What every social work student should know!

Here is an interesting article that I found in The Guardian. Social Work teacher, Peter Beresford gives his top five tips for this year's intake of social work students in an article entitled "What every social work student should know". You can read the article here.

New SCIE E-Learning Resource on Parental Mental Health & Familes

SCIE have just launched a new, free e-learning resource providing audio, video and interactive technology to explore the nature of parental mental health and its impact on families. You can view the resource here: Parental Mental Health & Familes.

Library Anywhere App

Our Library Catalogue is available for you mobile phone. Search, discover, and interact with our libraries - anywhere you are, right away.

Search the catalogue, place a hold and reserve items, see what you have checked out, renew items, see our latest news and contact a librarian.

To see the install options visit our Smartphones applications page.

New Web Printing Service

We now have a new web printing service in operation. You can submit jobs from any PC, Mac, laptop or mobile device via a website or email attachment without the need to install printer drivers.

• Print your work from on or off campus
• Log on to webprint.beds.ac.uk to upload your file
• Or email your file to webprint@beds.ac.uk
• Collect your work next time you're on campus

NSPCC Report on Child Abuse & Neglect in the UK Today

The NSPCC’s second UK-wide study of child abuse interviewed a random sample of parents, children and young adults about experiences of child abuse and neglect. Among the key findings are that some forms of child maltreatment reported by young adults aged 18–24 years were lower in 2009 than in 1998/9 (when the first study was carried out). However, there is still a substantial minority of children and young people who are severely maltreated and experiencing abuse at home, in school and in the community, from adults and from peers. All forms of abuse in childhood were associated with poorer mental health and elevated delinquent behaviour and strong associations were found between maltreatment, sexual abuse and physical violence, and poorer emotional wellbeing, including self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
You can read the full report here: Child Abuse & Neglect in the UK Today

Waterstones Book Stall

Waterstones are back at Polhill Library for induction. They will have a stall on the ground floor until Monday, 10th October seeling core texts on reading lists at a 12.5% discount. If the item you need is not on display they can order it for you - still at a discount.

Drop-in Sessions for Semester 1, 2011

The new programme of "Drop-in" sessions for Semester 1, 2011 is below. There's no need to book - just drop-in at the times listed below. Each session has a theme but I'm happy to help with any library-related queries you may have.

Date:	Where:	Time:	Theme
Monday, 3rd October , 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-4.00	E-books – learn how to find & use ebooks .
Monday, 10th October, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-4.00	Finding journal articles using Ebscohost Research Databases.
Tuesday, 11th October , 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-2.00	Researching your dissertation/project
Tuesday, 18th October, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-2.00	E-books – learn how to find & use ebooks
Monday ,31st October, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-4.00	Using the Internet for academic study
Tuesday, 1st November, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-2.00	Finding journal articles using Ebscohost Research Databases
Tuesday, 8th November, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-2.00	Using the Internet for academic study
Monday 14th November , 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-4.00	Referencing
Tuesday 15th November, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-2.00	Referencing
Monday 21st November, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-4.00	RefWorks – use this useful piece of software to take the hard work out of referencing. (Level 1 students must have a basic understanding of the Faculty of Applied Social Studies Referencing system before attending this drop-in).
Tuesday 22nd November, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-2.00	RefWorks – use this useful piece of software to take the hard work out of referencing. (Level 1 students must have a basic understanding of the Faculty of Applied Social Studies Referencing system before attending this drop-in).
Monday 28th November, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-4.00	Finding newspaper articles using the NewsBank Newspapers Database.
Tuesday 29th November, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-2.00	Finding newspaper articles using the NewsBank Newspapers Database.
Monday 5th December, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-4.00	Finding statistics
Monday 12th December, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-4.00	Finding statistics
Tuesday 13th December, 2011	Polhill Library, Level 1 Office	1.00-2.00	Researching your dissertation/ project