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Library Introduction
• Finding what you want to read in the library
• Getting what the Library doesn’t have
Rowena Stewart, Academic Support Librarian
[email protected]
Tel: 0131 650 5207
Which Library holds your print Collections?
The Main Library holds the print collections for
Health in Social Science and Medicine (plus
most of the Arts and Humanities
Collections).
Western General and RIE have libraries too.
Intra-library loans for material in other sites
There are department libraries, eg
Psychology & Philosophy Library
in the Psychology Building (7
George Square)
Finding what you want in the Library
When you have a reference (or citation) for what you want to read,
use:
Library Catalogue
 print and electronic resources
 renew books on loan
Electronic Journal webpages
 Electronic journals only
 slightly more up to date than the library catalogue
Which bits of a reference to use?
• Burnard, P. (2011) Nursing research in action:
developing basic skills (3rd ed)
Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan.
• Peters, L. and Sellick, K.(2006) Quality of life of
cancer patients receiving inpatient and homebased palliative care, Journal of Advanced
Nursing, 53(5): 524-33.
Which Library?
Library Catalogue
 print journals and (online or print) books
 renew books on loan
On the Library homepage at
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/library
Library tab on MyEd
Which bits of a reference to use?
Book - use title or author.
Journal article - use the journal name.
• Don’t type in The or An etc from the beginning of a book or journal title
Which Library?
Borrowing Books
25 books (including up to 3 Reserve books)
Standard loan = 4 weeks.
Short loan = 1 week
Reserve books = up to 3 hours or overnight
Self-issue and self-return
But please ask the Helpdesk
staff if you have questions etc.
Renewing Books
Most books (excluding Reserve books) may be renewed
up to 5 times
Can’t renew if: recalled, fines too high or
on/after due date
http://catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk/vwebv/login
Fines for overdue books:
Borrowing Books
20p per day for standard books / 50p per day for short loan books
£1 per day for overdue recalled books
2p per minute for overdue reserve books)
5 days grace for overdue standard loan books [on day 6, fine is added at cost of 6 days overdue]
no grace period for overdue recalled books
Borrowed books you want (borrower has week at most): Request Charged or Annexe Item
Online Collection
• Ebooks are in the library catalogue
 [electronic resource] in the title means you can read online
• Many thousands of journals online
 Not always bought from every available host site
 Not always bought for access from volume 1 to now
• Check electronic journals pages – not the default tab
http://sfxhostedeu.exlibrisgroup.com/Edinburgh/az
Ejournals
From the ejournals page or the
library catalogue journal record,
check what years the different
links/websites give you.
Ebooks
Use the link “Click here for full text”
Off-campus access to online collection
Through EASE (authentication) / MyEd (portal)
VPN – access to University network + wireless access - www.ed.ac.uk/is/vpn
Eduroam – JANET Roaming Service : secure internet access from
eduroam-enabled institution around the world - www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless/jrs
Use eduroam not central to connect to “normal” campus network
www.ed.ac.uk/is/wireless
Get Connected
Inter-Library Loan (I.L.L.) for what we don’t have
5 free per year
• then £5 per request received
• 2 renewals which are done via Helpdesk or I.L.L. staff.
More information: http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/inter-library
ILLiad form: http://illiad.lib.ed.ac.uk/illiad/
“Intra-library loan” - Get material from other UoEdinburgh libraries sent to KB
• same form
• FREE
Visiting/Borrowing from other Libraries:
www.ed.ac.uk/is/inter-library >Access to other libraries
Plus:
• NHS Knowledge Network - http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/
• RCN and/or other professional bodies and their resources
Suggest the Library buys Something
Books:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/RAB
Searcher – the default tab
Library catalogue plus databases etc.
Good for finding academic literature for essays and reports.
Default limit set to what you can read now.
Where to find (out about) databases
Library catalogue and e-journal pages tell you what journals we have, eg Journal of Advanced
Nursing, but not that, eg Shahoei et al’s article ‘Safe passage’: pregnant Iranian Kurdish
women’s choice of childbirth method in the October 2011 issue.
Searcher and more subject-specific abstracting and indexing
databases can help you find relevant academic articles., eg
CINAHL Plus
A-Z list and lists by subject
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-subjects
Printing and photocopying
paid via your Print account which you can
top up via the machines, asking library staff
and via MyEd’s Online Print Credit channel.
Printing via a web interface:
www.ed.ac.uk/is/everyoneprint
Connecting your laptop: follow the links from
Connecting to network printers
Printing – http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/printing
uCreate
provides multimedia and specialist IT facilities on a selfservice basis including printing posters.
Study spaces in the Libraries
There is a variety of study areas. Some can be
booked via the MyEd “Student Study Space”
channel but there are no bookable group study
rooms in the Main Library.
Group Study Spaces
Other places to study
in the “Central Area”
Main Library locker rental & daytime use lockers –
information about locker use or ask Helpdesk staff
Contacting Information Services
If you have a learning technology, IT or library enquiry, contact the IS Helpline:
Self-service portal: www.ed.ac.uk/is/selfservice
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 (0)131 651 5151
There is an IS Helpdesk in each of the IS managed libraries www.ed.ac.uk/is/library-locations
Help
• IS Skills Development open courses and
manuals – www.ed.ac.uk/is/skills
• ISiSkills – www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk
• uCreate – www.ed.ac.uk/is/ucreate
Help
I’m happy to take questions or see people/small groups individually
Rowena Stewart,
rm1406 JCMB, The King’s Buildings
Tel: 650 5207
e-mail: [email protected]
This presentation at www.ed.ac.uk/is/subject-guides-nursing