This Saturday (14th October), there will be an Open Day and a visit by Hillary Rodham Clinton to Bay Campus. In order to facilitate the large number of expected visitors and to maintain security, there will be some changes to parking, bus routes and building access at Bay Campus this weekend. This includes access to Bay Library, which will close at 5pm Friday and re-open by 9pm on Saturday. Please check library Twitter and Facebook accounts for further updates.
We apologise for any inconvenience this causes. Our other libraries remain open as usual, though please do remember the Open Day includes Singleton Park Campus, so the library and campus may be busy with visitors. If you are traveling to or from Bay Campus or Singleton Park Campus on Saturday, please check the Open Day travel information.
Allison Jones has recently joined the team of Subject Librarians for the School of Management and the College of Engineering. Allison will be based in the Bay Library.
Allison has previously worked as a Subject Librarian for Business, Engineering, Sports, Health and Outdoor Education at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Allison has previously been employed at Swansea University and is a graduate from Swansea University.
Allison’s role will include teaching information literacy skills and one-to-one support, amongst other things. She has an extensive training background and has worked with disadvantaged communities and individuals with specific needs.
She has a Masters in Information and Library studies from Aberystwyth University, is a Chartered member of the Charted Institute of Library and Information Professional (CILIP) and is also a training member for the Information Literacy Group within CILIP.
We have important news for users of the popular free referencing tool RefMe. It has been announced today that RefMe will be changing to Cite This For Me on February 28th 2017. Full details on this news can be found on the RefMe website.
If you have a RefMe account you will still have access to your account and saved Reference lists until June 1st, 2017, but you will need to export them before this date or you will lose them.
If you want to create an account for Cite This For Me it will cost £6.99 a month but you are able to generate a reference list without creating an account. However without an account your reference list won’t be saved for future use.
There are a number of reference management tools on the market and Swansea University’s supported solution is EndNote. This comes in a free online version and the full desktop software, which is available on open access PCs in the library. As well as storing all your bibliographic references, EndNote can find and store PDFs plus it integrates neatly with Word to insert and format references. If you’d like to find out more about EndNote please look at our EndNote Library Guide.
In response to student feedback, Bay Library’s PC Room 2 will be for silent study from today. We will trial this for the term, so please send your comments to buslib@swansea.ac.uk to help us decide if this should be a permanent arrangement. You can also fill in one of our comments cards, which are available near the entrance of the library.
PC Room 2 is in the South Wing, closest to the beach. It is available to those who would like to work quietly on a PC. Signs are on display to show that it is for silent study only. If you are working on a group project or would like to talk to each other, please find another space in the library to work at. We ask that all students cooperate with this during the trial period.
The two silent study rooms in the North Wing are also still available. There are no PCs in these rooms, though there are plugs and USB ports available to connect your devices.
If you have any questions please email buslib@swansea.ac.uk or ask at the Information Desk.
Floor plan of Bay Library. PC Room 2 in the South Wing is now for silent study only.
In response to student feedback this year, we’re pleased to announce that we will soon have 48 additional study spaces in Bay Library. We will be bringing in extra tables to the Central Area and to the South Wing. We will also be raising the height of 7 short, round coffee tables to make them more suitable for study use. No more bending over to reach your book or laptop!
Thank you to everyone who has sent us feedback this year, whether that is via a survey, comments in the library or via your student rep. If you have any thoughts to share, please do let us know. You can email library@swansea.ac.uk or use the suggestion box in the library.
We’d like to introduce you to one of our newer resources – The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. This online encyclopaedia brings together over 700 individually commissioned entries and a further 85 signposts, written by leading academics and practitioners. The entries define and explain theories and concepts in the field of strategic management, including general management, leadership and organizational behaviour.
You can use the encyclopedia to create a list of topics for your revision and you’re able to bookmark any articles that might be of interest.
There are a number of ways to navigate around the encyclopaedia:
You can access the encyclopedia off campus by searching iFind.swan.ac.uk and log in, when prompted, with your Swansea University username and password.
If you’d like more information you can access a guide to using the encyclopaedia here.
Do you know that you can check out more than books at the Bay Library? We also have laptops available for you to borrow.
We have 50 laptops which you can take out of the library for up to two weeks. These laptops are available for you to borrow at any time from the library desk.
We also have 30 laptops that can be accessed from our self-service machine and these can be used within the library, for as long as the battery lasts.
These laptops are available for you to borrow between 8am and 8pm. The self-service machine will display how many laptops are currently available.
Once you have finished using the laptop you can simply return it to the self-service machine, which will indicate the correct door to return it to.
Don’t forget to bring your student card with you, as you’ll need it to borrow laptops from the library.
My name is Gareth Smith and I am a part-time Senior Service Advisor at the Bay Library. I’ve previously worked at the Miners’ Library and the LIC at Singleton Campus. I’m excited about working in a brand new library on a brand new campus and all the challenges and experiences that will arise as a result of that. I’m also looking forward to the great view that we will have (for our three annual days of sunshine).
I’ve chosen Careers to feature in this blog because it’s something that both new and returning students will need to familiarise themselves with in the Bay Library to make sure that they’re making the most of the library’s career services.
