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Welcome to the Library
Janice Hill, Oscail Librarian
Where is the Library?
Entering the Library Building
You will need
Name: Joe Bloggs
Student No: 123456789
Course: AZ1
Set your phone to silent
Opening Hours – Semester 1 & 2
Monday to Thursday
08:30 to 22:00
Friday
08:30 to 21:00
Saturday
09:30 to 17:00
What can I do in the Library?
• Find a comfortable place to work and study on your
own or in a group
17 Collaborative Study Rooms
• Borrow books, DVDs
• Use a library PC or your laptop
• Print, photocopy and scan
• Get help from Information Desk
and ISS Desk for all your IT quries
Library Website
24/7 access to
DCU online library
 Library Catalogue
 Journals and Databases
 Keep up to date with Library
News via our Blog
 Lots of information –
borrowing, printing, guides,
tutorials, policies
 Subject pages
 LETS tutorial
 Virtual Tour
Oscail Subject Page
Contact
details
Oscail Subject Page
• General
– LETS (Library E-Tutorial for Students); off campus access;
accessing other libraries
• Books
- using library catalogue / ebooks
• Journals
- finding journals / A-Z of journals list / newspapers
• Databases
- using databases / list of databases covering your subject area
• Websites
- selection of useful websites
Off Campus Access
• Library Catalogue
- look up books and ebooks
- renew and reserve books using My Account
• Collaborative Study Rooms
– booking through your student portal page
• Library databases and journals
- you will need to enter your network username and password
(issued by ISS when you register)
Journals and Databases
A-Z of journals
- a listing of all print and electronic journals
- use when you know the title of a journal
Journals and Databases
Databases
- allows you to easily search for journal articles using keywords
- some databases are full-text and others just abstracts.
link will bring you to the full-text in another
database if it is available
You can use
a single search
Other Databases -
to access most of the library databases from
Online Help and Support
• Subject Librarian
- email or phone Janice Hill
• Information Desk
- email or phone
• New Students page
- library videos
• Library Guides
• Library tutorials
- library tutorials
- all databases have help guides or tutorials
LETS tutorial
DCU Library E-tutorial for Students
Four modules to help you get the best from your library
Janice Hill
Contact details:
Phone: 700 8758
Email: [email protected]