CC0H01NDevelopment in TechnologyLecture 3-Library Matters

-Prakash Shrestha(derived from Week 3 slide of londonmet

presented by Shelly Ahemed

Islington College Library• Located at Brit House• Ms. Sadhana Karki, Librarian

How to borrow Books?• Find books relevant to your course of study.• All books arranged in specific shelves.– LondonMet Text Books– Reference Books– Magazines– Extras.

E-Library from LondonMet

Accessing the Library Services Page

Searching the Online Catalogue• Keyword – for a book where you know at least the

surname of the author and some or all of the title or for any book on a particular subject.

• Author/Title - for a book with a very common title or author surname

• Title - for a particular book

Finding a book

Gralla, P. (2007) How the Internet works, 8th ed. Indianapolis, Que Pub.

Finding a book from a reference on a reading list.

Gralla, P. (2007) How the Internet works, 8th ed. Indianapolis,

Que Pub.

Harvard Style

Usually you will see only the initial used for the first name ‘Preston’, so you will see the reference as Gralla P.

The publisher is Que Publications – sometimes you will see the publisher’s name shortened.

I

Indianapolis, is the place of publication. Usually only the town/city (e.g. London) is given. Sometimes the country is given. If the town is in America, the reference may list the state.

Catalogue Homepage

Keyword Search

1. Type the author’s lastname / surname, e.g. ‘gralla’.If there is more than one author, choose one, usually the first author.

In this case there is only one.

2. Type the first word or words or some of the words in the title, e.g. ‘how’.

3. Click on ‘Search’.

There are two books with the same title!

Only one is 2007

Keyword Search

List of items

This is online

This is NOT online

This is a book a book and you can read it online.

This can be accessed online, but is this a book?

This is not an e-book but a journal (or an e-journal)

Magazines and Journals

Journals

• Provide journal articles• ‘Periodic’ – weekly, monthly, quarterly etc.• Specific• Up-to-date• Concise• Some are ‘refereed’ or ‘peer reviewed’• Original research• Reviews

Searching for a Journal

Change the year to look at a different year.

Click on ‘View contents’ to see what is inside a particular issue.

Scroll down to look at the title of each article.

Article from a ‘magazine’

Look a the Library Services page

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/libraries/subject-help/subjects/computing/computing_home.cfm

Click on “Find Electronic......”

From the above page Scroll down until you get to ACM Digital Library

From an university pc

From outside the university or from a laptop

Library catalogue

Library record on the catalogue. Clicking on the blue hyperlink ‘ACM digital library’ will take you to the login page. Login with your university ITusername and password.

ACM Digital Library

article

Next Tutorial:• A visit to the Library-Brit House• Accessing and Downloading online materials from

LondonMet e-library.