Online Learning Spaces - UniOfSunLib on Facebook

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Learn how to use library e-resources
See our recommended resources
Ask us questions or leave comments
Share your experiences of using the library
Read & learn from comments of other students

These are just a few of the ways you can use the Library’s Facebook page.

We think Facebook is great for conversations & sharing ideas and experiences

For example, in May this year we asked our students to share one thing they learned about the library so that everyone could learn from each other. There were some great comments which we hope will have helped our new students who started in September, including…

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We hope you find our Facebook page a welcoming and informative online space where you can communicate with the library and other students from around the world who study on University of Sunderland programmes.

Find your space to sparkle in this winter!

As this is the season of sparkle and festive cheer, this month we’re having conversations with you about the different learning spaces we have in our  libraries…IT spaces, silent spaces, group study spaces, quiet spaces, social spaces or our online spaces. Everyone learns in different ways and depending upon your mood or the task you need to do, you will find different study and social environments to suit you. So, where do you find your space to sparkle? 

Share why you like your favourite library space and how it helps you - you could win one of these sparkly prizes:

  • iPad Mini
  • Amazon Voucher
  • Printing Credits

You can share by posting sparkly comment cards within the library spaces and also on our sparkly trees. Please include your University email address with your comment if you’d like the chance to win one of our sparkly prizes.

Or, if you prefer you can post your comment online via our twitter and facebook pages. 

Please use the #sparklespace hash-tag and help share the magic!

You only have until the 18th December to share your sparkly thoughts and comments, so get posting and tweeting!

ebook ‘wobblers’ in action at University of Sunderland Libraries

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Have you seen our ebook ‘wobblers’? They’re popping up in all of our campus libraries - University of Sunderland librarians want to save students’ time, stress (and money) so we always buy an e-copy where it’s available.

If you have a smart phone, scan a wobbler (with a QR reader app) to take you straight to the library catalogue to check for an ebook version.

Here’s a wobbler in action in St Peter’s Library short loan section (click on the image to watch a short YouTube video of us looking for a popular business book)

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There are lots of easy to use free QR readers and barcode scanners available for iPhone, Android, Windows and other mobile operating systems too.

So now there is no need to “throw a wobbler”, because you can scan a wobbler instead!

Business e-book of the day…cross-cultural management

If you are studying the module Cross-cultural Management (PGBM07) today’s recommended ebook is essential reading on your reading list.  There are currently 5 reservations for this book, but why wait when it’s available as an ebook.  Read it now at the library catalogue - read online with your University ID and password.

Browaeys, M, & Price, R 2008, Understanding Cross-Cultural Management / Marie-Joëlle Browaeys And Roger Price, n.p.: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall

Tourism, Hospitality and Events Ebooks on Demand - Did you know you’ve been buying ebooks for the Library?

For the past few weeks we’ve been trialling a new service which has allowed all our library users to purchase ebooks for the library via the library catalogue… so, if you clicked on an ebook you wanted to read in the past few weeks you may well have bought us a new book for the library because if we didn’t have the book in stock it was automatically bought when you clicked through to read it.

Altogether you helped us buy 195 new ebooks. Here a selection of the titles you chose which relate to the modules taught in Tourism, Hospitality and Events

(click through to read them and see what you think):

Advance in hospitality

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, Volume 7

Medical Tourism

Medical Tourism

Research themes for tourism

Research themes for tourism

Securing and sustaining the Olympic City

Securing and sustaining the Olympic city: reconfiguring London for 2012 and beyond

Strategic hospitality leadership

Strategic hospitality leadership: the Asian initiative

Towards world heritage

Towards world heritage: international origins of the preservation movement 1870-1930

Tourist destination governance: practice, theory and issues

Tourist destination governance: practice, theory and issues

Taking responsibility for tourism

Taking responsibility for tourism: responsible tourism management

Although this trial has now ended we hope it has made research easier for you - hopefully we can offer this as a full service in the next academic year. 

In the meantime if you can’t find the resources you need why not access our interlibrary loan service, contact a member of library staff or the librarian for your subject - we’re here to help.

To view all our latest eBooks (including the ones you’ve been helping us to buy) click the button below (or search our library catalogue):

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Business Ebooks on Demand - Did you know you’ve been buying ebooks for the Library?

For the past few weeks we’ve been trialling a new service which has allowed all our library users to purchase ebooks for the library via the library catalogue… so, if you clicked on an ebook you wanted to read in the past few weeks you may well have bought us a new book for the library because if we didn’t have the book in stock it was automatically bought when you clicked through to read it.

Altogether you helped us buy 195 new ebooks. Here a selection of the titles you chose which relate to the modules taught in Business (click through to read them and see what you think):

Leadership rules: 50 timeless lessons for leaders

Leadership rules: 50 timeless lessons for leaders

A short guide to operational risk

A short guide to operational risk

 Developing HR talent

Developing HR talent: building a strategic partnership with the business

Marketing your business

Marketing your business

The Employer's Handbook

The employer’s handbook, 2011-12: an essential guide to employment law, personnel policies and procedures

Leading and coaching teams to success: the secret life of teams

Leading and coaching teams to success: the secret life of teams

How to write a marketing plan

How to write a marketing plan

The reward management toolkit

The reward management toolkit: a step-by-step guide to designing and delivering pay and benefits

Managing the multi-generational workforce

Managing the multi-generational workforce: from the GI generation to the millennials

The compete guide to recruitment

The complete guide to recruitment: a step-by-step approach to selecting, assessing and hiring the right people

Starting a successful business

Starting a successful business: choose a business, plan your business, manage operations

Business analysts

The business analyst/project manager: a new partnership for managing complexity and uncertainty

Essentials of marketing communication

Essentials of marketing communications

How to write a marketing plan

The marketing plan: how to prepare and implement it

How to be an even better manager

How to be an even better manager: a complete A-Z of proven techniques and essential skills

The best digital marketing campaigns

The best digital marketing campaigns in the world: mastering the art of customer engagement

 The Female Leadership Paradox

The female leadership paradox: power, performance, and promotion

Financial accounting for decision makers

Financial accounting for decision makers

Although this trial has now ended we hope it has made research easier for you - hopefully we can offer this as a full service in the next academic year. 

In the meantime if you can’t find the resources you need why not access our interlibrary loan service, contact a member of library staff or the librarian for your subject - we’re here to help.

To view all our latest eBooks (including the ones you’ve been helping us to buy) click the button below (or search our library catalogue):

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Share something wonderful …win something wonderful!

Like the library on Facebook, post ‘one thing’ to help our new students and you could win an iPad3!

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Enter our new library competition and win an iPad3!

To be in with a chance tell us ‘one thing’ you’ve learned about the library that you think will help new students when they join us next academic year.

To enter our competition:

  • Visit our Facebook page facebook.com/UniOfSunLib
  • Post your ‘one thing’ on our Facebook page starting with the words ‘my one thing’
  • Like our Facebook page 

When we receive 101 one things, we’ll pick a winner.

The closing date for all competition entries is Sunday 20th May 2012.

Good luck!

Past exam papers on MySunderland.

There are a number of past exam papers for a range of business and tourism modules available on MySunderland.

To access these papers is log in to MySunderland with your University user ID and password, go to the Learning section and click on Exam papers (down the left hand side) then enter the level and subject you want to look at.

To find past exam papers follow these steps:

Log in to MySunderland

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Click on Learning

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Click on Exam Papers

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Once you have accessed the exam papers, you can search using module codes, module names or by level.

We hope you find them a useful revision aid.

Happy revising!