Learning Resource Centres

The LRC team have a wealth of experience and professional qualifications

We can advise staff and students on the best resources to use for your studies

Please come and ask us if you need some help

What we can do for you...

Today we are going to focus on our ‘electronic resources’

These are resources you can access from a computer

We will explain to you what we have available

You can then have a go at logging in and using them

What are we doing today?

Introducing the library catalogue...

The College Virtual Learning Environment ( VLE)

Our electronic resources....

… all of which are available 24/7 via the College website.

Our new Discovery service searches all of our ebooks, eresources and library catalogue at the same time.

There are also thousands of full text journal articles for you to print and download

Create your own account in Discovery service to save, highlight and bookmark any resources you regularly use

New for 2012!

Discovery @ Liverpool Community College

We now have over 3,000 e-books

Oxford Reference – like having a whole library at your fingertips.

UK Newstand- regional and national newspapers online

Thousands of textbooks and a growing collection of fiction.

Hundreds of journals and newspapers covering most subject areas.

Multimedia items such as DVDs and CDs. The number of loan items for students has

increased to 10 items at a time. If you need it we will try and stock it for you

– please ask us!

We have over 30 e-resources as well as:

The LRC in the Learning Exchange is open 8am-8pm Monday to Thursday, and until 5pm on a Friday.

Vauxhall and Bankfield LRCs are open from 8.30am and stay open till 8pm 2 nights a week

We are also open in the holidays (9am-5pm)

We get here early .......

Students can also book a computer in the LRC in advance, to make the most of their study time.

Now its your turn to have a go…