The SML is increasingly using IT in many of its courses. So you will often be set tasks that require you to use on-line resources and multimedia applications. Use of IT is a key skill in its own right, it informs the teaching and learning process, and it is an important research tool. In order to help you to make the best use of the Language Centre and to develop your skills as a language learner, you will have an induction programme at the beginning of your first year. Library facilities .
Current periodicals are on the same level, and back numbers on the floor below.
It is important to learn what the Library can offer, and how to use it, at an early stage of your University career. These contain books which are very heavily in demand, and may be taken away only for a period of a few hours or overnight. As the Avenue Library is a Reserve collection only, its contents are limited to the most basic texts and works of reference, so it cannot in any way be regarded as a substitute for the Hartley Library. Photocopying charges are levied on all students to cover part of the considerable cost of the photocopied material which we use.