Resource guides highlight the different types of information available from the Library. They include recommended sources alongside advice for finding and using different kinds of information in your research.
Category: Intermediate
This page details the guidance and support available to researchers through the Library.
This guide runs you through everything you need to know to get started using Excel, and covers all of the basics on navigation, formatting, using calculations, and creating graphics, charts, and tables.
Develop your Excel skills (about 1-2 hours).
This short course explains different image file formats and what you would use them for, and teaches you how to create and edit simple images and diagrams using familiar Microsoft apps. Finally, the course runs through copyright considerations.
A short course teaching you how to use the various review tools in Microsoft Word. Includes tools such as spellchecker, and also collaborative tools such as comments and track changes.
Mailing Lists
The Mailing Lists service provides email-based distribution lists to enable groups within the University to exchange information more easily than via conventional ‘one to one’ email exchange.
Mailing lists (about 1-2 hours).
Guidance on how to access and use Microsoft Office 365 applications from anywhere.
This page hosts all of the training courses for using SAP – the system the university uses for business and finance infrastructure, and student management.
Details the opportunity to meet with an NUIT specialist to consult on the accessibility of content.
Accessibility advice consultation (up to half an hour).
The File Drop-Off service provides members of the University with the ability to share large data files securely with others where the size of the data file is too large to be practicably sent by other means (such as an email attachment).
File drop-off: send and receive large files (under 10 minutes).