Online support from the library training team

The Training Team in the Library provide ICT training and support for staff and students at the University of Salford, from courses to online training and drop-in support. You can find out more about the training team by visiting their web pages at http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/training/.



The Training Team appreciate that students have very busy timetables and can struggle to attend the scheduled courses or drop-in ITScope sessions available when they need help with ICT. For this reason they have added a new feature to their Facebook page where you can ask an ICT question and get a reply posted on their wall. This may help you and also others who have the same questions or problems.

To get quick online support, visit their page or search Facebook for the The-Training-Team-at-UoS.

You can also keep up to date with the latest news from the team by following them on twitter at http://twitter.com/UoSTrainingTeam.

Laptop loans in the Library

All library sites have laptops available to loan. You can borrow a laptop from the Enquiry Desk for up to 3 hours at a time for use anywhere in the library.

Want to work quitely on your assignment in the silent study area or sit near to the books or journals while typing? Borrowing a laptop allows you to be flexible in where and how you work. All laptops allow you to connect through the wireless network to gain access to the university's Library and IT resources such as Blackboard, Webmail and e-Library, and all allow you to save work onto a USB device, or upload it onto your own F Drive using the Filestore link on the Student Channel web site.

You can find out more about the scheme at http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/it/laptops/

Document Delivery - new electronic delivery service

If a book or journal is not held in stock at the University of Salford, you can use our document delivery service. You can find details of the document delivery process on the ILS website at http://www.ils.salford.ac.uk/library/using/document/

Document Delivery and SED
You now have the option of having journal articles delivered in electronic format to your desktop, using the Secure Electronic Delivery (SED) service from the British Library.

The Document Delivery request form offers the electronic delivery option, which requires you to provide an email address.

If the requested item is available electronically from the British Library, it will be delivered in electronic format as an Adobe PDF to your email account. If it cannot be provided electronically then a paper copy will be supplied as standard.

To find out more about SED click here.