1. Help Wanted Library website: - Services page for basic borrowing information and opening hours - Guides and Online Help – Creative and Cultural Industries page Filmmaking & Screenwriting, Study Skills, Evaluating Websites… Moodle: - Library guides - UWS Referencing Guide under Quicklinks Subject Librarians Raewyn.riach@uws.ac.uk Jacqueline.boston@uws.ac.uk

2. Finding Information – what should you be looking for?  Books, print and electronic  DVDs  Newspaper articles  Journal articles  Internet sites

3. Books – print /electronic  Reading list books in UWS Library – search library catalogue www.uws.ac.uk/librarywww.uws.ac.uk/library  Reference books  Print books can be requested from other Campus Libraries, takes about 3 days  Return books to any Campus Library  eBooks require University network login for access

4. Reference Books  The Business of Entertainment 790.2 / SIC  Encyclopedia of Radio 384.54 / STE  Encyclopedia of Television 385.55 / NEW  Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film 070.18 / AIT

5. DVDs  Listed in Library catalogue by title and director  Red folder of title listings of DVDs – separate listing for documentaries  Ayr Campus Library - printed list next to DVD stands, section of music DVDs by title and artist  One week loan for DVDs

6. Journals Print Journals  Broadcast  Journal of Radio & Audio Media  Televisual Electronic Journals  Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television  Journal of British Cinema and Television  Media, Culture and Society  Screen  Studies in Documentary Film

7. Finding newspaper/journal articles by topic Use the databases on the Library website on the CCI Electronic Resources page. For example:  Taylor & Francis Journals  Newsbank (full text British newspaper articles)

8. Databases with film and sound clips  British Library Sounds  Independent Radio  Screen Online  All clips used need to be acknowledged and referenced.

9. Harvard Referencing  Whether you have been using books, journals or websites for your research, they will all need to be acknowledged and referenced using UWS Harvard.  Examples for how to reference all kinds of texts and images are available in the CoRE (Collection of Referencing Examples) available on Moodle.

10. To google or not to google?  Google actually only searches between 10-20% of Internet  Remaining 70% - 80% known as ‘Invisible Web’  Scroll through more than first screen of results  Use more than one search engine  Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search Exact phrase searching http://www.google.com/advanced_search

11. Evaluating Websites or why you shouldn’t reference Wikipedia Who is the intended audience of the website? Scope of the website? Are there political, ideological, cultural, religious or institutional biases? Authority / Authorship Are there other websites covering the same or similar subjects? Evaluating Websites – guidelines on Library website