Library Research Clinic for HOD Graduate Students

Leslie Foutch, Librarian for HOD

Research Clinic Highlights

• Basic Library Services• Off-campus access to e-resources (VUnet ID &

e-password)• Research Guide for HOD• The VUfinder tool• Library catalogs• My job as your liaison• Contacting me: phone, email, research

consultations by appointment or just stop by my office (ground floor, office #009)

Basic Library Services

• Checking out books: 90 day loan period• Interlibrary loan• OAK• APA Citation Style, EndNote and Zotero• Wireless access (SSID configuration)• Technology in the Library

Library Catalogs

• ACORN: the “legacy” catalog of the VU Libraries

• DiscoverLibrary: the VU Libraries metasearch tool

• Kudzu: Catalog of libraries across the Southeast

• WorldCat: Catalog of more than 125 million records from U.S. libraries and libraries around the world.

Research Guide for HOD

So before the first research assignment is here and this happens….

Contact me. I am just an email away at:

• leslie.foutch@vanderbilt.edu

• Questions about today’s presentation

Need your feedback!

• Please browse to m.socrative.com and enter room number: 3281974

• Answer the following:

What was most valuable about attending today’s workshop?