QM School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science New Electronic Engineering undergraduates K

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QM School of Electronic Engineering and Computer
ScienceNew Electronic Engineeringundergraduates
Kathy Abbott, Subject Librarian

• Introductory lecture on how to find information
• Your questions to ask a librarian on Library
  web page
• Lots of information on the web and in the printed
  information guides
• Please file your printed information guides for
  future use (09/2008)

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Library Reception Team
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Help Desk on Main Library Ground Floor
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Up the stairs to the Main Library First Floor
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Information guides on the web

• Start from Electronic Engineering student web
  page www.student.elec.qmul.ac.uk
• EE info link
• See the QM Information Guides and information
  skills training link
• Also see this link for this PowerPoint
  presentation, as a reminder/refresher

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Group Study space

• The Hive, above the café called ground
• open 8 am - 8 pm, Monday to Friday
• If you need to discuss your work with your
  colleagues in the Main Library, use
• The Quiet Zone on the Ground Floor
• Group Study Room 2 on the 2nd floor book with
  the Library Reception Team (8 seats) (not
  available for 4 weeks)

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Group study in the Hive
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The Library study environment

• The areas by the books on the Main Library 1st
  and 2nd floors are SILENT STUDY ZONES
• You may to tell anyone nearby who is disturbing
  you to be quiet. If the noise continues, ask a
  member of Library staff to speak to the noisy
  people

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Always keep your personal belongings with you

• Everywhere in London, thieves operate
• Strangers have entered the Library, and have
  stolen handbags left on the floor by chairs, and
  wallets left in jackets on the back of chairs,
  while the student is sitting concentrating on
  their work
• Keep your personal belongings close to you, on
  your body or in your sight

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• Always have your Student/Library card with you
• Switch off your mobile phones in Silent Study
  Zones!

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To pay for photocopying

• Copy charges A4, 4p A3, 8p
• 12 copiers at Main Library 1 colour copier
• Change machines on Ground Floor they change
  notes into 1 coins
• Use the grey revaluation kiosks to top up your
  credit balance
• Copiers will do reductions, enlargements, and
  double sided copying
• Show the barcode on your Student card to the
  barcode scanner on each copier

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To Ground Floor photocopiers, change machines and
revaluation kiosk
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Revaluation kiosk to add credit for photocopying
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To pay for printing on Computing Services Student
Service

• You receive an initial free allocation of 100
  pages
• To top up your print credit, purchase scratch
  cards
• Available from vending machines at Main Library
  (1 5 cards)
• Enter your details the scratch card number on
  the Computing Services print credit top-up web
  page
• The web page can be accessed from Library
  catalogue terminals, QM Student Service
  computers, and Computing Services web pages
• http//quota.stu.qmul.ac.uk/cgi-bin/balance/acbala
  nce.pl
• You have a separate quota to print in Electronic
  Engineering labs

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Scratch card vending machines
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The Library catalogue

• Use dedicated kiosk workstations in the Library
• Or from anywhere in the world, access the Web
• http//www.student.elec.qmul.ac.uk/
• Library homepage
• Click library catalogue
• Click Main Library catalogue

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If you cannot obtain the books you need, or the
Hold queue is too long, PLEASEuse Ask a
Librarian. We will try to buy the books or more
copies of the booksSearch for a book with the
author STALLINGSand the titleDATA AND COMPUTER
COMMUNICATIONS
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QA76.5 is the classmark, the place where we look
on the shelvesSTA is the 3-letter shelving
code United States Library of
Congressclassification scheme
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T books
QA books
Main Library First Floor
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How to borrow a book from the Library

• Find it on the ordinary shelves on the First (or
  Second) Floor
• Use the Self Issue machine, or
• Go to the Issue Counter on the Ground Floor
• Show your Student/Library card so that the staff
  can see your photo and can scan the barcode with
  the lightpen
• Open the book so the barcode can be scanned
• Say Please may I borrow this book?

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Self issue machine, near Library Reception
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Obtaining a Short Loan Collection copy

• Note the author, title and classmark
• Go to the Issue Counter on the Ground Floor
• Ask for the book by the author, title and
  classmark (write it on a piece of paper if you
  like)
• One day loan, or over the weekend

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Ground Floor Issue Counter
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Booking an SLC copy in advance

• You can book a copy of a book kept in the Short
  Loan Collection in advance, for the day you want
  to borrow it
• Find the book in the Library catalogue
• Use Book SLC Loan
• Then you can plan your work in advance

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Returning a Short Loan Collection copy

• Return the book to the Issue Counter, and make
  sure it is properly discharged from your name
• When the Issue Counter is closed, you may return
  books by posting them through the letter box to
  the left of the green doors
• The letter box is called the Out of hours book
  return

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Library Square, Main Library North side entrance
- you may return items here when the Issue
Counter is closed
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Out- of-hours book return
Library Square, Main Library North side entrance
- you may return items here when the Issue
Counter is closed
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Short Loan link, at top of screen

• Short Loan Collection by course code and course
  name
• Key ELE and click Course code to see courses for
  Electronic Engineering
• Not all recommended textbooks have a copy in the
  SLC
• If you think a copy of a book should be in the
  SLC and it is not, please use Ask a Librarian
• If you think that the Library does not have
  enough copies of a book, please use Ask a
  Librarian

