1. Library Research Clinic for HOD Graduate & Professional Students
Leslie Foutch, Librarian for HOD

2. Research Clinic Highlights
Basic Library Services
Off-campus access to e-resources (VUnet ID & e-password)
Research Guide for HOD
The VUfinder tool
Vanderbilt’s Library Catalog & key databases
My job as your liaison
Contacting me: phone, , instant chat, research consultations by appointment or just stop by my office (3rd floor, office #300)

3. Personalized assistance

4. Basic Library Services
Checking out books: 90 day loan period
Brightspace
Interlibrary loan
APA Citation Style and Zotero
Wireless access (SSID configuration)
Print drivers for Printing from Personal PC
Technology in the Library

5. Library Catalogs
Vanderbilt’s Library Catalog: Combines the print and digital material of the nine VU libraries.
WorldCat: Catalog of more than 125 million records from U.S. libraries and libraries around the world.

6. Google vs. Library Databases
In a library nutshell, the expert organization of content indexed within the library databases will save you time, less headaches and will provide you with the most relevant, appropriate, and authoritative results.
Google Scholar is simply a discovery tool for finding scholarly information.

7. Research Guide for HOD

8. So before the first research assignment is here and this happens….

9. Contact me. I am just an email away at:
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