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Welcome to the Library
ASDA
Adam Edwards and Adam Miller
Aim of session
• Things you need to know
• Things you should use
• Practice searching
Using the right source
Basic help
• Library and IT website:– http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/
• UniHelp: 020 8411 6060 (Passwords)
• Ask a Librarian (FAQs):
– http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/
• Middlesex Uni app• Ask the Adams!
Accessing resourcesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library
Access off site to electronic resources, reading lists and Library Catalogue
Library Subject GuidesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library > Library Subject Guides
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/plagiarismreferencing http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/wbl
Reading Lists
Summon
Practise thinking
The real thing
• Keywords
• Alternative keywords
• More specific keywords
• Related subjects
Your project exercise
Practice doing
• At home/work: – myUniHub > My Study > My Library
• Find Summon– Try a search, use refining tools – Save an article, create a reference
• Find LibGuides for– Work Based Learning– Referencing
• Find Reading Lists
But is it any good?
• Authority
• Relevance
• Intent
• Objectivity
• Currency
Evaluating information
But it’s not in the Library!
• Inter Library loans (and postal loans) http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/resources/ill/index.aspx
Keeping in touch
• Librarian Blog http://wbllibrarian.blogspot.co.uk/
• Library Facebook Middlesex University Library
• Library Twitter http://twitter.com/MDXLibrary