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Welcome to the University Library

Welcome to the University Library. Emma Coonan Research Skills Librarian, Cambridge University Library. Orientation. This presentation should help you: Find your way around the UL building Learn about the catalogues and classmark system for our printed resources

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Welcome to the University Library

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  1. Welcome to the University Library Emma Coonan Research Skills Librarian, Cambridge University Library

  2. Orientation This presentation should help you: • Find your way around the UL building • Learn about the catalogues and classmark system for our printed resources • Find out about our other facilities and services

  3. About us • Major research collection: c.8m items • National, Legal Deposit collection and academic library • Single-copy collection • Part of Cambridge library network: college, departmental, faculty libraries • Some idiosyncrasies!

  4. Catalogues • Newton online catalogue: 5 million items – all academic material, plus everything from 1977 onwards • Supplementary catalogues: non-academic material 1800-1977 – ongoing re-cataloguing project • Specialist Reading Room catalogues • Start with www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton

  5. Finding your way around Morison Room

  6. Open shelf and closed access material Open Access: over 2m items depends on physical format and content arranged by size Closed Stacks: about 5.5m items specialist, rare, fragile or valuable holdings security and conservation

  7. Open shelf material • Broadly classified by subject • Distributed across 23 floors of the Library

  8. Criminology classmarks • Criminology (general): 236 – South Wing 6 • Psychology: 196 – South Wing 4 • Law: 250 onwards – South Front 2 Our major holdings in Law are housed in the Squire Law Library (Sidgwick Site)

  9. Floor layout Looking for a Periodical in the Book section (or vice versa) is the most common reason for not finding what you want!

  10. Size matters • We arrange open shelf material according to size to make as much as possible open-access • Books on each floor are grouped in blocks according to their ‘size letter’: a (very big), b (big), c (standard), or d (small) • So 200-250.a precedes 200-250.b, which is followed by 200-250.c, and 200-250.d comes at the end

  11. Mind the gap The catalogue showed ‘Available’ but the book is not on the shelf! It might be: • In process of being reshelved • Being read, or reserved, in any of 900 seats in 7 reading rooms, 23 open floors, 2 photocopying rooms …

  12. Solutions • Find a different edition in the UL’s collection • Search for another copy in a Cambridge library • Check to see if there’s an eBook version • Keep an eye on the catalogue and recall the book if borrowed

  13. Ordering closed-stack items • Items in the closed stacks have to be ordered • Fetch time is 30-120 mins – sometimes less • All reading rooms have order slips (not interchangeable between rooms) • West Room and Reading Room material can also be ordered via the Newton catalogue: save time by ordering before you come in

  14. Ordering closed-stack items Books fetched to the West Room must be read there - books fetched to the Reading Room may be borrowed!

  15. Borrowing Open-shelf material (including bound periodicals) and items fetched to the Reading Room may be borrowed • Take your books to the Entrance Hall to borrow • You can have 10 items for 8 weeks • Renew online (via Newton) once • You can return books by post (best to register them)

  16. IT services • Digital Resources Area: 64 online PCs with Word, Access, Excel etc. • Registration required (one-off) • Printing in the DRA @ 10p/sheet • Wireless available in Reading Rooms and Tea Room (with Raven password)

  17. IT services

  18. Other services Photocopying: • Self-service (requires DRA account and credit) • Imaging Services: advice and staffed service Inter-Library Loans (Commonwealth Room): • £3 charge to university members - pay in advance in person Tea Room: • Meals, snacks, hot and cold drinks • No books!

  19. Regulations • Please leave bags in locker room (£1 coin) • Please keep food or drink, including bottled water, for the Tea Room or courtyards • Mobile phones OK on silent mode. Please don’t talk! (except in Tea Room and courtyards) • Please don’t use scanners, cameras, MP3 players • Never mark a book: fine + replacement cost • Overdue charges - no upper limit

  20. Research Skills Programme At www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Courses/you can … • Find our timetable of subject-based sessions • Book for hands-on information skills classes • Request one-to-one training • Download these slides and other handouts E-mail us at research-skills@lib.cam.ac.uk

  21. Thanks for coming! Please let us know what you think … Hand in your completed evaluation forms at the Tea Room to receive a free cup of tea or coffee

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