 

Maria Bell

Position: Learning Support Services Manager
Academic Support Librarian: Law, European Institute, European Documentation Centre

Maria Bell

Department: Academic Services
Telephone: 020 7955 7242
Email: m.bell@lse.ac.uk|

Maria is the Learning Support Services Manager leading on the development of the Library's learning support and training services.

She is also Academic Support Librarian for the Department of Law and the European Institute.

Maria joined LSE in 1997 as 'law librarian' having worked previously at a city law firm library. She took over responsibility for the European Documentation Centre in 2001 and has also worked with the United Nations documentation and the other  Inter-governmental organisations (IGO) materials.

Contact Maria for support with research in legal materials and EU information and Library-related matters.

Maria is responsible for the information literacy teaching programmes run by the Library providing learning support and teaching information and digital literacy skills to students of all levels to enable them to make the most of the extensive collections and research materials available to LSE staff and students for their research.

Contact Maria to discuss and arrange any information skills training required for students. Workshops can be organised for specific courses and tailored to students' needs at any point in their course.

Teaching, learning and research support

  • support for academic staff, keeping them informed of Library developments, discussing future courses and subsequent library requirements to support them
  • staff and students with support in making effective use of information resources and library collections 
  • specialist support for all Library users on legal and European Union related materials
  • advice and teaching on information and digital literacy to enable students and researchers to find, use and evaluate the wealth of materials available for their research.

Information Skills teaching

  • Going beyond Google: using the internet for research
  • Legal research skills: case law, legislation and journal literature
  • Literature searching
  • Introduction to copyright for academic staff (with Dr Jane Seckerof CLT)
  • Managing information: citing and referencing
  • Reference management tools: EndNote, EndNoteWeb, Mendeley, Zotero 
  • Researching the European Union, European Union case law and legislation
  • MY592 Workshop on Infomation Literacy (6 week course for new PhD students)
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