Everybody learns differently. Happily there are a whole suite of Library services and apps available to help you do just that!
Set your learning free
Try these free apps for personalising your learning, many of which will make your life easier if you are averse to reading and digesting large blocks of written text.
These other free apps promise to help you unlock your productivity, offering you more ways to support different ways of working collaboratively, automate processes on your phone, create your own animations and more.
Library accessibility services
If you have registered specific print or learning disabilities, there are a number of adaptive devices the Library offers to support your learning. An overview of what we can currently offer is described in this introductory slideshow. These vary from coloured overlays to aid those with dyslexia to physical difficulties handling printed books to a scanning service for those whose registered print or visual disabilities make it only possible for them easily to read using a screen reader or extreme large print.
Do you enjoy a good ‘who dunnit’ murder mystery? It has been established that people learn best if they study in focused bursts of around 25 minutes separated by five minutes of doing something very different. Why not make this murder mystery your five minutes of something different for the next few days and learn how to solve the odd murder in the library in your spare time?!
Have you seen your subject pages? If the one search Google-style convenience of the Discovery Service is just not delivering the results you need or you are looking for specialised resources, try your subject pages.
Do you have an interest in theatre history, playbills or ephemera? On Thursday 4th October 2018 there will be an opportunity to learn about the history of playbills and to explore some of the British Library playbill collection which has been digitised for the ‘In The Spotlight’ project. The workshop will give an introduction to the ‘In the Spotlight’ website which is using crowd-sourcing to transcribe the playbills, some of which are from Portsmouth.
Starting University can feel daunting and so we have put together a series of simple bite-sized Introducing… guides that introduce you to the best of all things library. There are even a couple of slideshows dedicated to showcasing free apps that allow you can use to personalise and improve your learning experience.
Your digital library online
The Library is now open continuously until the start of the Christmas Vacation Period. You read it right – we never close. We will repeat our continous opening from the start of the next term until everyone goes home in early June.
Your reading lists are your friends. They are resources your lecturers feel are particularly good for your course. They show you what to read and use first for your assignments. Each item has a blue button alongside it that either shows you how many copies of a book are available and where they are shelved or takes you straight through to the ebook, journal article or other electronic (online) resource you need to read. They make life easier and save you time!
You can use all the library’s premium subscription resources from anywhere for freeas if you were on campus. In order to enjoy the full experience, including making group study room bookings and getting to use some otherwise ‘campus only’ resources, you need to set up either the VPN or web proxy service on your computer.
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