Academic Liaison Librarians attend your classes on request to provide sessions on searching for, evaluating and referencing resources as well as sessions on systematic reviews, offering library tours and library inductions. Look at our teaching menu to get an idea of what we can offer and talk to your liaison librarian about how we can best work with you to support your students in developing their academic skills; and use the Learner Journeys Toolkit with your course team to ensure that your students receive appropriate skills support throughout their course.
The Ask a Librarian team is happy to answer any quick queries you or your students may have about finding, evaluating and referencing sources, and other library skills.
For more detailed queries contact your liaison librarian. Contact your liaison librarian with queries about referencing policy, resource lists, or library teaching for your students.
Liaison Librarians offer students online appointments and online Study Skills Live sessions. If you would like us to deliver one of the Study Skills live topics specifically to your class, either online or in person, let us know. The Study Skills Portal is also available to your students throughout their course. You can recommend that students use the portal to evaluate their skills at the start of semester, or you may want to recommend in assignment feedback or tutorials that individual students use specific sections to develop their academic skills.
Use Library Search to find books, articles and more provided by the University of Worcester. Further resources are available via our subject guides.
Library Services purchases the books and ebooks you want your students to read when you add them to your module resource list and send that list for review. Please recommend existing resources where possible. If you wish to request a book that you will not be recommending to students, please contact a liaison librarian for your subject area. For requests for journals we don't already subscribe to, enhanced textbooks, databases and streaming packages, approach your liaison librarian in the first instance.
The University pays for a number of licences to allow you to copy resources for teaching purposes. Please check to what you are allowed to copy and scan under these licences. Use our straightforward digitisation service rather than uploading copies of published materials to Blackboard. We will do the copyright clearance for you, and ensure that the copy meets accessibility requirements.
If you, or one of your students, has a print disability such as a visual impairment, dyslexia, ADHD, autism or a physical impairment that makes using print difficult, we can give you /them access to accessible format texts via Bookshare. If a student has been referred to us via the Disability and Dyslexia Service, we may be in touch with you about key module texts so that we can ensure your student can access to the reading resources they need even if they are not available via Bookshare.
You can find details of the referencing styles used by the University of Worcester on the Library Services referencing page. If you are teaching on a course that uses the Harvard style, please note that the University uses the Cite Them Right 12th edition, Harvard style and this may be slightly different to the style you used elsewhere. Expectations for student referencing are laid out in section 6 of the University Assessment Policy. Support materials on academic integrity are available on the Study Skills Portal and the university provides guidance on the use of artificial intelligence tools for completing academic work.
Your staff ID is also your library membership card. Self-issue machines are available throughout The Hive. Library staff are on hand if you need help or if you don't have your staff ID with you. Your staff ID will also get you a 10% discount in the cafe. To return books, use the sorting machine near the entrance on Level 1. You can also return books to any library in Worcestershire.
Find out more about how many items you can borrow. There is no charge for borrowing a book if you bring it back on time.
Rooms in The Hive can be booked for university teaching sessions which involve library resources or library colleagues. Find out more about booking rooms in The Hive.
The Hive has an exciting cultural programme aimed at public audiences as well as for students and staff. Events are organised around a different theme each quarter. Contact the events team to find out about current and upcoming themes. If you would like to run your public event in The Hive complete the expression of interest form on The Hive website.
For tips on managing your research data, promoting your work and profile, Open Access publishing, the REF and more select the Information and Services tab above and look in the research column.
Are you a tutor at one of the university's partner organisations? Do you teach on one of our partner courses? Or perhaps you prepare resource lists that are used by both Worcester students and partner students? If this is you, we have information for you, and information for your students to let everyone know what is available and what services and resources the library can offer.