Looking after our wellbeing is always important and Wellbeing Week is a chance for us to highlight some of the ways we can do this. Wellbeing Week will take place between the 26th February to 1st March. A lot is happening both on campus and online; check out the website for all the details. See below […]
Love is in the air…
Our Valentine’s post box is filling up with many love letters (and a few break-up letters). If you haven’t written to us yet, write us a love letter or a break-up letter, to let us know how you feel about our library and IT services. You can leave us a message on our online suggestion board, or if […]
Signed, sealed, delivered… are we yours?
Throughout February we are running various Valentine’s activities to boost wellbeing as well as collecting vital feedback to shape our services. Love Letters to the Library Do you really love something? Or are you just fed up with us? Write us a love letter or a break-up letter, to let us know how you feel […]
Library Pizza Party
As part of the ongoing programme of engagement with our community, we held a pizza party in the library – yes, free pizza! OK, so the pizza may have been a sweetener (or should that be savoury-er?) to get some of you along to discuss some of the current plans for the library service and […]
Enhance your research with Nexis news content (Sign up for Workshops – 20th & 22nd February)
Whether you are following a single news story or researching cultural trends, political developments, current or historical issues or analysing the business environment and company performance, Nexis provides an invaluable source for primary and secondary research.Attend these workshops with LexisNexis trainer Marc Gillespie to enhance your research skills and extract relevant material from over 23,000 […]
Word Processing Your Dissertation
Dreading the word formatting part of your dissertation? Fear not! We’ve added a brand new section to the Canvas and Learning Technologies (Students) module which includes help, training videos, and a template document to drop your text into. From creating and saving a new document to creating styles to adding and editing footnotes, we’ve got it […]
IS achieves Customer Service Excellence accreditation.
We are delighted to announce a significant achievement for the University of Stirling’s Information Services – the attainment of Customer Service Excellence (CSE) accreditation. This prestigious recognition is a testament to our commitment to providing exceptional service to our students, faculty, and staff. What is Customer Service Excellence? Customer Service Excellence is a widely recognised […]
You said – We did
We like to think of ourselves as a listening service – we are always interested in your feedback and will do our best to improve our services based on your views. We regularly make changes based on feedback received through surveys, emails, social media, suggestion boards, conversations, and more. However you share your feedback, it […]
Historical Newspaper Archives
Newspaper articles can be a great source for an essay or dissertation on a historical topic. The Library offers a number of different online archives, but which archive should you use? Most of the resources below can be accessed from the A-Z list of Online Resources. Archives of single newspapersThe following British newspaper archives are all […]
Did somebody say pizza?
Read on to get a slice of the action… We’ll start from the top…ping Do you fancy some free pizza? If you answered yes and can spare an hour, we would be very grateful if you could participate in our focus group. The purpose of the focus group is a chance to tell us what we […]