Time to Book Library Skills Classes for 2008

TIME TO BOOK LIBRARY SKILLS CLASSES FOR 2008

For 2008 we'll be offering the following library skills sessions for undergraduate and postgraduate students. These can be modified to suit your students' needs.

It's our experience that students appear confident about their searching skills. However there are so many changes to our online databases and journals each year that we strongly advise your students to attend a session once a year so as to make the best use of library resources.

Please book as soon as you can as our Training Room booking slots fill up fast.

For undergraduate classes (50 minutes) please contact Ann Cox or Amanda Curnow in Information Services.

For postgraduate classes (1.5 hours) please contact Nicola McCarthy or Di Barnard in College Liaison Services.

Database searching skills

· principles of database searching

· scope and range of relevant journal article databases

· hands-on searching using a defined topic

Endnote referencing software

· what it is and how to use it

· hands-on training

Changes to Requesting in the Library catalogue

Changes to Requesting in the Library catalogue

Upgrade Period:

From 5 pm Tuesday 30th October to noon Wednesday 31st October you will be unable to make requests via the Library catalogue. During this time you will still be able to request items. Please contact us http://library.massey.ac.nz/learnit/needhelp/needhelp.htm


New Request Features

Your requests will instantly appear on your patron record.

You will have the ability to enter a “Cancel if not filled by” date. Your request will automatically expire after the date that you have entered. We recommend you enter a date that will allow sufficient time for the request to arrive.

With the majority of requests you will no longer be asked to choose a specific copy unless the title has more than one volume separate components e.g. CDs, tapes, booklets, etc.

If you need more help, or have questions or comments, please contact us.

Study Guides Policy Refresher

We’ve had some queries recently about putting study guides on Reserve and would like to take this opportunity to clarify our policy.

The Distance Library Service holds a full set of study guides to enable them to assist extramural students. These are for Library staff use only and cannot be put on Reserve. However, individual study guides are occasionally made available to internal students on request.

If you do wish to place study guides on Reserve for internal students please supply a copy of the study guide and send it to the Reserve Collection, Library together with the completed Temporary Material section of the Reserve Material Placement Form.

New Newspaper Resource - Library.PressDisplay

This is a fabulous new resource! Online fulltext access to over 500 newspapers and magazines worldwide. You can view the full-text of the newspaper just as it looks in the hardcopy version. I would have overlooked it, but it was pointed out to me.

It has many of those NZ community newspapers as well as most of the major NZ dailies (except the Otago Daily times).

You can search by keyword, country and language.

It has a 60-day rolling archive, 3 concurrent users and with a listing of papers and magazines from over 65 countries including New Zealand, Australia, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States there's bound to be something for everyone.

For access, go to the Massey Library Homepage -> Article Databases -> choose J-M from the alphabetical list then look under 'L' for Library.PressDisplay

OR do a title search on the Massey's Library Catalogue for 'Library.PressDisplay'

Enjoy!