Library and study skills events

Royal Holloway Library Services continues its cooperation with academic support staff to host and deliver study skills events. Following February’s successful “Library and Study Skills Day”, Bedford Library hosted the Maths 4 Everyone initiative during which students were offered one-to-one drop-in tutoring in maths to help boost skills and confidence before exams.

In July, librarians, academic support staff and language tutors teamed up to deliver a “Postgraduate Library and Study Skills Day”. Students completing masters dissertations were invited to the Bedford Library for a busy day of one-to-one sessions on dissertation writing, academic English and citation and referencing. Further developments are planned for the new academic year. The Library and Academic Development Services will work together to deliver fortnightly skills surgeries in the Bedford Library in the autumn term 2011 and organize a week of library and study skills events in the spring term 2012.

PhD theses available online

The first electronic versions of newly awarded PhD theses have been made available in the Royal Holloway Research Online repository. They can be viewed by anyone with an internet connection, free of charge. Making electronic theses available in this way means that they can be accessed by the widest possible audience within weeks of completion. It also underlines the College’s commitment to open access principles.   

Staffing news 

Amy Warner has joined Royal Holloway Library Services as Associate Director (E-Strategy and Technical Services) from The National Archives.

Anna Grigson, previously Royal Holloway’s E-resources manager, has been appointed to the new post of Head of Technical Services.