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Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson CBE has enjoyed a spectacular career in football, both as a player and manager. He was born in Govan on Hogmanay 1941 to parents Alexander, a plater’s helper in the shipbuilding industry, and Elizabeth (née Hardie). After obtaining his Secondary School Certificate he completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker with Remington Rand. His senior football playing career lasted from 1958 to 1974, when he entered management with East Stirlingshire, St Mirren and Aberdeen, before joining Manchester United in 1986. Continue reading
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What to expect?
The drop-in session is for quick questions – like needing help to find resources on a topic or getting started with a database or RefWorks.
Where?
The drop-in desk is the first desk in the Library Ask & Learn space on Level 1 of the Saltire Centre.
Need more help?
Make an appointment with your subject specialist academic librarian. Appointments can be for a group and you can request an online appointment too.
My brother is getting married this weekend, and along with revising my best man speech (gulp), I’m also anticipating a lot of relatives and newly minted in-laws asking the perennial question; what is it you do again?
GCU Archive Centre reading room
As ever, I’ll smile and reply that I work as an archive assistant. They’ll nod, pause and then ask, but what do you do? And that’s where it gets tricky.
Sign up for a Library tour Monday to Friday, 16th – 27th Sept.
First tour 10am, then on the hour, until the last tour at 4pm. Tours last only 45 minutes. You will be able to:
We encourage you to come along and get the best start for your studies.
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There is a new version of Westlaw, the law database. You can access it via the Database A to Z or the Law subject guide.
If you have used the previous version of Westlaw you will find new Westlaw familiar, but it has more features and is easier to use. The publisher has provided step-by-step help guides which you can find here.
Help is also available from your academic librarian.
The publisher will be withdrawing the previous version so please update your bookmarks and links.
Please be aware that Lynda.com will be undergoing essential maintenance on Tuesday 9 July, the resource will be unavailable during this time. This essential maintenance is being undertaken in order to upgrade to their new platform, now called LinkedIn Learning.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.
The life of a project archivist can sometimes be quite isolated. You can spend hours on your own in the archives arranging and cataloguing records. But sometimes a project comes along where you get to interact more with people, as I have discovered working on the Social Enterprise Collection (Scotland).
Working on records in the Archive Centre
Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) Archive Centre holds the Social Enterprise Collection (Scotland) which is a national archive of records from organisations and individuals involved in the social enterprise movement across Scotland. Continue reading
