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9. Events Calendar
Featured New Links
School News
Emily’s Twitter
Useful Links Law Library
Newest Books
E-Library Small Ads
Databases
10. City Law School Hub
Events Calendar
Featured New Links
School News
Emily’s Twitter
Useful Links Law Library
Newest Books
E-Library Small Ads
Databases
11.
12. Featured New Links
• Current affairs
• Eg, commentary on Murphy v Media Protection
Case (an EU case from 2011).
• When you click on it, it gives you a brief
overview of what the case is on, and
provides a link to access the commentary.
• The information is comprehensible, and
spread out in a newspaper style making it
easier to view
• Help on how to write and structure essay
materials e.g. ‘case breakdown – to write law
essays’
• Helpful for first years who haven’t had any
previous experience studying law.
• New links indicated with [New] in them, so you
can easily tell which are more recent than the
others.
13. Situated at the
beginning of the city
hub page – like a quick
search engine
It’s very ac;ve –
with daily updates,
User friendly – connect even its important that
you follow
if you don’t have a twi@er
account!
14. Emily’s Twitter
Benefit from
one of the
world’s biggest
social
Emily is always networking site
here for us - and stay
updated
Stay in touch with Keeping students
the best resource Situated at the
informed all in
beginning of the city
of the law hub page – like a quick
one place –
search engine
department never miss out
on the best
It’s very ac;ve –
with daily updates, opportunities
User friendly – connect even its important that
you follow
if you don’t have a twi@er
account!
15.
16. Law Library Newest Books
Why is it useful? unconventional
• Shows you which new books are in stock unconventional eye catching
• Visually appealing – not in a long tedious list so it unique
attracts attention spinning carousel
• Shows you an image of the book – so you know what
you are looking for
• You can check its library record – to see whether it is
on loan or has been reserved
• Helps to supplements reading – could find new books
of interest
• a preview of the contents page and a few pages inside
so you can make an informed decision as to whether
you need it
• Makes you aware of the location of the book within
the library
• Informs you about the loan period of the book –
whether it is a 3 day loan or a 7 day loan
Title of the book
Image of the book
How could it be improved further? Image is useful as it helps to identify
the book when searching for it.
• Could be divided in sections – with all the
new books for each subject e.g. one for
contract and another for criminal
• key words in
• Have reviews of the books previous students
could leave comments on how useful bold to enable
they found the particular book them to stand out
17.
18. Small Ads
• Relevant to all years
• Interactive way for students to help each other
• Great way for new students to quickly see what books are on
offer to City Law Students.
• Good if you are student on a budget, and don’t want to buy
all books brand new.
• Accessible to all students.
• Each ad has a little description, including price, which year it
relates to, date when posted, etc.
• Chronological order to make it easier to identify latest ads;
which are at the bottom of the page.
19.
20. School News
• Easy access to all the up-to-date news about
the law school
• Easy to read the content of the news by
clicking on the little plus sign, which helps the
user to read all the news more efficiently and
quicker.
• News about all the success of City
graduates and professors, i.e.. the
Mooting Competition. This shows the
overall success of the Law School and all
the high
21.
22. Useful Links
• Useful links as mentioned in its • Don’t be left behind! The easy to
title- is indeed very useful! use Exam Timetable, the StudyWell
guide, Timetabling and Moodle will
make sure you have all the
• Links to most often used websites information for the most effective
such as Facebook (obviously), studying
Moodle and City University email.
• Helpful especially to first year
student to aid their confusion of
where to find their timetables and
school staff hours etc. Direct links = efficiency, less
confusion, east access
• Saves you a lot of time.
23.
24. Events Calendar
• Shows students the events that are taking place within the ever-
evolving world of law.
• Insight into how much more there is to do outside of the lecture
hall, to satisfy their jurisprudential curiosity.
• Information about various events range from debates and
conferences to lectures from experts in their field of law.
• Enhance your current affairs knowledge by keeping updated with the
events calendar
• The calendar contains competition essay deadlines and career fairs; clicking on the link will direct you to the main
website which provides further details on how to get involved.
• Easy to use
• Calendar with days with events marked in grey
• By simply hovering over it with the mouse it shows the reader what events are taking place.
25.
26. Databases
• Very useful websites where relevant cases can
be found, i.e.. Westlaw
• Each database is explained in summary, including
what material can be found there.
•If the suitable database is found, then the user is
able to click on ‘connect’ which will enable them
with a very easy and efficient access to the
databases.
• The access to see the summary of each
database is made easy by the use of the plus sign,
enabling the user to view the summary quickly.
27.
28. E-Library
Why is it useful?
• E‐journals , e‐reports and e‐books‐ saves ;me needed to find these resources
• Easily accessible
• If you don’t find copy in the library you can always print it out and reading and
make annota;ons
• Alphabe;cally organised –don’t have to siG through numerous journals to find
the one you require
• Always requires city login – so no other students can use it
Sorted in to
Divided in to sub categories
• Tells you where the report is from, who it is published by and what is required alphabetical
to access it order
• Essen%ally does your research for you Image of the journal
How could it be improved further?
• In the corner of the page therefore it could be easily missed
Useful when citing the journal
