Library guide to architecture and online resources

Welcome to 1st Years for Architecture Daphne Chalk-Birdsall Subject Librarian for ASD

Welcome to Library Resources for International Foundation Programme Art and Architecture With Daphne Chalk-Birdsall Subject Librarian for ASD

Making the Most of London Met Libraries 1. Getting Started Library Services 2008-2009

What we’ll be covering

Finding your way round the library web site

Managing your library account online

Using the online catalogue (OPAC) to find the resources on your reading lists

Using Contents Lists and Indexes in print books

The importance of referencing

Plagiarism - what is it and how to avoid it

Library Services Web Site

Online library catalogue

Subject Librarians details

Subject guides

Online resources listings

e-books, e-journals, online newspapers, conference proceedings, etc.

Information on how to reference in your work

Online tutorials

www. londonmet .ac. uk /libraries

General Library Services www.londonmet.ac.uk/libraries ONLINE Resources LISTINGS Citing Your References and other tutorials

Online Library Catalogue

http://catalogue. londonmet .ac. uk

1.Managing your account – renewals etc

2.What we have and where to find it:

Books, journals, DVDs, videos etc

3.The route through to online resources:

E-books

E-journals

Databases

IT Username and Password to access your library account to renew your books

Renew your books - as many times as you like as long as no one else has reserved them. Note the new due date for each item Reading history lists all the books you have taken out

Finding a book from a reading list Choose author/title from the range of search options

Woods, Peter (2006) Successful writing for qualitative researchers, 2 nd ed. London: Routledge

Type in author’s last name

2. Type in first word of title 3. Click on Search

Select the 2006 edition

Click here to reserve How to Make a Reservation and state Your Need for this book These copies are available IN the Holloway Road Library. Otherwise they would have a Due date in STATUS BOX

Status Due 03-10-08 = Book Not Available Click this Reservation button to Request the book

Reservations are done by using your Username & Password – you would use these for all online resources at LondonMet. Drop down menu lets you pick which library you want to collect your request from

Now it is your turn!

Do an author/title search on the catalogue to find the following item

Berger Ways of Seeing

Finding a newspaper article from a reading list

Nexis UK

UK national newspapers - Sun, Telegraph, Mirror, Star, News of the World

International newspapers in different languages

UK Broadsheets ‘quality’ news from

The Guardian, The Times,The Independent, The Telegraph

The Importance of Referencing

To acknowledge the source of your information, ideas and arguments

To allow readers/markers to access/check your sources.

To give credit to other people’s work.

To demonstrate that you have read a range of sources.

Failure to give credit could be considered to be plagiarism

Referencing a Book

Author(s) or Editor(s)

Date

Title

Edition

Place

Publisher

Numeration within item if referenced in your text

Curran, James and Seaton, Jean (2003) Power without responsibility: the press, broadcasting and new media in Britain 6 th ed. London: Routledge

Step 1 : Author/Editor Step 2: Date Step 3: Title Step 4 : Edition Step 5: Place Step 6: Publisher

Referencing a journal article

Greenfield, J. (2006) The Sevso Treasure: the legal case, Apollo , 146 (312), 14-16.

Author(s)

Date

Title of article

Journal title (in italics)

Volume (issue or part)

Pages

A reminder of what we have covered……..

The library web pages

Managing your account online

Using the catalogue

The importance of referencing

and if you get stuck……..

Further Help

Library Enquiry Desk

Subject Librarian drop-in sessions/appointments

Online tutorials

Other Library sessions within LDU programme

Online resources

Google and beyond

LDU Study Skills Sessions

Introduction to Architecture and Spatial Design Electronic Resources Technical resources - design or science? Digimap Technical Indexes info4education Academic resources - design or science? GreenFILE

Digimap can help ASD students with plans as well as OS maps both historical and current Holloway Road Library is in an old mirror factory

24 hits GreenFile gives Citations & abstracts before they’ve been published & full-text articles

Full text articles using subscription databases

JSTOR

ScienceDirect

Ebsco Academic Search Premier

Economic & Social Data Service

Journals available on the Library Catalogue

Academic Search Premier to access GreenFILE 24 academic citations

ScienceDirect 35 citations for Low energy and architectural design includes Full-text PDF’s

Oxford Art Online aka Grove Art Online for Architectural and Spatial Design information and pictures

Register for the Library using library self-service tools such as Reservations + Inter-Library loans Other Resources RIBA Library and V + A SCONUL Access , M25 Consortium of Libraries , Index to Theses , Zetoc , BL OPAC

Daphne Chalk-Birdsall ASD Subject Librarian