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Get the best from the Library week @Pop-up Library

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IFAll next week, 27th-31st October, the afternoon Pop-up Library sessions are being taken over by the Library Academic Support team for Get the Best from the Library Week.

Get the Best from the Library Week is all about helping you find out more about how the Library can work for you at the University of Edinburgh. So why not pop up and meet us at the 1st floor, Main Library between 2-4pm every day next week.

During the Get the Best from the Library Week you can:

  • Discover the full range of information resources available to you
  • Find out about new resources purchased recently
  • Get one-to-one support from a library specialist in your subject area

The Library Academic Support team provides support to staff and students for all matters relating to library services, so no matter what your question is, we aim to help.

You can find out what subject areas are being covered each afternoon from the Get the Best from the Library Week timetable.

Hope to see you there!

Brought to you by the Library Academic Support Team.

Questions, questions, questions plus answers (and lollies) at Resources Plus.

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man with booksQ. Do you know how to request a book (RAB) to be bought for the library?
A. We can show you.

Q. Do you know how to get hold of items that we do not hold in the library collection?
A. We can show you how to use the Inter Library Loans (ILL) service.

Q. Is there a journal or database you think the library should subscribe to?
A. We’ll tell you how you can contact your Academic Support Librarian.

 

We’ll reveal all this and more at our next Resources Plus pop-up library session on Tuesday 21st October from 2 till 4 on the 1st floor of the Main library.

Margaret Redpath
Main Library Helpdesk

 

 

 

Finding newspaper content online

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By Charles Henry Alston, 1907-1977, Artist (NARA record: 3569253) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

By Charles Henry Alston, 1907-1977, Artist (NARA record: 3569253) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

  • Want to get access to a full-text newspaper article when the newspaper website wants you to pay?
  • Want to find out how you can search for newspaper articles about a particular event or story, either historic or current?
  • Need to compare how different newspapers are covering a story?

Come along to our Pop-up Library session on Friday 26th September 2014 and find out how you can do all of this and more.

We’ll be on the 1st floor of the Main Library 2-4pm to answer any queries about newspaper searching or show you how to find, access and use the databases and resources the Library has access to that will allow you to search newspapers and get full-text.

So pop up and see us!

Academic Support Librarians

Library Pop – Get Library Smart!

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Library-Pop-Bottle_White_bl smallCome and meet members of the Library Academic Support team at the Pop up Library at 11am on Tuesday 8 September and find out more about the new Get Library Smart information skills resource. Newly developed from materials written for students by the Library Academic Support Team, this resource aims to help everyone at the University of Edinburgh get the best from the Library.  As well as a toolkit to help you  get your hands on the library materials you need, you’ll find step by step guides through the library experience of searching, discovering and managing  information. What’s more, we’ll regularly be delivering bite-sized chunks in blog form to answer key questions and signpost you to what’s relevant for your subject. http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/infoskills/

Christine Love-Rodgers, Library Academic Support Team