Exercise Your your Library ® Information for Grad Students Library Instruction Fall 2006

Exercise Your 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

Exercise Your your Library ® 3 Library Homepage (

Exercise Your your Library ® 4 Your WATCARD Your Barcode

Exercise Your your Library ® 5 Libraries & Hours

Exercise Your your Library ® 6 Libraries & Hours

Exercise Your your Library ® 7 Libraries & Hours

Exercise Your your Library ® 8 Libraries & Hours

Exercise Your your Library ® 9 Services for Grad Students

Exercise Your your Library ® 10 Services for Grad Students

Exercise Your your Library ® 11 Services for Grad Students

Exercise Your your Library ® 12 Services for Grad Students

Exercise Your 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

Exercise Your your Library ® 14 Your Liaison Librarian

Exercise Your your Library ® 15 Your Liaison Librarian

Exercise Your your Library ® 16 Your Liaison Librarian

Exercise Your your Library ® 17 Your Library Account Books you have on loan –Borrow books for a term (unless recalled) Renew your books online – reminder sent near end of term Fines or other problems

Exercise Your your Library ® 18 Your Library Account

Exercise Your your Library ® 19 Your Library Account

Exercise Your your Library ® 20 Your Library Account

Exercise Your your Library ® 21 Your Library Account Online renewal

Exercise Your your Library ® 22 Any Questions?

Exercise Your 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

Exercise Your your Library ® 24 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 25 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 26 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 27 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 28 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 29 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 30 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 31 TRELLIS Submit button

Exercise Your your Library ® 32 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 33 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 34 TRELLIS

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

Exercise Your your Library ® 36 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 37 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 38 Any Questions?

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

Exercise Your your Library ® 40 Connect from Home

Exercise Your your Library ® 41 Connect from Home

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

Exercise Your 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

Exercise Your 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

Exercise Your your Library ® 45 Research Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® 46 Research Databases

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Exercise Your your Library ® 48 Research Databases

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Exercise Your your Library ® 51 Research Databases

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Exercise Your your Library ® 53 Research Databases

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Exercise Your your Library ® 55 Research Databases

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Exercise Your your Library ® 57 Research Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® 58 Research Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® 59 Research Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® 60 Research Databases

Exercise Your your Library ® 61 Any Questions?

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

Exercise Your 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

Exercise Your your Library ® 64 TRELLIS

Exercise Your your Library ® 65 TUGdoc

Exercise Your your Library ® 66 TUGdoc

Exercise Your your Library ® 67 TUGdoc

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

Exercise Your your Library ® 69 CISTI Source & RACER

Exercise Your your Library ® 70 CISTI Source & RACER

Exercise Your your Library ® 71 CISTI Source

Exercise Your your Library ® 72 CISTI Source

Exercise Your your Library ® 73 CISTI Source

Exercise Your your Library ® 74 CISTI Source

Exercise Your your Library ® 75 CISTI Source

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

Exercise Your your Library ® 77 RACER

Exercise Your your Library ® 78 RACER

Exercise Your your Library ® 79 RACER

Exercise Your your Library ® 80 RACER

Exercise Your your Library ® 81 RACER

Exercise Your your Library ® 82 RACER

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

Exercise Your your Library ® 84 RACER

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

Exercise Your 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

Exercise Your your Library ® 87 Any Questions?

Exercise Your 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!

Exercise Your 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

Exercise Your your Library ® 90 RefWorks How do I access RefWorks? Click on the RefWorks link on the Library’s homepage (log in from anywhere using the Group Code given to you in the RefWorks message received when you register)

Exercise Your your Library ® 91 RefWorks

Exercise Your your Library ® 92 RefWorks

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

Exercise Your your Library ® 94 “Ask a Librarian”

Exercise Your your Library ® 95 “Ask a Librarian”

Exercise Your your Library ® 96 Any Questions?

Exercise Your your Library ® 97 Need more information? Contact your Liaison Librarian Attend another Library instruction session ( –Smart Searching Techniques –Find Journal Articles Fast –TRELLIS –RefWorks –Etc.

Exercise Your your Library ® 98 THANK YOU!