Numicon Kit Two

The LRC at Polhill has recently purchased the Numicon Kit Two. The pack is available in the Teaching Practice room on the top floor of the Library at 510.71 NUM. It contains a teaching binder, shapes, feely bag, spinners, display number line, 10s number line, card 1-100 number track, 0-100 table-top number line, post box, numeral cards, trays for number rods and number rod track.

Extended weekend opening hours at Park Square

From Friday 5 March to Friday 11th June 2010, the opening hours at Park Square will be extended during the weekends.   

Fridays:  IT Suite and SLS open to 02.00

Saturdays and Sundays:  IT Suite and SLS open to 22.00

 

Please note that for Easter weekend (Thur April 1 - Tue April 6 2010) the Park Square University Buildings are closed.

 

When the new academic year commences (for undergraduates) the extended weekend opening hours will resume (from Friday October 8th).

Primary School Library Charter

The School Library Association has launched the Primary School Library Charter.

The twelve page booklet gives advice on how to set up and run a primary school library and is freely available as a PDF download.

Easter Opening Hours 2010 at Polhill Library

Saturday 27th March                       10am – 3.45pm

Sunday 28th March                         11am – 4.45pm

Mon 29th^th – Weds 31^st  March        8.30am – 5pm

CLOSED  Thursday 1^st – Tuesday 6^th April inclusive

Library re-opens on

Weds 7^th – Fri 9^th April                     8.30am – 5pm

Saturday 10^th April                           10am -  3.45pm

Sunday 11^th April                            11am – 4.45pm

Mon 12^th April – Fri 16^th April            8.30am – 6pm

Saturday 17^th April                           10am -  3.45pm

Sunday 18^th April                             11am – 4.45pm

Term time opening begins on Monday 19^th April

Recommend a resource

We now have a new service which allows staff and students to recommend resources that would be useful for the Library. We can't guarantee that all books will be purchased but each request will be considered. Just go to http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/contact/recommend and complete the form.

New journals on library catalogue

The Acquisitions Department has added the new 1,200 full-text journals to the Library Catalogue. These journals have been bought as part of the new Education Research Complete journals bundle.

Polhill Learning Hub

From Monday 1st February, the Learning Hub will be open until midnight (Monday to Thursday). This is in response to student interest. The Learning Hub opens at 08.00 during the week. For more information, contact the Polhill Library enquiry desk (01234 793189).