The Seeley Library offer tours at the beginning of Michaelmas Term. These tours focus on the Seeley space in the West Room and include a brief introduction to iDiscover. This is the the online searching tool for resources in Cambridge. The tour route includes:
Tours usually last around 30 minutes and can be booked online via the Seeley Library classes booking page.
If you would like to have a tour at another time, please let us know in person or by emailing us at seeley@hist.cam.ac.uk.
The University Library (the UL) run tours throughout the year. These can booked via the Cambridge University Libraries booking page. These tours go into more detail about the whole University Library building. These tours also explain how to find UL books.
The Seeley Team run a number of study skills sessions throughout the year. These include:
These sessions will appear on our Seeley Library classes booking page when they are available. We also send out emails advertising these classes.
This online course helps get first-year sciences students off to a good start with advice on how to survive lectures, take effective notes, structure your first essay, and lots of other helpful resources to support you throughout your first year. While aimed at Part IA students, this course is open to anyone who wishes to use it.
The Critical Reading course aims to improve students' ability to read critically and evaluate sources, as well as giving helpful tips about productive reading, note-taking and providing a checklist of questions to help them with their reading going forward. It is suitable for all students but aimed mostly at undergraduates.
This course is based on a typical literature review lifecycle. You start by planning your search. You then carry out your search. Once you've found some results, you evaluate what you have found to see if it is relevant to your needs. You manage your results by saving them to a suitable place so you can come back to them. If you are interested in tracking changes in your field, you enact approaches to keep up to date with new research. And as your research evolves, you refine your search to reflect new concepts and new terms. And so the cycle continues.