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New Liaison Librarians for Arts & Design, Education and Media
There are a few new faces in Murray and St Peters library liaison team and we would like to introduce ourselves to you. Leah Emary, Suzie Kitchin and Michelle Walker have been hired in...
General Election resources
If you would like to follow General Election news, comment and analysis in the media, remember that the library gives you access to the content of hundreds of current UK newspapers through Lexis Nexis....
Current awareness and saving a search that works!
Did you know you can set up alerts to receive emails when new issues of journals of interest to you are published, or that you can save a Library Search that has worked so...
Are you growing dissertation success skills?
Get your dissertation (and the summer) off to a great start with our Dissertation Skills Workshops! Our workshops are running week beginning 5th June and they can help you to: – Kickstart your dissertation...
Five easy steps to accessing LexisLibrary News
Did you know that we subscribe to a database that gives you access to UK newspapers? Doing a press search can help you find newspaper articles on your topic that you can use in...
University of Sunderland students nominated for seven prestigious journalism awards
University of Sunderland students from the Faculty of Arts and Creative industries have been shortlisted for seven SPA awards for their work within the mediaHUB. The Student Publication Association nominates these prestigious awards for...
Game Jam in The Murray Library Design Suite 23rd March 2017
University of Sunderland BA (Hons) Game and App design students will take over the Murray Library design suite for 24 hours on 23rd March to host a Game Jam where all students across the university...
LexisNexis access issues? – Here is a temporary work around for accessing LexisNexis online services
You may be experiencing some problems logging into LexisNexis from our library A-Z page today- it was updated last night which has affected the direct link from our A-Z pages. This is a temporary...
Academic Book Week
It’s Academic Book Week (23rd-28th Jan) which is a celebration of the diversity, innovation and influence of academic books. A list of the top 20 academic books that have shaped modern Britain has been...
New shelves arrive at St Peters Library
New shelving will arrive at St Peters Library in the Prospect building today to create space for some extra books which will be moving over from the Murray library. This means that: Four tables...
Drop In event at East Durham College – Tue 1st November, 2.30pm – 6.30pm
Got any questions about University of Sunderland resources and services? Need help with your assignments? Why not come and speak to staff from the University libraries. at our event on Tuesday.
Library collections are moving….how will this affect you?
There will be a number of teaching building changes taking place across campus during early 2017. This means that books and other library resources will be rearranged to ensure that the materials you need...
Getting the most out of Discover: using My Discover to store and organise your journal articles
If you have found some useful articles on Discover, you may wish to save them for future use. You can store articles within Discover by using the My Discover option. From your results list,...
UK Government 2016 Autumn Statement – recommended free resources
The UK Government will publish a joint Spending Review and Autumn Statement on 23 November 2016. Here are some recommended resources for academic research: The official government website is a good starting point. It...