Introduction to Digital Skills

Discover and learn new digital skills to help you study effectively and enhance your employability with our range of tutorial pages curated especially for Hallam students.

The Library has a range of resources that can be accessed online and off campus:

• over 450,000 eBooks.

• over 98,000 e-journals.

• 376 databases and specialist resources.

• SHUPlayer and BoB (Box of Broadcasts) for your audio visual resources.

How do I login to library resources?

Many of the Library online resources are only accessible to Sheffield Hallam University students and staff. You can access the resources by using your SHU network username and password. If the resource does not work with your SHU network, there will be details on how to login on the Library Search record or the listing of the database in the A-Z list of databases.

If you have difficulties accessing Library resources off-campus then get in contact with the Library for support.

• Contact us for help.

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How can I request items that the library doesn't have?

If you need to access a resource that the library doesn't already have in our collections then please use our document supply service:

Request books, chapters and articles using Document Supply Services

Use document supply services to request a book or journal article. Document Supply Services have resumed supplying physical copies of books. However, there may be delays in supply times as this is a reciprocal service and is dependent on other libraries resuming their services to supply books

Request an item using our DSS request form on the link below:

• Request items using document supply services

Online subject support with your librarian: finding information

If you would like some help with finding materials to support your studies, including searching databases, then you can get help from your subject librarian.  All you need to do is ask! When you get in contact, just make sure that you ask for one to one support with your subject librarian. 

If you would like support from your subject librarian then please get in contact with the Library using the link below to the Library Contact Us page.

• Library contact us pages

Blackboard

Blackboard, which can be accessed by MyHallam, is our online teaching platform and provides an electronic space for you to interact with your modules. Blackboard is used by your lecturers to share course materials and assessment information and is also where you will receive your grades and feedback. 

Blackboard can also be used for online discussions, sending you course related notifications and online group work. It will be one of the most important tools during your studies, and here you will learn the basics of Blackboard.