Help WantedLibrary website: - Services page for basic borrowing information and opening hours - Guides and Online Help – Creative and Cultural Industries page Filmmaking & Screenwriting, Study Skills, Evaluating Websites… Moodle: - Library guides - UWS Referencing Guide under Quicklinks

Subject Librarians Raewyn.riach@uws.ac.uk

Jacqueline.boston@uws.ac.uk

Finding Information – what should you be looking for?

Books, print and electronic DVDsNewspaper articles Journal articles Internet sites

Books – print /electronic Reading list books in UWS Library – search

library catalogue www.uws.ac.uk/library Reference books Print books can be requested from other

Campus Libraries, takes about 3 days Return books to any Campus Library eBooks require University network login for

access

Reference Books

The Business of Entertainment 790.2 / SICEncyclopedia of Radio 384.54 / STEEncyclopedia of Television 385.55 / NEWEncyclopedia of the Documentary Film 070.18 / AIT

DVDs Listed in Library catalogue by title and director Red folder of title listings of DVDs – separate listing for

documentaries Ayr Campus Library - printed list next to DVD stands,

section of music DVDs by title and artist One week loan for DVDs

Journals

Print Journals

Broadcast Journal of Radio &

Audio Media Televisual

Electronic Journals

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Journal of British Cinema and Television

Media, Culture and Society

Screen Studies in Documentary

Film

Finding newspaper/journal articles by topic

Use the databases on the Library website on the CCI Electronic Resources page. For example:Taylor & Francis Journals Newsbank (full text British newspaper articles)

Databases with film and sound clips

British Library Sounds Independent Radio Screen Online All clips used need to be acknowledged and referenced.

Harvard ReferencingWhether you have been using books, journals or websites for

your research, they will all need to be acknowledged and referenced using UWS Harvard.

Examples for how to reference all kinds of texts and images are available in the CoRE (Collection of Referencing Examples) available on Moodle.

To google or not to google? Google actually only searches between 10-20% of Internet Remaining 70% - 80% known as ‘Invisible Web’ Scroll through more than first screen of results Use more than one search engine Google Advanced Search http://

www.google.com/advanced_search Exact phrase searching

Evaluating Websites or why you shouldn’t reference Wikipedia

Who is the intended audience of the website? Scope of the website? Are there political, ideological, cultural, religious or

institutional biases? Authority / Authorship Are there other websites covering the same or similar

subjects? Evaluating Websites – guidelines on Library website