1. Library Orientation EMLS 129R Winter 2017
Tony Tin, Librarian
Renison University College Library

2. Where can I Start? From Renison

3. Where can I start? To U Waterloo

4. What I need to know?

5. Undergraduate Student

6. Printing in the Library (Cash Only)
8 Desktop computers
Printing $0.10

7. uPrint Service http://uwaterloo.ca/uprint
Web-based Anytime, anywhere printing at Renison Library using your WatIAM credentials
Print Job

8. How to access Library Resources
from Home

9. How to access Library Resources

10. Library Account
My account: View a listing of your outstanding fines and fees due to the library. See the materials that are checked out and renew these items. See requests pending at the library and their status.
My list: save bibliographic records from various search results for later viewing, editing and printing in different formats
aMy searches:llows you to save up to 25 search queries
Search: Basic search finds records using keywords located anywhere in a record,

11. Library Account: Features
My account: fines and fees. See checked out and renew these items

12. Library Account: Feature
Search: finds records using keywords
Query: save your search queries
E-shelf: save bibliographic records from various search results

13. Subject Guide

14. A federated search tool one stop searching for every thing (BASIC)
How to find books, journal articles, library website and many others ..
A federated search tool – one stop searching for every thing, including book, journal article, video, e-book and etc
Books and media
Articles
Library web pages
Research Databases
Journal titles
More search options for "technology"
Research guides
Frequent library questions and answers
Google Scholar
UWSpace (Institutional Repository)
University of Waterloo search
A federated search tool
one stop searching for every thing
(BASIC)

15. More Search Options

16. Advanced Search options
Search: Searches everything, including books, articles, audios, videos and many others.
Books +: Searches physical resources (books) and E-books.
Articles+: Searches articles available through many of the Library’s electronic subscription

17. Narrow or Broaden your search results: Boolean can help
Boolean: Operator which links concepts within a search.
OR (to include at least one term / concept) – Broaden (trout OR salmon)
AND (to include all terms / concepts) – Narrow (fish AND food)
NOT (to exclude terms / concepts) – Narrow (trout NOT salmon)
Make sure you are using “UPPER CASE”
OR : A OR B: more result
A AND B A NOT B: fewer result

18. Examples: Advertisement More Results using “OR”
advertisement OR marketing 4,805,010 results
Fewer Results using “AND” advertisement AND online 20,679 results
Fewer Results using “NOT”
advertisement NOT marketing 1,557,627 results
Advertisement and marketing
For further Info:

19. More Tips:
Phrase Searching: look for two or more words together using “ “.
Instead of:
social media 1,882,099
Try:
“social media” 757,235 results
Truncation/Wildcards: eexpands a term to include all forms of the root word using *
Cultur* finds culture and cultural 3,596,083 results
Asterisk

20. Beyond Boolean: Faceted Searching
Search information organized according to a classification system such as peered reviewed, material Type, library location, date and Subject.
Attributes

21. Borrowing books: 3 steps

22. Returning books:
Loan term: books=Term Loan; journals=3 days; Reserves= 3 hrs.
Return at any designated library book return (N.B. Renison’s in hallway), except Reserves.

23. Research Databases (Journal articles)
3 different access points:
Primo Article+
Research Journal Database
Browse Research Databases by Title: (Proquest)
Browse Research Databases by Subject: (Science)
Find E-Journal Title (Entrepreneurship Research Journal )

24. What is a Peer reviewed article?
Articles evaluated by several researchers or subject specialist in the academic community prior to accepting it for publication. Also known as scholarly or refereed.

25. How to Write

26. How to cite your Resources?
Citation / Style Guides: provide access to different citation styles including APA, Chicago, MLA, and others.
Primo Citation: allow you to copy-and-paste formatted citations from search results.
Google Scholar Cites: allow you to copy-and-paste formatted citations from search results.
Refwork: Online bibliographic management program that allows users to create a personal database of references and generate bibliographies in a variety of formats (Group Code* = RWUWaterloo) 
Poverty
Wagner, Viqi, 1953-
Detroit : Greenhaven Press 2008

27. Ask US
FAQ
Online chat (various IM interfaces)—12 p.m. to 4 p.m., except weekends and holidays
Text
In person
Phone

28. Thank You! E-mail contact tony.tin@uwaterloo.ca amcgowan@uwaterloo.ca
Online tutorial:
Website:

29. Mobile Info Literacy challenge
Quizzes
NEOREADER APP Download: (