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SUPPORTING YOUR TEACHING SUPPORTING YOUR STUDENTS’ LEARNING
SUPPORTING YOUR RESEARCH
USING THE LIBRARY FROM YOUR DESKTOP
2012-13
The University Library at UCA Rochester is a spacious and comfortable environment with up to date resources to support learning and research. Our stock reflects the range of courses offered on campus. You can also access and borrow the stock of the other University campus libraries at Canterbury, Maidstone, Epsom and Farnham.
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Our resources include:
Facilities include:
an extensive collection of subject specific and general books for loan and reference
an online catalogue for searching the book and DVD collections of the 5 libraries and placing reservations online
a wide range of print and online periodicals, magazines and newspapers OPENING HOURS TERM TIME MON-THURS 8.30 – 20.00 FRIDAY 8.30 – 17.30 VACATION MON-FRI 9.00 – 17.00
eStream, our system for digitally recording television and radio broadcasts for viewing on or off-campus 24/7 www.estream.ucreative.ac.uk off-air TV recordings on DVD (in the process of being transferred to eStream), and commerciallyproduced DVDs for loan
an IT Centre with PCs and Macs for internet, MS Office, and Adobe Creative Suite access
Ebrary, giving you access to over 40,000 e-book titles accessible on and off-campus
self-service photocopying and printing
CONTACTING US
QUICK CONTACT
Librarians: general e-mail: librariansrochester@ucreative.ac.uk
Main Library desk:
Richenda Gwilt (Art, Design & Architecture) rgwilt@ucreative.ac.uk
www.ucreative.ac.uk/richenda
Tel: 01634 888734 or ext. 8734
Lucy Hannaford (FE) lhannaford@ucreative.ac.uk
e-mail: libraryroch @ucreative.ac.uk
Nick Turner (Photography, Graphic Design & PGCert) nturner@ucreative.ac.uk www.ucreative.ac.uk/nick
Library Manager: Ian Badger e-mail: ibadger @ucreative.ac.uk Tel: 01227 817405 (ext. 7405)
www.ucreative.ac.uk/lucy
Georgia Wyver (Fashion, Theatre & Film, CGArts & Animation, MBA & MA) gwyver@ucreative.ac.uk www.ucreative.ac.uk/georgia Study advisors: www.ucreative.ac.uk/studyadvice Tracey Ashmore (Study Advisor: HE) 01634 888634 tashmore@ucreative.ac.uk Lucy Panesar (Study Advisor: FE) lpanesar@ucreative.ac.uk
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BORROWING FROM THE LIBRARY A library account is set up when you start your job - there is no need to register. Your staff ID card is also your Library card: please bring it with you whenever you use the Library. You can borrow 30 items at any one time. One-week loan books are loaned to staff for 2 weeks, three-week loan books for 4 weeks, and DVDs and videos for 7 days. SUPPORTING YOUR TEACHING Course Liaison A qualified Librarian is assigned to each course, and we seek to promote and maintain effective liaison between teaching staff and the library by attending course team meetings and, where appropriate, project/essay briefings. We provide quality services that complement learning and teaching across the University.
Students participating in their and currency: we can advise on the Library induction, Sept 2011 availability of new editions or eversions. We offer a digitization service, so that pdfs of eligible materials can be created and made accessible to all via myUCA, and it is also possible to link directly to specific programmes or films on eStream (see previous page). Direct links to your course reading list material can also be created on the Library catalogue.
Library Services Supporting Teaching
We routinely scan alerting services, publishers' websites, and book reviews in newspapers and specialist journals in order to identify new resources for addition to our stock. Our aim is to develop, maintain and make accessible collections of learning materials in a wide range of formats that enhance the student experience. We will order print, electronic and DVD stock on your recommendation.
UCA’s reading list policies, which can be found under ‘Services for academic staff’ on the Library website, ensure we purchase sufficient copies of your essential and recommended reading list titles to meet student expectations. Supply us with your reading lists in plenty of time and we will check them for accuracy
You are welcome to come and talk to us (or phone or e-mail) at any time to discuss sessions for your students.
