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Accessing library resources for students 20160314
- 1. How to access information for students
- 2. Reference & Liaison Librarian Natalie Smith Phone +64 4 830 0155 Email: natalie.smith@weltec.ac.nz
- 3. Plan for today’s session Introduction to: – Library catalogue – Research databases – e-book providers Remember you are welcome to ask questions at any time
- 4. WelTec Learning Commons Librarians and Learning Advisors are available on all campuses to assist you with: • Accessing a wide range of relevant books, journals, videos and online resources • Finding the resources required to support your study • Researching information on your chosen subjects • Referencing your material correctly using the APA referencing format
- 5. Where do you find information?
- 6. Where you find information? • Our WelTec Library • Your local Library • Databases • Books • Journals • Websites • Newspapers
- 7. Tools for searching • EBSCOhost • Library Catalogue • Proquest Ebook Central • Safari • Google Scholar • Search engines Use these to find articles, books and websites
- 8. How to access the Library website • Go to the WelTec website • Locate Library under the Support Services OR • Locate Library on the bar at the bottom of the page
- 10. How to search the Library catalogue Type your required term in the main search box Search using keywords Keywords can be title, surname of an author or a subject Use “ ”when searching for a phrase
- 11. Results • Results are displayed in the centre • You can refine your search • You can try your search in the SMART Catalogue • You can access electronic resources
- 12. How to read a catalogue record
- 13. Try a search • Look up a course required text? • Look up an author? • Look up a subject area?
- 14. Accessing textbooks May be on Closed Reserve or 3 Day Loan if they are course texts or recommended readings
- 15. Did you know you can… • Reserve books yourself and check your loans • Request alerts for new items that match your preferences • Request books from other campuses and libraries as a SMART library borrower • Recommend new items for our collection
- 16. Accessing SMART Libraries • SMART is a network enabling free access to 22 libraries in the Great Wellington region, including Hutt City Libraries and Whitireia Library. • You can access more than 500,000 books, DVDs, magazines and more. • You WelTec ID card is your SMART Library card.
- 17. Accessing databases • Electronic collections of articles • Easy to search and access • Accessible from our Library website First let’s take a look at EBSCOhost: a powerful online reference system offering full text articles, e-journals and multimedia resources from general collections to specially designed, subject- specific databases.
- 18. How to access EBSCOhost 1. Go to the Library website 2. Click on Databases and Articles 3. Locate EBSCOhost
- 19. How to search EBSCOhost Basic search video: http://support.ebsco.com/training/flash_videos /basic_search/basic_search.html Research Skills guide: You can also take away a ‘Research Skills guide’ to remind you how to search this database
- 20. How to access ProQuest Central 1. Go to the Library website 2. Click on Databases and Articles 3. ProQuest Central
- 21. ProQuest Central
- 22. Accessing e-books Two providers: Both accessible from the Library website under the e-books link
- 23. How to access ProQuest Ebook Central
- 24. Example of e-book available from ProQuest Ebook Central
- 25. Safari
- 26. Any further questions? • Please remember to fill out an evaluation form at the end of the session. Your feedback is valuable to us. Thank you
- 27. Constructing a search Remember to clearly define your topic , what is your practice related question? Let’s brainstorm some key concepts and search terms What are the keywords, synonyms and related terms?
- 28. Mendeley
Editor's Notes
- Hi, today I’m going to introduce you to how to access information that I hope will be useful to you as students at WelTec
- First, I’ll introduce myself, my name is Natalie Smith and I’m a Reference & Liaison Librarian here at WelTec in the Learning Commons. I have been assigned the schools of Business and IT and Hospitality to liaise with and can provide reference assistance to students as required.
- The plan for today is to introduce you to the Library catalogue, research databases and our e-book providers. This is an interactive session and you are welcome to ask questions at any time.
- I’d also like to promote the assistance that the Library can provide for you: - READ SLIDE
- Ask question…wait for any responses then use next slide to offer some suggestions.
- I’d like to look at where you can find information: Our WelTec Library Your local Library Databases Books Journals Websites Newspapers
- There are some specific tools you can use to search and obtain access to some great databases, catalogues and websites that you’ll be able to apply to any topic you are researching. You may or may not have heard of any of these before? Has anyone used any of these?
- First we’ll start with how you access the Library website. There are two ways to do this from the WelTec website you can either go to the link on the bottom of the page or you can find the Library under the Support Services tab.
- Here’s what the WelTec Library website looks like. It provides access to not only our Library catalogue but also our research databases, subject and research guides, e-book providers and alerts you to Library services too.
- Let’s begin with how to search the Library catalogue, it’s fairly intuitive and just requires you to search using this box. Type your required term and click search. – You may like to go live at this point and try a search, explain navigation etc.
- When searching for ‘Human resource management’ here are the results – use slide to explain how to refine, try the search in the SMART catalogue and how there might be access provided to electronic resources.
- When you’ve found a book/resource you want you can see where it is located, which collection it is in, the call or shelf number and if it is available. Here’s an example of a box located at 3 different campuses. As WelTec students you can request items from different campuses.
- Go live to do this. You might also like to mention that students can ‘sign-in’ to the Library website using their student ID and password (this is a four digit number that they can ask at the Library issue desk to be set for them) and then they can reserve books, request interloans, see what they have out and renew them if they can.
- You may want to look at a textbook in the areas of your study to assist with an assignment
- Read slide
- Read slide Mention again when searching our catalogue you can opt to select ‘Try this search in the SMART Catalogue’ and then it will show you what other Libraries hold these books – they can then be reserved. NB. We can’t access other libraries electronic resources though.
- Next we’ll look at accessing our research databases and in particular our main database provider EBSCOhost.
- Explain slide
- Select to watch video (only 2 mins long)
- Explain slide
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- We have two providers of e-books, one is ProQuest Ebook Central and one is Safari. They can be accessed from the Library website – see e-books under Find Information
- Frist we’ll have a look at ProQuest Ebook Central – navigate to this page, explain that it does require you to sign-in so encourage the students to do this whilst on campus. You can also mention there is a library guide on this to tell you more – available from the Library website, or in hardcopy at the Library desk.
- Try a search live – as these screenshots are sometimes too small and are explained better in person. You can either read online or choose to download a copy of an e-book to read via a book reading app. This book will be ‘on loan’ for 1 day or can be requested for up to 7 days. Again – mention using the guide for further information.
- Safari is our other e-book provider, mainly specialising in technology and business books and usually for titles published in the last two years. You don’t have to sign up to access this provider but you do have to be a WelTec student and accessing it either from on-campus or if you are off-campus, via Moodle or Citrix. Try a search.
- Before you access these resources it pays to spend a little bit of time looking at what you are researching and coming up with the concepts/key terms you are going to be using. Let’s do this now – what is your assignment topic and what subject are you looking for? Write these down…