COSC Grad  – Orientation – Introductions

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COSC Grad Orientation

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COSC Grad 

Orientation

by Tim Ribaric
tribaric@brocku.ca

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Traditional Library Services
  • Non-Traditional Library Services
  • Doing Research in COSC
  • Questions?

Introductions

  • Tim Ribaric
  • Completed CS degree at UWO in 2006
  • Completed MLIS at UWO in 2008
  • Librarian in charge of Computer Science & Philosophy

Tell me about yourselves

  • What is your research in?
  • Have you used the Library yet?

Traditional Library Services

or 'Where do I get the Books?'

Borrowing Books

  • The Library Catalogue has the listing of what books are here
  • Can borrow up to 45 books at once
  • Can borrow books for term loan
  • Can renew titles online

Working in the Library

  • Sixth Floor has a dedicated study space & Meeting Room
  • Main floor has 10 bookable study rooms
  • Series of inclosed cubicles on upper floors
  • Book online via: https://studyrooms.library.brocku.ca

Printing and Photocopying

  • Have a different printer system then the rest of campus
  • Photocopiers can scan with OCR markup
  • Full Service Copy Shop on the 5th Floor

Finding Material We Don't have

  • Often you'll find a citation for something we don't have
  • You can request that item via an Inter Library Loan
  • The system that does that is called Racer
  • Free to use
  • Article requests will come to you as PDF's

Non Traditional Library Services

Some other tools that might help

Borrowing/Buying Equipment

  • Lots of miscellaneous equipment that can be borrowed
  • Laptops are the most popular
  • You can buy headphones, pens, whiteboard markers etc

Citation Management

  • Keeping track of you citations for your thesis might be challenging
  • We have access to a web based tool called RefWorks
  • RefWorks will export things in BibTex
  • There is another product called Zotero that is installed on Library computers (if you'd like to try it)

Working from home

  • Just about everything we have is available from home
  • Just start at our website first

Should look like this

Using the 'Get It' Button

  • As you search you'll eventually come across the 'Get It' button
  • This is a metadata match up service

Find the 'Get It'

Click Through

Final Result

Doing research in COSC

A Good Place to Start

has links to:
Super Search
Library Catalogue
Databases to Search with
(eg. Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Books

Databases/Electronic Resources

Have complete access to Lecture Notes in Computer Science
* Springer is a popular publisher in the field
Might want to try SuperSearch to get a look at what is out there

Final ThoughtsQuestions?

Contact me for:

Help with the Library
Suggesting books to purchase
Help with Research
tribaric@brocku.ca