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30 January 2012
Watch our Return to the Forbidden Planet trailer
Watch the trailer for our Performing Arts Department production of Return to the Forbidden Planet
23 January 2012
Read our latest newsletter
Download our Spring Newsletter 2012 and read about our recent college news.
20 January 2012
Four Students recieve offers from Oxford and Cambridge
Four students have had confirmation of offers to study at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in 2012.
19 January 2012
Blackpool Sixth students get a future career boost through new workplace mentors
Blackpool Sixth students will get a unique boost to their future careers over the next eighteen months as they are paired up...
7 January 2012
13 Blackpool Sixth students achieve national Maths success
13 students from Blackpool Sixth have achieved success in the national Mathematics Senior Challenge with five students...Announcements
Course Advice Evening
29th February 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Return to the Forbidden Planet
6th March 7.00pm - 10.00pm
Return to the Forbidden Planet
7th March 7.30pm - 10.00pm
How to access our e-resources
The Learning Resources department subscribe to a number of e-resources which will help you with your studies and research. You can access these using the college's Virtual Learning Environment i-learn and the college email system First Class.
- Log onto First Class or i-Learn with your user name and password.
- Enter the Learning Resources Area on your desktop.
- Click on 'Your Library'.
- Here you will find links to E-books (an online library of thousands of books), Infotrac (a huge collection of academic journal articles), the FYi Library catalogue and the Oxford English Dictionary as well as a guide to referencing. Just click on the icon for the resource you wish to use and the link will take you there.
Evaluating results from Infotrac and other e-resources:
- Scan the article titles which come up to evaluate if any are useful: what are you actually looking for?
- Data?
- Theories?
- Ideas?
- Quotes?
- Scan the citation: if the magazine title is Grocer's World, you can be sure it's not what you're looking for! Save yourself some time.
- In this instance you need to do a Publication Search – try ‘sociology’ as a search term. When the results appear, select the magazine you want to look through.
- Then do a Quick Search, and tick the 'within this publication' box.
- Now enter ‘fear crime’ as your search terms – is this more successful?
- Try the Subject Guide Search for the same stuff – does it get you more relevant results?
Found a good article?
WRITE DOWN THE REFERENCE if you plan to quote something from it. The reference is the article title in your search results.
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