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WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Services for staff

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Using the Library What's available Borrowing from the Library Getting help Services for academic staff

using the library

In this section

• How to find us
• Accessibilty guidance
• Visiting us
• Finding books
• Using the library catalogue

Wish you were here!

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how to find us

The University Library is in the middle of the campus, situated in leafy Ravelin Park. The main entrance opens onto Cambridge Road. We take accessibility seriously and have partnered with AccessAble to provide up-to-date accessibility information.

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The University Library is centrally located:

• easily accessible from all teaching buildings
• next door to the Students' Union
• 5 minutes walk from Gunwharf Quays
• 2-5 minutes walk from St Pauls and Spinnaker sports centres and on the same site as the new Sports Centre

Full details about building accessibility, from parking to what to expect when you come through the door is available from the AccessAble website.

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WHAT's AVAILABLE

In this section

• Beyond books - the breadth of what the Library has to offer
• Subject pages
• The Discovery Service

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BEYOND BOOKS

The Library offers a wide variety of products and services that are useful whether you keeping up to date with current affairs or fashions!

Some resources that might interest you include:

• Online newspapers - including current and global news, and searchable historic news archives
• Print and online magazines
• Recorded television services
• Diverse film and video archives
• Image and sound resources

• Statistical and demographic data resources
• Company and market reports and sector analyses
• Historical, local, OS, and extensive digital maps
• Books and academic journals - in print and online

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Subjectpages

Your subject page(s) provide links to more powerful subject resources that go beyond the Discovery Service to find specialist subject information. For law, design and engineering your subject page should be your starting point for every search. You can also contact your Faculty Librarian through your subject pages, for those times when you need truly in-depth subject help.

Click here to visit the Subject pages

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using the library catalogue

You can use the Library catalogue to find books you can borrow and ebooks that you can read online. Any book can be reserved so that you can pick it up from the reservation collection point beside the Libary Café without hunting for it on the shelves.

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EBSCODISCOVERY SERVICE

The EBSCO Discovery Service finds books, ebooks and journal articles from most Library resources from a single simple search. It offers powerful tools to help you quickly to refine your searches and find the most useful high-quality scholarly evidence.

borrowing from THelibrary

In this section

• Borrowing books
• Renewing and reserving
• Returning books

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borrowing books

You can borrow books that you want to take away using the self-service kiosks in the Atrium. Leave any books you do not need to borrow on a book trolley for a member of staff to reshelve.

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We can post books to you, free of charge. You can then keep the book until your course ends or you receive an email from us informing you that someone else has requested the book, asking you to return it. You can post books back to us but we strongly recommend using a signed for postal service to do so, such as ParcelForce48.

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RENEWING AND RESERVING

Your books will renew themselves automatically. You can also use any ebook version available. You will be able to reserve books during term time using our Click & Collect service. We will email you when your book is available to collect from the collection point in the Atrium.

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RetuRNING BOOKS

You can return books one at a time using the self-service kiosks in the Atrium. If you are in a hurry, simply post books you no longer want in one of the returns drop-boxes in the Atrium and library staff will discharge them from your library account for you.

24/7 help andsupport

In this section

• 24/7 help
• Subject teams
• Library blog and social media

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Our friendly enquiry team and out-of-hours service are here to help you 24/7 every day of the year. Click on the online chat or question mark buttons on the library website to ask us anything library related. You can also book a librarian for a longer and more in-deoth face-to-face or online video chat. We can help you to:

• understand the range of eresources available
• use our eresources effectively
• find specific information
• use University referencing styles

Click here to contact the Library

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subjectteams

Your subject team, led by your Faculty Librarian(s), are the definitive experts in the information resources for their subject area and will be able to help you find the most obscure and complex information. You can find the contact details for your Subject Team on your subject page.

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liblog andsocial media

The Library blog offers tips, tricks, news, expert advice on everything from wellbeing and study skills to resource reviews and opinion pieces. Varied and fun, it is a great way to keep up to date with everything library and be introduced to new ideas. Follow us @uoplibrary

SERVICES FOR ACADEMIC STAFF

In this section

• Information literacy teaching
• Accessibility services
• Digitisation services
• Information literacy and research skills teaching
• Research support

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Your Library subject team can offer your students information literacy skills training tailored to their course, needs and level of study. We offer everything from a 10 minute welcome during induction week to lectures and half-day workshops for groups up to lecture theatre sized cohorts of students. Find out more about how your Library subject team can help teach your students information literacy Contact your Faculty Librarian to discuss what we can offer your students

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ditigisation services

The Library can digitise book chapters and journal and magazine articles and link the resulting pdf documents to online reading lists for entire cohorts to read under our Copyright Licensing Agency Higher Education Licence. All you need do is submit your request and your students will get a copyright compliant, high quality scan they can view, print or download linked directly from the reading list. Learn more about Library digitisation services

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If you or any of the students starting your course have difficulties using printed resources or have other information needs, the Library can make accessible, lawfully digitised copied of materials available in a variety of formats. The earlier that we know what additional support needs students who are confirmed on a course have the more likely we are to be able to put provisions in place for them when they arrive. Click here for more details about requesting resources in accessible formats.

accessibility services

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Information resources and the interfaces to Library databases are constantly changing or being updated. With so many other important things competing for your attention, it's easy to feel left behind. That's where your subject team can help! Your Faculty Librarian or Assistant Faculty Librarian can meet with you online over video chat or come to your office at a mutually convenient time and show you the resources we have to offer, demonstrate how resources work, help you optimise your information searching and offer advice on organising your search results for future reference, including demonstrating the use of the reference management software. Click here to find your Faculty Librarian's contact details on your subject page

RESEARCHSKILLS training

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WE're here to help

Hopefully, this whistlestop tour of Library services and facilities has given you some idea about how the Library can help you with your research and teaching and how we can help support and develop your students. Friendly Library staff are here to help you. You can chat with a librarian 24/7 and you can pop in and chat with a librarian in person between 11 am - 3 pm Mondays to Fridays. You can also email us at any time and we will get back to as soon as we can - often within a few minutes if it's during office hours. You can also email your Faculty Librarian directly. Click here for an overview of the ways you can get library help