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Library Survivor Families, help your Gator survive!

Directions: Go where the clue leads you. You’ll know you’re in the right place if you see the Library Survivor

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1. Booo, you have to write a research paper! You really, REALLY need to find the Research Assistance desk to find Library Research Survival Tips. 2. Everyone—everyone—gets lost in the library! Find the GV958 section of books. Are you lost yet? What subject is covered in this section? Good luck finding your way out! Hint: there are four stairwells! 3. Find group study room 220 and you’ll find your next research survival tip.

4. Library survival tip: keep money on your Gator Vending Account! You can’t print in the library with no money :`( But you can SCAN! Find the scanners on the 3rd floor, east side, and you’ll find another crucial library survival tip. Hint: look for the dual-monitor computers.

Library West

Presents

Library Survivor Families, help your Gator survive!

Directions: Go where the clue leads you. You’ll know you’re in the right place if you see the Library Survivor

banner.

1. Booo, you have to write a research paper! You really, REALLY need to find the Research Assistance desk to find Library Research Survival Tips. 2. Everyone—everyone—gets lost in the library! Find the GV958 section of books. Are you lost yet? What subject is covered in this section? Good luck finding your way out! Hint: there are four stairwells! 3. Find group study room 220 and you’ll find your next research survival tip.

4. Library survival tip: keep money on your Gator Vending Account! You can’t print in the library with no money :`( But you can SCAN! Find the scanners on the 3rd floor, east side, and you’ll find another crucial library survival tip. Hint: look for the dual-monitor computers.

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Did you know that your UF Libraries are organized by subject? That’s why all the

science-y books are in the science library, all the music books are in the music library, all the education books are in the education library,

and so on!

Research skillzYou need ‘em, we teach ‘em!

YOU’RE NOT ALONE WHEN IT COMES TO DONG RESEARCH

FOR YOUR PAPERS AND PROJECTS.

Here are fast and easy ways to get help!

IN-PERSON (OLD-FASHIONED WAY)Every library on campus (all nine!) has a research assistance desk where you can talk to a librarian about your research needs.

IM A LIBRARIAN (SUPER CONVENIENT WAY)Use our online chat service to send instant messages to a librarian who’s waiting to help you. Ask-A-Librarian is accessible from the library’s homepage, www.uflib.ufl.edu

DO IT YOURSELF (SELF-SUFFICIENT WAY)Help is only a few clicks away on our website. Every subject taught at UF has a library research guide. Find yours under the “Finding Help” tab on the library’s homepage.

After you locate books in your subject area,

you’ll be able to browse the shelves and indulge

in scholastic bliss.

Maecenas pulvinar sagittis enim.

Yay for wireless! Studying hard at LW

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Critical to library survival is learning how to work the moveable shelves! Look up this video

on YouTube to see how they work http://goo.gl/ktFP or scan this QR code with your

phone to watch.Library skillz

You need ‘em, we teach ‘em!

THERE’S A COMPUTER RIGHT HERE. LOG ON AND

OPEN AN INTERNET BROWSER. CLICK THE HOME

BUTTON TO GO TO THE LIBRARY’S HOMEPAGE.

Use this computer to practice the VERY IMPORTANT library survival skill of looking up books. Type the title of one of those books you see on the shelves into the library catalog search box.

Important things to notice

Where does the book live? (There are 9 libraries, after all!)

What’s its call number and can I text it to myself ? (omg, YES!!)

Is the book checked out, or can I go get it? (If it’s checked out, you can put

yourself in line for it by clicking on the “request” link you’d see.)

Finding books!

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Study booths! Students LOVE to sit at the booths at LW.

There are more on the third floor. Lots more. Right here, the booths also have DVD and VHS players. What’s a “VHS,” you say? They went out of style before you were born :0) but we still

have lots that profs like to assign for class. Just bring your own headphones, ok?

Study spaces...You need ‘em, we have ‘em!

YOU HAVE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF PLACES TO

STUDY IN YOUR UF LIBRARIES. LW AND MSL

HAVE GROUP STUDY ROOMS AND QUIET STUDY FLOORS. ALL ‘BRARIES HAVE COMFY

CHAIRS AND LOVELY VIEWS.

Here’s more info you need to know!

ALL BY YOUR LONESOMESolitude, seas of students; ambient lighting, bright lighting; silence, lots of background noise; comfy chair, hard wooden chair; early morning; late at night. No matter how you like to study, we can accommodate you.

WITH YOUR FRIENDSMarston and West have group study rooms and every library has big tables to fit you, your friends, and all your study-stuff. The tables in West have plugs for your laptops, too!

LW and MSL haverolly whiteboards for you, too. We know how much good a few dry erase markers can do.

Comfy chairs and Florida views Still studying hard at LW

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InfoCommons! Plasma TV!You and your group members can reserve the

open area to practice your presentations. There’s a computer hooked up to that crazy-

big TV. We also hold events on this floor. Sometimes we even play Guitar Hero for a

study break!

Printing, scanning & copying

MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE MOULAH ON YOUR GATOR

VENDING ACCOUNT. NO PRINTING OR MAKING COPIES WITHOUT THE

MOULAH.

You can print from library computers!

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE $$$ ON YOUR ACCOUNTEvery library on campus has black/white printers and copiers. Architecture and Marston libraries also have COLOR printing/copying! Color = $.50/page, B/W = $.10/page.

SCANNING WORKS GREAT, TOO!You can scan articles and book chapters and email them to yourself or save them on your USB drive instead of photocopying. Saves paper and moulah!

MAGNIFIERS!If you need to magnify text to see it better, you can use the 3 special magnifiers over there to the right. MSL and EDU libraries have them, too. There’s more ADA equipment in the two media rooms in the hallway around the corner.

Here’s another video from the library’s

YouTube channel. We do stuff like this to

make your life easier :o)

Maecenas pulvinar sagittis enim.

Yay for wireless! Studying hard at LW

http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/librarysurvivorPrinting & scanning!