Though new students will likely not want to be thinking about future careers yet, second and third year students might want to consult the literature we hold on the topic in the library. It’s located directly in front of the study well in the central area and contains books such as The Graduate Jobs Formula: How to Land Your Dream Career, Put Your Mindset to Workand (bizarrely) What Color is Your Parachute?. As well as these, there is a wealth of bilingual information sheets offering advice and guidance on CV writing, completing job applications and looking for part-time work. You’ll also find lots of information and advice on the Careers and Employability Service web pages.
If you have a more complicated query or would like to discuss your career prospects, bookings with a career advisor can be made either online or at the Library Desk. (The link to booking an appointment can be found under the ‘Careers’ tab of your MyUni page, or follow this link: https://myuni.swan.ac.uk/careers/). It’s particularly helpful for you to state your specific reasons for wanting the appointment during the booking process, as this helps the advisor tailor the session to your needs and ensure it is valuable and relevant.
Appointments can be made either on the day you book or on the following day, between the hours of 09.00 and 16.00. The Career Advisor at the Bay Library, Gareth Hill, will be here for appointments on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The sessions normally last half an hour and will be conducted in one of our interview rooms. These are located in the North Wing of the building and are signposted outside. Gareth will also be running drop-in sessions on Wednesdays between 14.00 and 16.00 for general queries with no appointment necessary.
Hello. I’m Alyson and I am a Senior Service Advisor here at the Bay Library. I was previously working at the Singleton campus Library on the IT service desk for over 10 years. I am really pleased to have been given the chance to work at this fantastic new Campus.
My blog this time features a range of IT questions and answers that new students usually ask regarding printing, photocopying and scanning. We have leaflets with instructions on how to do all the following points at the service desk.
How do I register my card to print, photocopy and scan?
You will need to register your card on the printing/photocopying/scanning machine. To do this just scan your card on any printer, enter your student number, enter your Swansea University password and make up a 4 digit pin number. From then on when you want to print, photocopy or scan you just need to scan your card and enter your pin number.
How do I put credit on my card?
Students at the Bay Campus will need to come to the service desk for now, pay cash over the counter and the staff will add the credit to your student card. Hopefully in the future there will be a self-service card revaluer installed. We will update you on that as soon as we have more information.
How do I print?
Log on to a pc in the library and upload your document. Click print and choose the mono printing or colour printing. You can collect your print from any printing/photocopying/scanning machine in the library.
Prints are automatically set for double side printing – if you want to change this please do this in the print options on the PC before you send to the printer.
How do I print from my own device (mobile/laptop/tablet)?
Go to this web page: http://print.swan.ac.uk and login in as normal. Upload the file you want to print and send. Collect at any printing/photocopying/scanning machine.
Prints will only stay in the queue for 2 hours. If you haven’t collected them by then you will need to upload and send to the printer again.
How do I photocopy?
Go to the printing/photocopying/scanning machine and swipe your ID card & enter your PIN. Select Copy from the function menu. A standard photocopying interface will appear – if you want your photocopying to be in colour use the colour button to see a full menu copy screen. Press the big blue button to start the photocopying.
How do I scan?
Go to the printing/photocopying/scanning machine and swipe your ID card & enter your PIN. Select XPR Scan from the function menu. You will then be given two options: Scan to folder & Scan to e-mail.
Selecting Scan to Folder will store the scanned document in your P: drive on the network.
Select Scan to Email and you will receive the scanned document as an email attachment in your inbox.
Once you make your selection press the big blue button to start scanning.
Hello, my name is Rob and I am a Service Advisor down at the Bay Library. I’m going to tell you about the study space available for you here in the library.
We are open 24 hours a day, so you can come in at any time. If you are an early riser and want to study at 5.30 in the morning you can. Similarly, if you are a nocturnal creature you could come in at midnight and study until dawn. The choice is yours!
Choice is important to us here in The Bay Library – we want you to use the library in a way that suits you. We have a range of study spaces available – whether you are part of a study group or you prefer the solace of your own company, we should have a place to suit you. If the central area gets a bit too lively, we have more peaceful silent study rooms in the North Wing. We also have a bookable pod (a small enclosed space with separate lighting and air conditioning controls!) for group work. It looks a bit like it might take off and shoot into orbit. If you are an engineering student, you are welcome to try and make that happen, but only if I can have a go in your flight simulator! (Disclaimer: This is a joke! Please don’t attach rockets to anything in the library.)
We have two open access PC rooms in the library, as well as extra PCs in the central area which we installed recently to help meet demand. Screens are touchscreen enabled, and are all connected to our scanner/printers. You can also bring your own laptop or device into the library. We have lots of power sockets available round the Bay Library, so you should always be able to find a plug or a USB point when you need one!
If you are having trouble with your computer or your tablet we can help you with any basic IT enquiry. We also provide information sheets to help you connect to the internet, login to our systems and help you use our printing facilities.
You can ask us ANY question and we will do our very best to help you.
Remember, always bring your student card with you or you may not have access to all of our services!
Allison Jones has recently joined the team of Subject Librarians for the School of Management and the College of Engineering. Allison will be based in the Bay Library.
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