Tag: Lincoln International Business School

New eBook: Strauss’s handbook of business information: a guide for librarians, students, and researchers by Kirkwood (2020)  

Daren Mansfield / / Uncategorized

In an era of ‘fake news’ reliable sources are needed more than ever. Trawling through business-related content often means considering non-academic but useful sources. The web according to WorldWideWebSize (2022) ‘estimates that­ there are more than 60 billion pages’. Fortunately, Kirkwood’s (2020) encyclopaedic Strauss’s handbook of business information: a guide for librarians, students, and researchers is now available as an eBook in the Library is here to help. Strauss’s handbook of business information (Kirkwood, 2020) attempts to solve the riddle of navigating the labyrinth of business resources with a wide range of chapters on print resources, databases, newspapers, journals, company and industry information, statistics, economics, investments, stocks, bonds, real estate, et. al, and any dutiful researcher trying to find credible business-related information is bound to find this book extremely insightful.

References

Kirkwood, H. P. (2022). Strauss’s Handbook of Business Information: a Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers, 4th Edition. ProQuest Ebook Central. Available from: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ulinc/detail.action?docID=6271081 [Accessed 27th April 2022].

WorldWideWebsize. (2022). The size of the World Wide Web (The Internet). Available from: https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/ [Accessed 11th May 2022].

14,000+ words seems like A LOT, but subject librarians are here to help

Daren Mansfield / / Study Skills

Book a 2020 appointment with a LIBS librarian

Daren Mansfield / / Academic Subject Librarians, University Library

Do you have 2020 vision? For the adventurous and no doubt supremely organised, why not book in advance? We have appointments available for the first three weeks of the year. More to follow!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Martin and Daren

Daren Mansfield / / University Library

It’s certainly been a hectic year – our new bookable appointments have been an enormous success with all but a couple of slots fully booked up. It’s been a real pleasure to meet with so many business school students throughout the year and we look forward to seeing everyone in the New Year.

New Library books for LIBS

Daren Mansfield / / Library Information

It’s raining outside. Take shelter in the Library and check out our new books. The new academic year is fully underway, and @GCWLibrarians are busy buying new titles, new editions, et al. (us included). Martin and I have compiled a fascinating new library book list which lets you know what has arrived in the Library over the past week…Here @ bit.ly/2IGtNLW.

The list includes Simon Lindgren’s (2017) splendid Digital media & society which covers new analysis of the contemporary media landscape, and central theories of the digital society, and the hot topics and key research methods in the field. Plus much more. Sounds interesting? It’s available now @ bit.ly/2oSgwbr

New outstanding dissertations added to the LIBS showcase

Daren Mansfield / / digital learning

It’s finally here. Ten new (2019) outstanding Lincoln International Business School dissertations have been added to the Library Dissertation Showcase. These are part of a pilot where we’re learning all the time to improve what is proving to be an excellent resource for University of Lincoln students. At the moment these are undergraduates dissertations, but there may be scope to include postgraduate dissertations further down the line; as well as adding other schools to upload their top ten dissertations. More to follow soon. Will keep you posted on developments in this exciting area.

Taking over HRM

Daren Mansfield / / Academic Subject Librarians

I am delighted to announce that Martin Osborne and I (Daren Mansfield) will be supporting Human Resource Management from September onwards.  As a direct result, the  libguide for this subject has been updated to include ourselves as the main contacts for research and referencing. Please contact us for 1-1 support, enquiries and anything else library related.

RNIB UK education collection for print-disabled learners

Daren Mansfield / / digital learning

The RNIB bookshare provides the reader with the opportunity to:

  • Listen to books with high quality text-to-speech voices
  • Hear and see highlighted words on screen
  • Read with digital braille or enlarged fonts
  • Create physical braille or large print
  • Read directly from your Internet browser
  • And more!

If you would to use the fabulous RNIB bookshare service please contact your Academic Subject Librarian who will set up an account on your behalf.

Library Dissertation Showcase User Evaluation Survey

Daren Mansfield / / digital learning

We’re always looking at ways to innovate the Library at Lincoln. Our fantastic new project, The Library Dissertation Showcase, went live three weeks ago and has already attracted an amazing response from users. Our User Evaluation Survey aims to investigate how the site is performing and meeting your needs in reading some of the best dissertations in the Lincoln International Business School. It is a pilot so we would welcome your feedback at this stage (and in future, but it’s more than crucial right now!).

Dissertation showcase

Daren Mansfield / / digital learning

At the University of Lincoln we are proud to celebrate student success. All of the dissertations on this showcase achieved 75% or more. These are exclusively undergraduate dissertations from the Lincoln International Business School, and is running as a pilot to identify any issues and improve what promises to be a highly popular resource. Our longer aim (post-pilot) is to involve all other schools within the university and champion student achievement.

 

New reading list look – today! 

Daren Mansfield / / digital learning

Talis Reading lists has upgraded to a ‘New List View’ today (ahem, Wednesday 16th January 2019). This is designed to improve usability for all users, which includes images of the front cover widely considered as the most obvious change. Here is an example of the ‘New List View’, if you would like to take a look:

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New Library books inc. The dark side of social media (2018)

Daren Mansfield / / Book of the Month

These new books have recently arrived in the Library for the Lincoln International Business School, and there’s always an eye-catching title that inspires further reading. This week it is Scheinbaum & Close’s (eds.) (2018) The dark side of social media: a consumer psychology perspective. What one would you choose?

Announcing Library workshops this Semester

Daren Mansfield / / Study Skills, University Library

If you’re wondering how the Library can help you this semester then there are loads of workshops you may be interested in. Reserve your place today!

Workshops Flyer at University of Lincoln Library by Daren Mansfield on Scribd

New database includes millions of research papers now available

Daren Mansfield / / digital learning

CORE currently contains 125,700,569 open access articles, sourced from over tens of thousands of journals, collected from over 3,673 repositories around the world. Their mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public, enabling free unrestricted access to research for all.

Feeling cold? Stay warm & read a new book in the Library

Daren Mansfield / / Library Information

Did you get snow this morning? I did, so why not choose one of our many Lincoln International Business School books in the Library this wintry February, and beat the winter blues.