Stress Busting Day in the Library - 17th March

                          

Beauty Therapy 10.00-12.00 and Sports Science 11.00-13.00 students will be in the Library Monday 17th March for a Stress Busting Day!

Everyone Welcome!!

Come along to take basic fitness tests (including grip, body fat and blood pressure checks), see head massage demos, get advice on healthy living and give your self a break from the working day!

                     

Why not take 5 minutes to browse the shelves and have some ‘me’ time? Find more stress busting tips here. 

    Find more about beating stress at shelf no. 155.9042  

                                 

Hairdressing Training - Llandrillo Students - Update

This resource can now be accessed via the Novell log-in screen at

Novell/Mulitmedia & Reference/Online Refernce/Hairdressing Training

Double click on the icon      to open the resource

You will not need a password while opening the resouce on campus.

See the original post to gain access to the resource from home 

Oh, if I had hammer…..Carpentry and Wood Occupations

Professional Associations : British Woodworking Federation , Institute of Carpenters , Forrestry Commission , Brit. Antique Furniture Restorers Assoc. , Health and Safety Executive  

Union of Construction Allied Trades & Technicians , Timber Trade Federation    Construction Skills , Nat. Assoc. Shopfitters , Shipbuilders & Shiprepairers Assoc. , Soc. Brit. Theatre Designers.

 Materials - Ask Trada , WoodDatabase , the Woodbox 

 

   Tips and Advice - Woodworking , Wood Workers Central ,       WoodCentral , WoodNet , Geoff’s Woodwork , The Wood Awards , BBC SkillWise.

 

           Glossary : Woodworking Terms  and  Basic Joints

     Career Advice - Joiner/Carpenter 

Measure twice cut once!!!!

See more on this subject in the library at shelf no. 694

Hairdressing Training Online - FREE for Llandrillo Students

***NEW***

 

• Step by step guides for ladies and mens cuts
• Text and picture instructions
• Powerpoint presentation tutorials
• Test Questions for each topic
• PDF notes to download

                                                  

• Equipment glossary, including cutting tools and styling products  
• Lessons on hair analysis, perming and dressing long hair

Have you applied for your ATHENS account yet?

This gives you free access to all the on-line library resources on the college network and at home  - ask in the library for details or download a form in Moodle.

Subject Finder - FE Online Resources

 

Subject Finder (developed by Lambeth College) provides access to high-quality web resources for academics, teachers, lectures and students categorised by subject areas across many FE disciplines. It is designed to search only educational websites, without users being overwhelmed with a huge number of search results.

Find Online Resources for:

Construction             Carpentry            Engineering             Electronics         Sports  

Travel & Tourism          Accounting            Beauty Therapy        Social Care

     Sign Language            Sociology           Arts & Crafts          Charities        Performing

 and many more………

Previous posts on these subjects can be found by clicking the links on the left of the LibeRaCe home page.

You Beauty! Update

 

Hair and Beauty Information for salons, employees, trainers and students…

Based in Doncaster, Habia is the non-profit government approved standards setting body for hair, beauty, nails, spa therapy, barbering and African-Caribbean hair, and creates the standards that form the basis of all qualifications including NVQs, SVQs and Apprenticeships, as well as codes of practice.

 See other beauty and hairdressing links in previous LibaRaCe posts

New Business - Know Your Market!

The British Library have produced Industry Guides to help new businesses research their target market.

Containing both resource lists of useful reports and links to online information - they are a valuable asset to your marketing mix!

 Useful for our fashion, beauty, wood occupations, sports, design, catering, music, tourism and film students!!

 

World Skills Competition - Get Involved

 

 

 

Have you got what it takes?

Worldskills UK is on for 2008! Find out more information for your subject on their website and ask your tutors for more details…..

You Beauty!

Tone up your assigmenments with this selection of links plucked from the WWW e-spa-cially for you. Face up to facts, you’ll need to pore over more resources than ever to clean up at exam time……..  

The Professionals BABTAC, British Spa association, Professional Beauty, Guild of Professional Beauty Therapists, British Skin Foundation

Business Information                                                                     What if your client has a problem?  

Ancient beauty tips and how different are they from today’s?

Magazines  International Therapist (in library), Health & Beauty Salon (in library), Beauty Magazine Online, Todays Therapist.

Find a job

Find all your Alternative Therapies in the library at shelf 615 and all Beauty Therapy books in on shelf 646.72

Free Online Tutorials

Want to improve your online research skills in your own time? The Intute Virtual Training Suite can help you do just that.

  

This site is free, simple to use, accessible from home and updated by subject professionals. They have recently added 9 new tutorials for Science and Engineering, with 8 more for the Arts, Humanities and Health. Tutorials now available include:

• Internet for Construction
• Internet for Earth Science
• Internet for Engineering (FE)
• Internet for Health and Safety
• Internet for Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Internet for Mechanical Engineering   

And also:

• Internet for Art and Design
• Internet for Media and Communication
• Internet for English
• Internet for Fashion and Beauty
• Internet for Learning Languages
• Internet for Music