Murder in the Information Store

Come over to the Information Store stand at Freshers next week to pick up the first clue to work out whodunnit.

There's a Waterstones voucher up for grabs!

Can you find the body???? Enter at your own risk......

The Creative Writing Society

Welcome!

Welcome to a new academic year. 

 

A very warm welcome to all new and returning students from The Information Store. We hope you had a wonderful and relaxing summer holiday and are ready for the new academic year 2012/2013 and that you’ll enjoy the library and the college. We hope you will spend enough time studying, reading or browsing the resources in the Information Store.

Please take time to browse the links under ‘The Information Store’ and ‘Information Store Catalogue’ tabs on Blackboard, where you’ll find lots of useful information for your studies. You can access the library catalogue, e-books and other subject and electronic resources, help with referencing, FAQs, useful video tutorials, PowerPoint presentations, help sheets, as well as find our opening hours and contact details. 

After clicking on ‘Information Store Catalogue’ link, it is also possible to access your library account (top right of the page) by using your student number and PIN (for more information about your PIN number, please contact the issue desk).

You can also subscribe to our library blog updates and get the latest news directly to your inbox. Simply go to the heading Subscribe Via Email on the right, type in your email address and click on ‘Subscribe!’ If you have any feedback, queries or comments, please let us know.

Good luck with your studies; we’re wishing you all all the best in the new term and a great year ahead!

For this week only - fines amnesty for FE students!!

Fines Amnesty for FE students!

One book can change a life – your chance to make a real difference!

Help us to make a difference by donating your unwanted books to Betterworld. You will be supporting education and literacy as well as keeping them out of landfill.

Please bring your books to the CCN Information Store and we will organise their collection by BetterWorldBooks - a global company that sells books online to fund literacy initiatives and which donates books worldwide.

Based on the 8,469 books which the CCN Information Store has sent to BetterWorldBooks so far, we have:

-       Raised £ 279.48 for a literacy charity

-   Raised £1,988.05 for the Norwich-Dedza partnership, funding school and college scholarships.

-   Saved 135.5 trees

-   Saved 17 cubic metres of Landfill Space

-   Saved 302,360 litres of water

-   Saved 27,930 KwH of electricity

-   Saved 5.4 Tons of greenhouse gasses

If you have any unwanted books at home, please bring them in to the Information Store!

http://www.betterworldbooks.co.uk/

Where does the money go?

Once BetterWorldBooks has covered their administrative costs, the proceeds from the book sales will be divided between two charities:  Norwich-Dedza Partnership and National Literacy Trust.

Norwich – Dedza Partnership is a charity that develops and supports practical links between Norwich, UK and Dedza in central Malawi. Projects undertaken so far have included educational  links, the promotion of tourism in Dedza, the sustainable development of a rock art site,  IT support and health promotion. 

For more information, please visit:

http://www.norwich-dedza.org/home.asp

Internet Safety Awareness

The Internet is a great way to see more, learn more and have lots of fun. To help you enjoy it safely, you should follow the ‘Click Clever, Click Safe Code’. It's just three simple things to remember that can help keep you safe when you visit your favourite websites.

Visit our Internet Safety awareness display in the Information Store and learn how to stay safe on the Internet.

Information Store help zone

Don't forget that you can get help from Information Store staff between 11am - 2pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays.  We can help with searching for information resources for your assignments, catalogue searching, online research, database searching, e-books and lots more…

Help is available in the HE Zone reception area (also known as the Information Store B Hub), which is now reserved on Wednesdays and Thursdays just for this purpose between 11am-2pm.

World Book Night

We are celebrating a World Book Night on Monday 23rd April 2012 between 1pm - 3pm.

Similar to last year, the Information Store will be giving away free books. 

We will offer 24 copies of ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy

              and 24 copies of the ‘Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak.

We are looking forward seeing you in the Information Store!

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter from everyone in the Information Store!

We hope you eggs-perience an egg-cited and egg-cellent egg-ceedingly beautiful Easter!