Finding and Using Education Resources

1. Finding and Using Education Resources Thursday 10 September 2009 Susan Lewis s.e.lewis@leeds.ac.uk Faculty Team Librarian (Education)

2. Today's programme - • Finding books and journals for your course • Library Home Page - services and resources • Finding readings for yourself in • books in the Library • databases - searching BEI

3. Leeds University Library - • has 2.75 million books & other items • in print and electronic (web) • on 6 sites You will use • Edward Boyle Library • Brotherton Library ASK FOR HELP

4. The Brotherton Library - • Education books on BL West 3 • Main collections for other Arts and Social Science subjects • Education print journals • Research material

5. The Edward Boyle Library - • extra copies of textbooks on reading lists • Reference books on Level 12 • 7 day loan books on Level 9 • High Demand Collection on Level 9, for 3 day or 4 hour loan • Science & Engineering Main Collections

6. Activity 1 • Login to the Portal • Click on the Computing & Libraries tab • Go to the VLE: module area EDUC5830

7. Worksheet Q1 Finding a book on a module reading list

8. Use the Catalogue to – • search for a book or journal • reserve books already on loan • view your Library record • renew your books • link to e-journals and e-books

9. Finding a journal article - Moss, J, Deppeler, J, Astley, L, and Pattison, K. Student researchers in the middle: using visual images to make sense of inclusive education. In: Journal of Research in Special Education Needs (JORSEN) 2007, vol 7 (1), p 46-54

10. Worksheet Q2: Finding the text of an online journal article Webb, R., Greco, V., Sloper, P and Beecham, J. Key workers and schools: meeting the needs of children and young people with disabilities. In European Journal of Special Needs Education, vol 23 (3), 2008, pp 189 – 205.

11. the Library Home Page - • information about resources • information about the Library

12. Worksheet Q3 - Q4 • Question 3: the Index • Question 4: Subject page for Education

13. Finding readings for myself - Where shall I look? • Library Catalogue • web sites • published bibliographies aka databases

14. Library catalogue for whole books and whole journals, searching at title level • keyword search • subject headings • classmarks

15. Boolean logic ANDto combine different concepts ORfor alternative keywords NOTto exclude

16. Worksheet Q5 - Q6 • Question 5: subject searching • Question 6: subject searching for journals

17. On the Library Home Page, go to the Library’s Subject resources for Education Look under Subject specific resources click on Databases click on Websites How to find electronic resources for Education?

18. Database = Bibliographic Database a bibliography – • finds references to journal articles etc • complements the Library Catalogue by listing the contents of journals and other collections of papers • provides references - some also link to full text • searchable by subject, author, publication date, journal, language, etc eg British Education Index, ERIC, Australian Education Index, ASSIA, Sociological Abstracts, LLBA, Web of Science, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, ...etc

19. List of databases for Education • Subject resources for Education - Subject specific resources - click on Databases: list with descriptions • Look too at Subject resources for related subjects

20. a search on British Education Index (BEI) special educational needs and coordinators (Workbook Q7)

21. more on finding readings for yourself - see you in January!