Welcome to all Accounting and Finance students.

Welcome to all our new first years and welcome back to our returning students.

Once you have made it through Fresher's and Welcome Week you might want to turn your attention to working out what you are going to need to read during your studies.  Within each of your BREO units there will be a link to a reading list and on the list will be links to any electronic material we have as well as catalogue information for physical copies held in the library..

You can also sign into the Readinglist page (shown above) and start collecting your own lists of useful reading items from the catalogue or DISCOVER.  If you would like more information on how to do this please contact me.

Also, don't forget reading can be fun too and is good for you.  Check out our fiction titles if you fancy a break from time to time.

There are 33000 ebooks up for grabs!

These cover all subject areas taught by the University but there are significant amount on Accounting and its different areas.  

All you have to do is search for them using the Library Catalogue, follow the links through and click on the Preview button.

Any ebook provided by Askews and Holts Library Service is eligible to be purchased.  You can find this out by scrolling to the bottom of the catalogue record to see who provides which books.  

Once you have clicked on the library catalogue link, click on the Preview button to access the ebook.

The first two 'hits' on a book are classed as rentals, once the third person uses the book it will be automatically purchased for future use by the library.

So happy shopping and happy reading!

StudyHub Workshops

The Academic Liaison Librarians will be running workshops at University Square and Bedford throughout this term to support you in your studies.

 

Citing and referencing clinic - confused about citing and referencing? Come along to this session to get your questions answered.

RefWorks - come and learn how to use the RefWorks software to manage your references.

Dissertation support clinic - are you working on your dissertation at the moment? Come along for help with finding and using resources.

Using DISCOVER - come and learn how to search for journal articles, books, conference papers and more with our search tool, DISCOVER.

It’s not on DISCOVER! - DISCOVER is a good starting point for your research, but you will find useful information in other databases too; come along to this session to find out more.

It’s free to attend and no need to book, just turn up. To see what’s happening where and when, check the Study Hub What’s On calendar at http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/studyhub/whats-on.

Welcome back.

Happy New Year to you all.  

This is just a quick post to let you know that I have been able to arrange office hours within the Accounting department office.  So if you would like to drop by and see me I will be in the room behind the reception desk in the HM office between 10am-12pm every Thursday.  

I'm looking forward to seeing you all.

Merry Christmas.

I have a little Christmas gift to you from the Library: we've got a new resource called Osiris.  It's brought to you by the same people who supply the FAME database so the look of it won't be unfamiliar.  The major difference compared to FAME is that it covers global company information.  So now you are not limited to just looking at UK companies, you can choose a company from wherever you like!

Wishing you all a relaxing break and I'll see you in the New Year.

Would you like a little help?

Welcome to our new students and welcome back to those returning.  Now we have all settled back in to University life and recovered from the rush of Freshers' Week if you would like some help in finding information for your upcoming assignments you can either email me to make an appointment or I can be found on the new StudyHub desk every Thursday afternoon between 2-3pm.  The desk can be found down the stairs next to the International office.  There's a big sign but you can, of course, ask our helpful Customer Service Point staff where it is.  It is staffed between 12-3pm every day except Wednesday and there is no need to book an appointment, so come and see us soon.

No more wiggly mergers and takeovers.

Watch Vince Cable on the BBC site give his take on the attempted take over of UK AstraZeneca.by US Pfizer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28282979

Also on the page are links to several other short videos on the subject that might be of use, it will make a nice break from reading all the journal and newspaper articles that you've been researching anyway.  

As always don't forget to reference them if you use them in your projects: 

BBC (2014) Vince Cable: No 'wiggle room' for big business takeovers Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28282979 (Accessed 14/7/14)

The referencing guide can be found here: http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/guides/a-guide-to-referencing

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