ABOUT THE LIBRARY AND

THE LIBRARY’S RESOURCES

by Aurelie Gandour

Your Reading List

• Physical documents in the library

• Online versions to access from home

The Catalogue

• Find physical documents

• And eBooks!

• Renew your documents

• Put holds

• Make suggestions

• Ask for InterLibrary Loans

Library vs Shibboleth accounts

Library vs Shibboleth accounts

The One-Stop-Shop for Journals

• JOURNALS, not articles

• Find them, access them

Staff Publications

• A repository that

collects together

the work of

clinical and

academic staff

• Simple records

• But often full-text

• Follow us online!

Subject Guides • A current snapshot

• Specific subject areas

• Videos, podcasts,

newsreels, scholarly

articles, current

articles from

journals…

• New information is

being fed onto the

pages hourly, daily

or weekly.

Bibliographic Databases

• Articles searchable by subject

• Information shown as records

The Library Online

• The Moodle course for Information Skills

• A Help Blog with lots of info

• The Twitter account for Information Skills:

@iSkillsTavi

• The library’s main Twitter account:

@tapchat

• The library’s Facebook: Tavilibrary

Time for a quizz!

Time for a quizz! • How would you

search for an

eBook?

• Where would you

look for a thesis

written by a staff

member?

• How can you access

a bunch of articles

on a particular

subject?

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