Help Wanted Library website: - Services page for basic borrowing information and opening hours - Guides and Online Help – Creative and Cultural Industries page Filmmaking & Screenwriting, Study Skills, Evaluating Websites… Moodle: - Library guides - UWS Referencing Guide under Quicklinks Subject Librarians

Finding Information – what should you be looking for?  Books, print and electronic  DVDs  Newspaper articles  Journal articles  Internet sites

Books – print /electronic  Reading list books in UWS Library – search library catalogue  Reference books  Print books can be requested from other Campus Libraries, takes about 3 days  Return books to any Campus Library  eBooks require University network login for access

Reference Books  The Business of Entertainment / SIC  Encyclopedia of Radio / STE  Encyclopedia of Television / NEW  Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film / AIT

DVDs  Listed in Library catalogue by title and director  Red folder of title listings of DVDs – separate listing for documentaries  Ayr Campus Library - printed list next to DVD stands, section of music DVDs by title and artist  One week loan for DVDs

Journals Print Journals  Broadcast  Journal of Radio & Audio Media  Televisual Electronic Journals  Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television  Journal of British Cinema and Television  Media, Culture and Society  Screen  Studies in Documentary Film

Finding newspaper/journal articles by topic Use the databases on the Library website on the CCI Electronic Resources page. For example:  Taylor & Francis Journals  Newsbank (full text British newspaper articles)

Databases with film and sound clips  British Library Sounds  Independent Radio  Screen Online  All clips used need to be acknowledged and referenced.

Harvard Referencing  Whether you have been using books, journals or websites for your research, they will all need to be acknowledged and referenced using UWS Harvard.  Examples for how to reference all kinds of texts and images are available in the CoRE (Collection of Referencing Examples) available on Moodle.

To google or not to google?  Google actually only searches between 10-20% of Internet  Remaining 70% - 80% known as ‘Invisible Web’  Scroll through more than first screen of results  Use more than one search engine  Google Advanced Search Exact phrase searching

Evaluating Websites or why you shouldn’t reference Wikipedia Who is the intended audience of the website? Scope of the website? Are there political, ideological, cultural, religious or institutional biases? Authority / Authorship Are there other websites covering the same or similar subjects? Evaluating Websites – guidelines on Library website