - a £150 Waterstone voucher donated by Scopus.
• Nikol - £50 John Smith's voucher donated by John Smith's campus bookshop.
• Jayniz - £100 Bullring voucher donated by Aston University LIS.
• Nabila - iPad donated by Emerald

Library Laptop Survey
607 of you completed the survey.
Thank you for your participation and feedback.
Findings will be shared soon.

• Anish was the lucky winner of a Kindle, donated by Proquest.

Library Matters Live Sessions

Dear Students,

The Library Matters Live timetable for this week (3rd October - 7th October) has changed to due to clashes with your programme timetable. Please view the Library Matters Live webpages to see the changes and make a note of your session.

If you haven't attended a Library Matters Live session and your degree is not listed on this week's timetable please ask for assistance at the Library Help Desk, Ground Floor of the Library Building.

Assignment drop-in sessions

Need help finding information for your assignment?

Having trouble accessing journal articles?

Confused by all the information out there, and don't know where to start?

Don't panic!! Just drop-in to one of our sessions on the ground floor of the Library next week, and a friendly Information Specialist will be on hand to answer all your questions.

Monday 30th November to Friday 4th December 12-2, see you there :-)

If you have any queries or comments about this, please add your comments below

Assignment drop-in sessions

Need help finding information for your assignment?

Having trouble accessing journal articles?

Confused by all the information out there, and don't know where to start?

Don't panic!! Just drop-in to one of our sessions on the ground floor of the Library next week, and a friendly Information Specialist will be on hand to answer all your questions.

Monday 2nd November to Friday 6th November 12-2, see you there :-)

Library Matters Live Success!

was the title of our Library Introduction Sessions for all new Aston students. This year Aston welcomed 3,692 new University students, and staff in the Library met 2,313 of you during Welcome Weeks one, two and the first week of term!

Many of you were introduced in person to your Information Specialist and the majority of you were able to see at first hand Library Catalogue, self service machine and printing demonstrations. At the end of each Library Matters Live session those present were asked to fill out an evaluation form with entry to win £100 Bullring shopping centre voucher; a winner has now been chosen and notified.

From analysis of the forms filled in 72% were happy with the content of these sessions. We had hundreds of positive comments about the practical demonstrations that we gave for the first time this year and many comments regarding wanting to know more about Library facilities and resources.

Now that we are settling into Term 1 we hope that this introduction has given you a good starting point in the use you can make of the entire Library. Don’t forget to look out for future Library sessions that appear on your timetable and remember we are here to help you make the best use of all the resources available so don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you need any further help.