Tallinn University of Technology LIBRARY Overview of library services Katri Mägi TUT Library Information Services Department TUT Orientation Days Jan, 25 th 2013

General Introduction

Opening hours Mo-Fri Sat Last Friday of a month is aclean-up day!

1 st Floor Main entrance Wardrobe Lockers Self Check-In Bindery TUT Museum TUT Press House Cafe

2 nd Floor Entrance to library services area User registration Service Centre Help Desk Self Check-out Computer Lab Books and Journals on Economics and Social Sciences European Documentation Centre

3 rd Floor Service Desk Self Check-out Individual and Group Study Rooms Books and Journals on Natural and Exact Sciences Textbooks

4 th Floor Service Desk Individual and Group Study Rooms Books and Journals on Engineering, Technology and Information Technology A Quiet Study Area

Service Desk Group Study Rooms Books and Journals on Humanities Newspapers Map Collection 5 th Floor

User registration At the Information Desk Library card / Estonian ID-card / TRP-card To obtain the library card you need: - fill out the registration form - photo 2x3 cm - 1,30 Registration with Estonian ID-card is free of charge.

Borrowing At any service desk Self Check-out on 2 nd and 3 rd floor Open stack – pick a book Storage – fill out a call slip Up to 25 items at a time!

Loan Periods Generally 30 days Books with yellow spot – 14 days Books with blue spot – 7 days Coursebooks on 3 rd floor – 90 days Coursebooks with red stripe on spine – 30 days Books with red spot and Journals – for in- library use only

Renewals at library service desks by by phone yourself by using My ESTER

Reservations at any service desk up to 10 reservations at the same time you will be noticed by phone pick up from the service centre on 2 nd floor

Printing and copying Self-service on 2 nd, 3 rd and 4 th Floor You need to open a printing account Acquire more information from the: library webpage For Students user manuals next to the devices Helpdesk Copying as instant service – contact the librarian on the 5 th floor!

Scanning Instant service: –Mon - Fri 9: :00 placing orders on the 5 th floor –document size up to A2 –black-and-white only –OCR –DOC, RTF, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG –USB, CD, DVD, Self-service: –on every floor –free of charge –document size up to A4 –PDF, TIFF, JPEG, BMP –USB, CD, DVD, –On-Screen Manual

Computers and Internet Computer Lab on 2 nd Floor Computer terminals on every Floor WiFi area InfoKiosks Estonian e-catalogue ESTER Open Stack Guide Study Rooms reservations

Study Rooms 6 Group Study Rooms on 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th Floor: –all reservable online 26 Individual Study Rooms : –8 rooms on 3 rd Floor reservable online –18 rooms on 4 th Floor for walk-in use Online reservation: –on librarys webpage –at the InfoKiosks

Library webpage:

Databases also by remote access through VPN portal create TUT Password in Studies Information System (ÕIS)

Estonian e-catalogue ESTER

My ESTER You can: view your checked-out items renew your due dates view/cancel book reservations view your reading history view your overdue fines change your contact information

How to create account in My ESTER Name Username: –library card barcode number or –ID-card number with prefix t Password: –create yourself

How to find a book from Open Stack Click here

Shelf number Subject names and numbers

Call- number

Library Tours !!! Jan, 28 th - Feb, 1 st Please register to Library Tours at the Information Desk!

See you in Library!