Please come along to one of our awareness sessions at the KeyPoint and find out “How to steer clear of library fines”. Drop-in sessions will run on Mon 1/12 to Fri 5/12 between 12-2pm.
The staff will help you to understand how library fines can occur and give you some useful tips on how to avoid them and keep on top of your library account.
The report from the latest User Group meeting is now available on our Meetings page. Check our News page for information on how we progress your comments.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday 25 February at 12noon – lunch will be provided as well as either a £5 print credit or £5 café voucher. If you would like to come along and give us your feedback, just contact Julia Targett. If you can’t make the meeting but would like to tell us what you think of the service we provide, just email our feedback team.
Are you a Medway-registered student for University of Kent, University of Greenwich or Canterbury Christ Church University? If so, we’d love to hear your feedback about the Drill Hall Library and the services we offer.
The Library has a termly User Group, where academics and students meet over free tea, coffee and sandwiches to discuss developments in the Library, and to take feedback about what we do well and what we could do better. We want to hear from students from all three institutions, undergraduates and postgraduates. The next meeting is in room DA002 in the Library on the 29th October 2014 at 12 noon.
All students are invited to attend and those who stay for the whole meeting can claim a £5 voucher for use in the Archibald Hay Mess, or £5 print credit. Please just confirm that you’d like to attend by emailing us at dhl-feedback@gre.ac.uk. You can also use that address to send us your thoughts even if you can’t attend the meeting.
Our slogan here is ‘Your Library, your future’, so what you think is really important to us. I look forward to hearing from you!
Dave Puplett
Drill Hall Library Manager
Universities at Medway
You may have spotted that over the summer our library cafe, The Archibald Hay Mess, has acquired a brand new wall mural by the artist Wei Ong aka Silent Hobo. As custodians of the Drill Hall we are very aware of the building’s naval history and felt that we wanted to do something special to mark the occasion of the Centenary of the First World War.
We therefore launched a public art commission and a number of artists responded to our brief to create an original artwork that drew inspiration from the local community (past, present and future), the history of the Drill Hall and Chatham Maritime heritage as well as representing all that is new and vibrant in the area and the library.
We think Silent Hobo has done a brilliant job in capturing the brief in a modern yet sympathetic way that has something for everyone. A time lapse video of him in action is available to watch on our You Tube channel.
We’re planning an official reception evening towards the end of October to mark the commission and to give everyone the opportunity to meet Silent Hobo. All staff and students at Medway are welcome to attend and more details about this will be announced shortly.
UPDATE – The official reception will be help on Thursday 30th October from 5-8pm. This will mark the commission and give everyone the opportunity to meet Silent Hobo. All staff and students at Medway are welcome to attend.
Welcome to all of our new students, and welcome back to all of those continuing your study at Medway! It’s been a busy summer in the Drill Hall Library and we’d like to tell you about some of our news:
We’d love to hear your feedback about the Drill Hall, and you can always speak to any member of staff or click on the Feedback tab on our website. We also have a User Group every term where you can come and share your thoughts on the library. We’ll advertise this later in the term. To keep up to date with what’s happening in the library follow us on Twitter (@drillhalllib), find us on Facebook (Drill Hall Library).
Dave Puplett, Drill Hall Library Manager
Your library, your future
Over the coming weeks we will be carrying out some essential shelf moving within the library. The areas being worked on will be partitioned off with barriers, but books will still be available. If you need to get a book from a closed area any member of staff will be happy to help you.
Let us know your thoughts about the services at the Drill Hall Library, including the trial of 24/7 opening. What do you like? What don’t you like? What could we do better?
We’re just asking for about 10 minutes of your time to complete our on-line survey. As an added bonus, two lucky participants will be selected at random to win £25 in vouchers.
Your feedback is really helpful to us and we use these surveys to plan for the future. So please have your say!
Staff and students of the Drill Hall Library are taking part in a Dragon Boat Race to raise money for charity – many local and national charities will benefit from this event.
The race will take place on Sunday 25th May 2014 in Basin 2 of Chatham Maritime. The race is part of the Chatham Maritime Food & Drinks Festival and the visit of the Dunkirk Little Ships.
Come along and cheer for us at what promised to be a fun day by the river.
If you can’t come along on the day, but would like to make a donation, here’s the link: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/drillhalldragons
All Medway-registered students are invited to join us for our termly Drill Hall Library Users Group. Any students who attend will be given the choice of £5 credit for use in the Archibald Hay Mess or as Printer Credit. Your feedback helps us design and deliver the services that Medway students and staff use every day, so please come and tell us what you think! It’s on Wednesday 14th May at 2pm in DA015.
Hot drinks and cakes will also be provided at the meeting.
If you can’t make the meeting you can still send us feedback any time by emailing dhl-feedback@gre.ac.uk, using our Comments and Suggestions box by the main entrance or speaking to any member of staff.
Due to the popularity of our iPad lending scheme, we’ve extended the trial period until the end of June 2014. Over the course of the next couple of weeks we’ll be asking everyone who has borrowed one so far to complete a short survey. This will inform any changes we may need to improve the scheme for next year. Thank you to everyone who has already given feedback. We will also be updating any Apps that are out of date.
For more information visit our iPad webpage.
