About the Library: What's New

29^th September

New core skills section: Communication Skills, covering different ways of communicating and tips on how to improve your communication skills.

25^th September

Three updates:

• Removal of Dawsonera pages. Before Dawsonera could be used, the platform went into administration and has gone offline; alternatives are being investigated
• Addition of a A to Z list of (free and open) electronic resources.  When subscription resources are acquired they will be listed here too
• New dropdown menu heading: Subject Guides; guides to material relevant to a particular subject area. There are seven at the moment
  • Carpentry and Joinery
  • Electrical
  • Metal Fabrication
  • Motor Mechanics
  • Nursing Studies and Social Care
  • Plumbing
  • Sales
  Layout and content may be subject to change

24^th September

Several additions to note shortly, but the Ergonomics page from Computer Basics section has been duplicated on Online Learning section

8^th September

New section Effective Searching - tips and suggestions for searching the web and specialist resources. A little tweaking to The Search Process section which now has a downloadable template for building a search strategy

1^st September

Links page added to Health and Wellbeing section More links will be added soon

7^th August

New section  Health and Wellbeing, expanded from COVID-19 section page and moved to Core Skills.  Includes new digital wellbeing page. More content and resources will be added in the coming weeks.

21^st July

New Study Skills page: Presentations: advice on preparing and giving presentations

14^th July

New Core Skills section: Computer Basics: a hopefully gentle introduction to some information technology concepts, with links to resources and tutorials

3^rdJuly

Online Learning substantially expanded and moved from COVID-19 section to Core Skills 

29^th June

New pages in Privacy section: Online Privacy and Security Guide and Links

23^rd June

New page in Avoiding Plagiarism section: a downloadable Plagiarism Checklist with some questions to answer to help you avoid plagiarising

18^th June

New staff-only section: SAG Moodle Content hosting all content formerly held on the ETBI Supports for Apprentices Group Moodle site

25^th May

New page in Careers section, linking to ETB guidance and information service contact details

22^nd May

New Page: What's New to keep track of all changes made to digital library website

We now have an email address for comments, feedback and suggestions for content, which you can find on the Contact Us page

15^th May

New section Career Information Advice and tips on cover letters, CVs etc. and plenty of hopefully useful links. NB If you have access to a guidance and information service, use that!

7^th May

New section Open Scholarly Resources: listing the different kinds of sites where free and legal full-text of scholarly articles, journals and books can be found.

23^rd April

Evaluating Information Sources section expanded.

17^th April

Two new pages in COVID-19 section:

• ETBI/ETB response to COVID-19 hosts some documents describing how ETBI and the ETBs have responded to the pandemic
• Health and Wellbeing provides links to mental health and wellbeing resources

30^th March

New page Free resources available during COVID-19 a list of products/services.resources that have been made free to use during the pandemic

27^th March

New Library Skills section: The Search Process, describing the steps involved in searching online resources

26^th March

FET Digital Library goes online