Do Your Study Skills Need Polishing?!

We found a useful website called Get Better Grades Now.  If essays and assignments are getting on top of you, you might lessen the stress by working out where things are going right, and where things could be improved.

For a start, this blog author reminds us to "chunk it down". A clumsy expression, but it basically means breaking down assignments into bite-sized "chunks".  Start small, work out the steps you need to take to complete that assignment, then decide which step has to come first.

• NB  The Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has books on study skills (click HERE), as well as the usual books on music, dance, drama, film and TV.  Ask us!

Are you Curious How We Learn?

How we learn: the surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens,
by Benedict Carey
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We note that TARA PARKER-POPE reviewed a book that we recently got for the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  Tara's review is entitled 'Better ways to learn', in the New York Times (October 6, 2014). 

Worth a look?  Read Tara's review, HERE.

 

Studying with Special Needs: Some Personal Narratives

Back in 2005, when Karen was in a group for academic librarians providing disability support, she wrote an article for Library Review, about studying with special needs, and how libraries can help.

The article is still attracting interest - Emerald reminded her that there's a live link to it, if your library subscribes to Library Review.  So, here it is:-

Title:	Studying with special needs: some personal narratives
Author(s):	Karen E. McAulay, (Music and Academic Services Librarian, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, UK)
Citation:	Karen E. McAulay, (2005) "Studying with special needs: some personal narratives", Library Review, Vol. 54 Iss: 8, pp.486 - 491
Keywords:	Academic libraries, Disabled people, Scotland
Article type:	Conceptual paper

Live Link

Returning to study for a research degree

Are you coming to join us as a research postgrad?

There's a new book in the Whittaker Library that might interest you: -

Stuart Powell, Returning to Study for a Research Degree.  Find it in the library here.  (We can find more like this, if you tell us what you're looking for.)

Summertime - we're still here!

GREETINGS to Whittaker's followers!

A quick announcement:-

from OneBigTurn.blogspot.com

We've had the pre-graduation rush, and graduation itself, so now the Whittaker Library can settle into summertime routines.  (Summertime? Did someone mention summer?!)  There may be fewer library staff, but we still keep on going.

Our Whittaker Live blog will continue to bring you performing arts and study-related news whenever possible - do keep an eye on it.

For example, this week we've shared news of Jobs.ac,uk; digital literacy; oral history; theatre design; Scotland (Friends of Wighton/ Friends of Plockton/ Scottish storytelling); not to mention new library accessions; a call for papers from Organised Sound; and the fabulous Writing Britain exhibition at the British Library.  Scroll down to take a look.

If you'd like us to monitor particular themes/activities/events, do let us know. Email K.McAulay@rcs.ac.uk, or catch Karen on Twitter @Karenmca.