1. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® Information for Grad Students Library Instruction Fall 2006

2. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 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. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 3 Library Homepage (www.lib.uwaterloo.ca)www.lib.uwaterloo.ca

4. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 4 Your WATCARD Your Barcode

5. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 5 Libraries & Hours

6. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 6 Libraries & Hours

7. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 7 Libraries & Hours

8. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 8 Libraries & Hours

9. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 9 Services for Grad Students

10. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 10 Services for Grad Students

11. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 11 Services for Grad Students

12. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 12 Services for Grad Students

13. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 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. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 14 Your Liaison Librarian

15. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 15 Your Liaison Librarian

16. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 16 Your Liaison Librarian

17. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 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. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 18 Your Library Account

19. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 19 Your Library Account

20. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 20 Your Library Account

21. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 21 Your Library Account Online renewal

22. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 22 Any Questions?

23. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 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. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 24 TRELLIS

25. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 25 TRELLIS

26. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 26 TRELLIS

27. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 27 TRELLIS

28. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 28 TRELLIS

29. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 29 TRELLIS

30. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 30 TRELLIS

31. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 31 TRELLIS Submit button

32. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 32 TRELLIS

33. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 33 TRELLIS

34. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 34 TRELLIS

35. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 35 TRELLIS Since I’m already signed in, I don’t have to enter my barcode, etc. again…

36. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 36 TRELLIS

37. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 37 TRELLIS

38. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 38 Any Questions?

39. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 39 Connecting from Home Research Databases E-Journals Electronic Books E-Data

40. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 40 Connect from Home

41. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 41 Connect from Home

42. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 42 Research Databases To find journal articles, –Use Research Databases (i.e., journal indexes) NOT –E-Journals

43. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 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. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 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

45. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 45 Research Databases

46. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 46 Research Databases

47. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 47 Research Databases

48. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 48 Research Databases

49. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 49 Research Databases

50. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 50 Research Databases

51. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 51 Research Databases

52. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 52 Research Databases

53. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 53 Research Databases

54. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 54 Research Databases

55. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 55 Research Databases

56. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 56 Research Databases

57. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 57 Research Databases

58. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 58 Research Databases

59. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 59 Research Databases

60. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 60 Research Databases

61. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 61 Any Questions?

62. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 62 Document Delivery Article from a journal in TRELLIS? –TUGdoc –“request item from TRELLIS” Not in TRELLIS? –CISTI Source 1993- Largely science and technology, but some arts and social sciences –RACER (InterLibrary Loan) All Ontario university libraries plus… –“request item not in TRELLIS”

63. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 63 TUGdoc I need an article from volume 8 and it’s a snowy day, so I don’t want to go get it

64. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 64 TRELLIS

65. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 65 TUGdoc

66. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 66 TUGdoc

67. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 67 TUGdoc

68. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 68 TUGdoc Automatically entered Fill in this part Select this option

69. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 69 CISTI Source & RACER

70. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 70 CISTI Source & RACER

71. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 71 CISTI Source

72. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 72 CISTI Source

73. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 73 CISTI Source

74. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 74 CISTI Source

75. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 75 CISTI Source

76. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 76 CISTI Source Confirmation number – write it down for tracking purposes if necessary

77. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 77 RACER

78. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 78 RACER

79. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 79 RACER

80. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 80 RACER

81. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 81 RACER

82. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 82 RACER

83. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 83 RACER Automatically entered Fill in this part

84. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 84 RACER

85. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 85 RACER Confirmation number – write it down for tracking purposes if necessary

86. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 86 Can’t wait? (for TUGdoc/CISTI Source/RACER) Visit another Ontario library… …but search their Library catalogue first! Photocopy article(s) Borrow book(s) directly …return books at UW

87. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 87 Any Questions?

88. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 88 RefWorks What is RefWorks? A personal bibliographic software manager –Manages citations –Creates bibliographies –Helps you write your term papers Accessible from anywhere!

89. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 89 RefWorks Why use RefWorks? Keep track of articles on your topic – or several topics Create bibliographies easily and quickly in over 200 citation styles Submitting your article to more than one journal expecting different citation styles? –A click of the mouse will change the style to fit the requirements of the journal Insert references into a Word document and have in-text ciations and the bibliography automatically generated using the Write-N-Cite module

90. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 90 RefWorks How do I access RefWorks? Click on the RefWorks link on the Library’s homepage http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/ (log in from anywhere using the Group Code given to you in the RefWorks e-mail message received when you register)http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/

91. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 91 RefWorks

92. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 92 RefWorks

93. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 93 “Ask a Librarian” Your Liaison Librarian! Online Reference (Chat and MSN) E-mail Phone In person 6 ways to talk to us!

94. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 94 “Ask a Librarian”

95. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 95 “Ask a Librarian”

96. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 96 Any Questions?

97. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 97 Need more information? Contact your Liaison Librarian Attend another Library instruction session (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/index.html)http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/index.html –Smart Searching Techniques –Find Journal Articles Fast –TRELLIS –RefWorks –Etc.

98. Exercise Your Mind @ your Library ® 98 THANK YOU!