It's Adult Learners' Week!

Adult Learners’ Week runs from the 18^th to the 24^th May this year, so it’s already well underway. The event is a celebration of lifelong learning and aims to highlight some of the benefits it can bring. You can find out more from the official website which includes Learners’ Stories of their achievements. Inspiring stuff!

As a university library, adult learning is really important to us and we try to offer you plenty of resources to help with your studies. You’re all adult learners, but some of you might also be teachers of adults, or perhaps have a particular interest in the value of lifelong learning. You can find out more about adult learning by searching our Catalogue or Digital Library. If you’d rather browse our shelves, you’ll find plenty of books at 374 on the first floor of Townhill Library.

If Adult Learners’ Week has inspired you to think about taking another course, why not have a look at the BBC’s Adult Learners page for inspiration. You could improve your spelling and grammar, learn to cook, learn another language, brush up on your IT skills… All for free!

Read a good book lately? Librarywales.org wants to hear about it!

Librarywales.org is the website for everything you need to know about Welsh libraries. They’ve recently set up a blog (‘Read a good book lately?’) that lets members of the public, book groups and schools share their reviews of books. So if you’ve read a fantastic novel recently and would like to let others know about it, head to librarywales.org and submit your thoughts. Everyone is welcome to contribute to this bank of reviews, so it should develop into an excellent place to get some inspiration for your next read!

Did you know that you can also rate the books and DVDs that you borrow from Swansea Met libraries? Our catalogue now has a feature that lets you give a star rating to any of our items. To do this, just head to our new catalogue (you might see it called Prism 3), log on to ‘My Account’, then use the search box to find your book or DVD and click on the star rating you think it deserves. This is a great way to let your fellow students know which books are most helpful, and also which ones aren’t so good!

 

Try our new library catalogue!

Take a look at the library website http://apollo.smu.ac.uk/library/index.asp?page=newCat&newCatPage=home as we’re currently trialling the new version of our library catalogue - Prism 3. It includes some new features such as the display of book jackets. Feel free to leave any feedback using the link provided.