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Easter newsletter April 2020

In these strange and uncertain times, it’s good

to know that there is nothing as constant as
surveys!
The NSS [National Student Survey] (for
finalists), UKES (for 1st and 2nd year UG
students) and PTES (Postgraduate Taught LIBRARIES ARE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
Experience Survey) are still running.
The University of Birmingham Library can offer you a wide range of
intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/student/ survey/ services to help with your work, including:
nss.aspx
intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/student/ survey/ • Open electronic resources to support remote studying and
UKES.aspx research https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/libraryservices/
library/libraries-and-opening-hours/our-collections/open-
https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/42474 eresources-remote-study-research.aspx
On a different note, I hope that you are
• FindIT and resource lists (your gateway to millions of books,
finding isolation to have some benefits.
journals, articles and resources
Perhaps, like me, you might be finding that it’s
actually quite nice that people are being
• iCite (extensive guidance for getting your references right)
forced to conduct their lives at a more gentle,
less frenetic pace and maybe appreciating
• Resources in your subject area
more the qualities of their family and loved
ones, even if they can’t actually get to see
• 24/7 live chat
them physically in person, and enjoying the
untold delights of nature. If you have concerns that you have already met your limit for Library
We will get back to a new ‘normal’ at some requests for purchases of e-books, please see CAL Library Adviser
Lisa Bird’s advice:
point and will hopefully utilize and continue to
‘If you are making the request as we would have had the print copy in
build on some of the skills or knowledge we the Library, and now you need an ebook version you should submit
have learned during this tempestuous time. the request via the MoreBooks@Bham service and regardless of what
you have asked for previously we will try and get ebook access if it is
Stay safe and keep well readily available: https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/libraryservices/
Dorothy library/teaching/ordering/books-at-bham.aspx
LCAHM Student Experience Officer
If it’s for something that we don’t already own in print then I would still
recommend that you submit the request via More Books as we are
being more relaxed in our approach at the moment’.
 LCAHM Link
https://blog.bham.ac.uk/culturalcalendar/

CAREERS INFORMATION
· All CAL students can send their email queries
Please look out for information regarding recruitment of student
and requests for application feedback or
reps for the next academic year. An email will be sent out to
appointments to
you early next term.
artsandlawcareers@contacts.bham.ac.uk. The
CAL careers team will reply directly (dependent on For information on the role of a student rep, please visit
our team rota and availability). https://www.guildofstudents.com/studentreps/
· All students continue to have access to a
comprehensive range of online resources via Careers
Network’s website -
http://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/careers
· If the student needs to book a careers or
practice interview each Careers Adviser will arrange a
mutually convenient time with the student directly for
a Skype appointment.
(NB No online bookings are taking place)
· Skype appointments will only be offered to https://www.facebook.com/groups/
finalists, PGTs and recent graduates in the first virtualsportandfitnessclub/
instance. We will not be offering telephone UoB wellbeing https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/student/
appointments at this stage. coronavirus/Wellbeing.aspx

Let isolation be your muse

Being cooped up is challenging but quarantine has long been a

The Decameron
by John William Waterhouse 1849-1917
(Lady Lever Art Gallery)
powerful catalyst for stunning art and memorable literature.
In 1348 a group of ten young things, seven women and three men,
flee Florence for a villa in the Tuscan countryside to avoid the
worst pandemic Europe had ever experienced at that time. They
while away the hours and days by telling each other stories –
some scandalous, some melodramatic, some anti-Catholic
church.
The tales of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron are
being recounted, in a synoptic form, on the LCAHM Facebook
page https://www.facebook.com/LCAHM/