SUPPORTING STUDENT LEARNING As well as being responsible for course liaison and collection development, Librarians also plan and deliver information skills workshops, and provide specialist one-to-one research advice to students and staff.
signed to complement a project. We follow up these initial sessions by focusing on more detailed areas such as research techniques and information sources. We have found that the most successful sessions are those linked to studio-based Library Research Skills projects, cultural / contextual You can arrange information studies assignments and skills sessions to suit your course dissertation research. timetable or to complement a current project. Online information sources are We offer introductory sessions to important research tools and we students at the beginning of their offer hands-on sessions to assist course. This may include a short students to develop effective tour and presentation on library search strategies and a critical services, but may also be deapproach to information retrieved.
Study Advice Service Study Advisors deliver lectures and workshops to enable the development of a critical and reflective approach and support effective research, academic writing and referencing, notetaking, idea development, understanding and avoiding plagiarism, and time management skills. We also offer one to one tutorials to students to help them to get the most out of their course and reach their full potential.
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SUPPORTING YOUR RESEARCH Locating Research Information We subscribe to online resources which enable you to search for articles in the journals, magazines and newspapers held across UCA and beyond. If you need access to something we don’t have in stock we can usually source it for you via our Document Supply service (see below). The following resources, and many more, are available online at www.ucreative.ac.uk/ eresources
Academic OneFile ArtBibliographies Modern Art Full Text Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals British Education Index and International ERIC
Mintel Oxygen Proquest Dissertations and Theses RIBA Library Catalogue
Design & Applied Arts Index
Vogue Archive
Film Indexes Online
WGSN – fashion collections and trend forecasting (on campus only)
InfoTrac Newspapers International Index to Performing Arts LSN Global
We also subscribe to Zetoc (an alerting service), Oxford Art Online and Oxford Reference.
ACCESSING E-RESOURCES You can access our library catalogue, e-resources, and recommended websites via our library webpage: www.ucreative.ac.uk/library or via the Library tab in myUCA. From our home page you can follow links to the catalogues of the world’s major research libraries. E-resources can be accessed off-campus, using your Athens username and password. Ask at the library desk or e-mail us for your login details: librariansrochester@ucreative.ac.uk Sessional Staff Your line manager will need to contact Computer Services to give you access to the college network when on campus.
FURTHER ACCESS TO RESEARCH INFORMATION
You can use our Document Supply service to source books and articles that are not held by UCA libraries. This quick and efficient service is operated by the British Library and other external partners, and allows us to request
material held in libraries in the UK and around the world. World wide searches may, of course, take time so it’s worth placing requests for materials well in advance of any research deadlines.
For a personal introduction to any of the e-resources contact your Librarian
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USING THE LIBRARY FROM YOUR DESKTOP For desktop library access go to www.ucreative.ac.uk/library or go to the Library tab in myUCA, where you’ll find a library catalogue search box. Here you can search the print, e-book and DVD stock of all five UCA campus libraries by keyword, title, or author.
ACCESSING YOUR LIBRARY ACCOUNT You can access your personal record details by logging in to the catalogue using your UCA ID card number and your PIN Click on Log in at the top of the screen, and select from these options: Personal information – where you can view your contact details, and change your PIN at any time should you wish to. My account – to see your current checkouts, with an option for renewing, details of any holds you have placed, and a list of any outstanding fines NB: certain items cannot be renewed: Items which currently have fines Items with current reservations Items which have already been renewed four times MAKING RESERVATIONS You can reserve items that are on loan or held at other campus libraries To do this simply conduct your search while logged-in. Looking at the item details for the title you wish to reserve, click on ‘place hold’ on the right of the screen. You can specify the campus Library at which you’d like to collect your reservation. We’ll email you to let you know when its ready, and we’ll keep it for you for ten days.
To make Document Supply requests, or suggestions for purchase click on ‘login to request material’, enter your ID number and PIN, then select ‘I need material’. There you can make a stock recommendation or place Document Supply requests for books and articles that are not held by UCA Libraries.
YOUR LOGIN DETAILS: Your Library PIN:
Your Athens login details:
All photos in this guide were taken by FE students at Rochester in 2009 and 2011