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Information for Grad Students

Information for Grad Students Library Instruction Fall 2006 What we’ll cover… The Basics: WATCARD, Libraries & Hours, Services for Grad Students, Your Library Account, Your Liaison Librarian Books: TRELLIS (the Library catalogue) Connecting from Home

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Information for Grad Students

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  1. Information for Grad Students Library Instruction Fall 2006

  2. What we’ll cover… • The Basics: WATCARD, Libraries & Hours, Services for Grad Students, Your Library Account, Your Liaison Librarian • Books: TRELLIS (the Library catalogue) • Connecting from Home • Journal Articles: Research Databases/Journal Indexes, Electronic Journals • Document Delivery: Articles & Books • RefWorks: Bibliographic management software • Help when you need it

  3. Library Homepage(www.lib.uwaterloo.ca)

  4. Your WATCARD Your Barcode

  5. Libraries & Hours

  6. Libraries & Hours

  7. Libraries & Hours

  8. Libraries & Hours

  9. Services for Grad Students

  10. Services for Grad Students

  11. Services for Grad Students

  12. Services for Grad Students

  13. Your Liaison Librarian • A subject specialist • Subject Guides • Help with Library services and resources • Comprehensive literature research assistance • Personal or group consultations • Book purchase requests accepted

  14. Your Liaison Librarian

  15. Your Liaison Librarian

  16. Your Liaison Librarian

  17. Your Library Account • Books you have on loan • Borrow books for a term (unless recalled) • Renew your books online • E-mail reminder sent near end of term • Fines or other problems

  18. Your Library Account

  19. Your Library Account

  20. Your Library Account

  21. Your Library Account Online renewal

  22. Any Questions?

  23. TRELLIS (the Library Catalogue) • Find books, journals, government documents, conferences, theses, etc. …at UW, UG, WLU, & Annex • Get item Location, Status, and Call Number • Request items – books, copies of journal articles

  24. TRELLIS

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  31. TRELLIS Submit button

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  35. TRELLIS • Since I’m already signed in, I don’t have to enter my barcode, etc. again…

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  38. Any Questions?

  39. Connecting from Home • Research Databases • E-Journals • Electronic Books • E-Data

  40. Connect from Home

  41. Connect from Home

  42. Research Databases • To find journal articles, • Use Research Databases (i.e., journal indexes) NOT • E-Journals

  43. Research Databases Why use them? • Find articles on your topic • Save time (faster than browsing) • Get brief descriptions (abstracts) • Link to the full text in many cases

  44. Research Databases How to choose them: • Different databases for different topics • Note the date ranges • You may have to search more than one database for a topic

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