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New Faculty & Grad Students: Library Orientation Library Instruction Fall 2007
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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
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3 Library Homepage (www.lib.uwaterloo.ca)www.lib.uwaterloo.ca
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4 Your watcard Doe, Jane Your Barcode 2118700xxxxxxx
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5 Libraries & Hours
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9 Always updated for today!
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10 Services for Grad Students
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11 Services for Grad Students
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12 Services for Grad Students
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13 Services for Grad Students
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14 Your Liaison Librarian Subject specialist –Subject Guides Help with Library services & resources Literature research assistance Personal or group consultations Book purchase requests accepted
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15 Your Liaison Librarian
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16 Your Liaison Librarian
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17 Who is Your Liaison Librarian
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18 Your Library Account Books you have on loan –Borrow books for a term (unless recalled) Renew your books online –E-mail reminder sent near end of term Fines or other problems Holds, Recalls, Document Delivery
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19 Your Library Account
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20 Your Library Account
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21 Your Library Account
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22 TRELLIS
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23 Your Library Account Online renewal
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24 Any Questions? I need information about: remediation of oil spills
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25 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
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26 TRELLIS
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27 TRELLIS
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29 TRELLIS
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30 TRELLIS
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31 TRELLIS
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32 TRELLIS Submit button
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33 TRELLIS
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34 TRELLIS
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35 TRELLIS
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36 TRELLIS
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37 TRELLIS
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38 Any Questions?
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39 Connecting from Home Research Databases E-Journals Electronic Books E-Data
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40 Connect from Home
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41 Connect from Home www.lib.uwaterloo.ca. proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca
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42 Research Databases Find journal articles, conference papers on a topic Comprehensive, quick Includes abstract, link to full text article Import into your citation database
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43 Research Databases How to choose them: Dept. subject guide lists top choices Subject groups on Research Database page Updating frequency Multidisciplinary topic? Try several databases.
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44 Research Databases
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59 Research Databases
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60 Any Questions?
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61 Document Delivery Article from a journal in TRELLIS? –TUGdoc –“request item from TRELLIS” Not in TRELLIS? –CISTI Source 1993- Largely science and technology, but some arts and social sciences –RACER (InterLibrary Loan) All Ontario university libraries plus… –“request item not in TRELLIS”
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62 TUGdoc I need an article from volume 8... but it’s not online. I can request a copy!
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63 TRELLIS
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64 TUGdoc
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67 TUGdoc Automatically entered Fill in this part Select
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68 CISTI Source & RACER
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69 CISTI Source & RACER
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71 CISTI Source fgh76630 ● ● ● ● ● ●●
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75 RACER
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77 RACER “journal of environmental sciences”
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81 RACER Automatically entered Fill in this part
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82 RACER
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83 Can’t wait? (for TUGdoc/CISTI Source/RACER) Find the book/ article at another Ontario library Visit the library in person… –Register WatCard with their circulation desk –Photocopy article(s) –Borrow book(s) directly …return books at UW!
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84 Any Questions?
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85 RefWorks What is RefWorks? A personal database designed to: –Manage/organize citations –Create bibliographies –Help you write your term papers Accessible from anywhere!
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86 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 citations and the bibliography automatically generated using the Write-N-Cite module
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87 RefWorks How do I access RefWorks? Click on the RefWorks link on the Library’s homepage http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/ (log in from anywhere using the Group Code given to you in the RefWorks e-mail message received when you register)http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/
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88 RefWorks
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90 Link to e-copy of paper
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91 “Ask a Librarian” Your Liaison Librarian! Online Reference (Chat and MSN) E-mail Phone In person – info desk; office consult 6 ways to talk to us!
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92 “Ask a Librarian”
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93 “Ask a Librarian”
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94 Any Questions?
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95 Need more information? Contact your Liaison Librarian Attend another Library instruction session (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/index.html)http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/index.html –Smart Searching: TRELLIS, Journal Articles, and the Internet –Find Books and More! (TRELLIS) –RefWorks.....GIS....Keeping Current....Web 2.0...
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96 THANK YOU!
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