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Placing a Hold on a book which is on loan to
other users

• If all items are On loan, all the Librarys
  copies of a book are out on loan to other users
• You must place a Hold click the Place Hold
  button
• Then the Library will send an e-mail to the
  people who have the book out on loan if it is
  an ordinary loan. One Week Loan copies are due
  back within one week in teaching period
• They must then return the book to the Library
  Issue Counter on the Ground Floor
• Then the Library will send you an e-mail, saying
  you can collect the copy from the Issue Counter
  on the Ground Floor
• If you wish to cancel a Hold, use Ask a
  Librarian or tell us at the Issue Counter

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Check loans, holds and bookings

• For your Library barcode , you need the number
  underneath the barcode on your Student/Library
  card
• For your PIN (4 figure Library security number),
  if you did not receive your PIN when you
  registered with Computing Services, please ask
  for it at the Issue Counter on the Ground Floor

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What to do when you cannot find a copy of a book
you need on the shelves of the Library. Sometimes,
the Library catalogue says that a copy of a
book is Available for Loan, but when you look on
the shelves, you cannot find the copy. Someone
may be looking at it in the Library PLEASE
DONT GIVE UP! FILL IN A GREEN MISSING ITEM
RESERVATION CARD AND HAND THE CARD IN AT THE
ISSUE COUNTER ON THE GROUND FLOOR
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Green Missing Item Reservation cards
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Green Missing Item Reservation cards
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Now we are going to look for a book by the
title. Someone has told me that I should look
for a book called Encyclopedia of electronic
circuits (Science Reference example)
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Looking for books in the Library catalogue

• Weve looked for a book when we know the author
  and the title
• Weve looked for a book using the title
• But how do we find books on a particular subject?
• We can look at the list of useful classmarks at
  the back of your First Library Guide
• OR

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Looking for books in the Library catalogue

• We can try Guided Search
• Words or phrase (do not use Subject, it only
  searches for US Subject Headings)
• search for Java program

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QA74.2.JAVis the classmarkfor most of the
books about Java programming languageYou can
LIMIT SEARCH, and sort byNew to Old, so the most
recent books are first
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Now were going to look for another subject
writing reports

• Our catalogue isnt clever
• You have to think of alternative keywords
• different keywords to describe the same subject
  IP, internet protocol(s)
• monitor, VDU(s), Visual display unit(s), screen
• singular and plural words network, networks,
  networking

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If you search for more than one keyword, the
catalogue assumes the Boolean logic AND between
the wordsIt assumes you want BOTH keywords
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righthand truncation

• You can use a symbol at the right hand end
  of a word
• to stand for no characters, or any number of
  characters
• So if you search for writ report, and click
  Search, the Library catalogue searches for
• writing reports
• report writing
• how to write reports
• how to write a report
• etc

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• Now we know some classmarks.
• We can go and look on the shelves.
• Well only find the books no one wants!
• So to find all the books, including the ones on
  loan, we can search for the classmark in the
  Library catalogue
• Remember that not all the books on the same
  subject will be at the same classmark. You must
  look at Details for many records

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Library catalogue Self Service(1) Change PIN,
to a number you can remember more easily(2)
Check loans, holds and bookings. Cancel SLC
bookings(3) Renew books over the Internet or by
phone 6 times for One Week Loan copies and 3
times for Ordinary Loan copies ( extend the
loan, after the date it is Due back to the
Library), if no one else has placed a Hold,
before you need to carry the books into the
Library. Then, when maximum no. of self-service
renewals reached, at the Issue Counter, please
say Please may I renew this book?
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• When you have finished with a book, return it by
  the date stamped inside, or the date you renewed
  it to over the Internet or by phone (please write
  this date on the date label inside the book)
• Bring it to the Library Issue Counter and say
  Please may I return this book?
• Wait until the light pen is waved over the
  barcode and listen for the beep!

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Useful book for ELE103 Telecommunications and
Internet Fundamentals

• Freeman Reference manual for telecommunications
  engineering
• The Library has the print version, and we also
  have the full text online
• check the Library catalogue

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Now we are going to look for periodicals(also
called journals or magazines)in the Electronic
journals list Electronics worldIEEE
communications magazineIf its not there, next
trythe Library catalogue, search periodical
title
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IELIEEE/IET Electronic Library

• The full text of all periodicals, conferences and
  standards since 1988 (and some earlier years too)
  of
• Institution of Engineering and Technology (was
  Institution of Electrical Engineers) (IET, UK
  based, but international)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  (IEEE, US based, but international)
• A fantastic resource, on the Web. It costs
  53,000 a year

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Athens authentication and authorisation scheme
for some information sources

• National registration scheme
• Some database hosts and publishers do not require
  any username (they check IP address of
  workstation) but you can only access from a
  campus workstation. You can achieve this at
  present off campus using Electronic Engineerings
  VPN, or SSH.
• Some services require an Athens username and
  password. You can access off campus
• Follow the instructions on the Athens usernames
  link. You need your Computing Services
  Student/Teaching Service username.

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Electronic EngineeringNew undergraduates
Introduction to Finding Information September
2008 This PowerPoint on the web on the Finding
Information ..Electronic Engineering web
page Comments and feedback are always
welcome k.j.abbott_at_qmul.ac.uk elec1.ppt 19 Sept
2008