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for undergraduates
Roger Mills
OULS Bio- & Environmental Sciences Librarian
October 2008
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WHY AM I HERE?
YOU ARE HERE TO READ
THEN
The three R’s
NOW
The three B’s
BED
BEER
BLUFF
Helping you excel in the 3 B’s
Bedroom service – online 24/7
Save time in the library = more drinking
time
The information you need to bluff your
way, when you want it and where you
want it
What a lot we’ve got
More than them
 fewer than them
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Actually
10M+ books
28K+ e-journals
800+ databases
600+ staff
100+ sites
£30M+ budget
 ALL FOR YOU!
It can get on top of you
Master it , and the world is your
oyster
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What is the world?
It’s a
library
A complex,
interrelated
information
store
Seeing the detail
We provide the optics
Remember
You are not an
albatross
Libraries without walls
Thought police
Walls hold things in
A library is a selected, edited, controlled
[censored?] set of materials collected to
serve a particular audience
The WWW isn’t. Or is it?
The truth isn’t out there
Generation Y
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97% own a computer
97% have downloaded music and other media using peer-to-peer file sharing
94% own a cell phone
76% use instant messaging and social networking sites
66.6% of college students use Facebook
60% own some type of portable music and/or video device such as an iPod
49% regularly download music and other media using peer-to-peer file sharing
34% use websites as their primary source of news
28% author a blog and 44% read blogs
15% of IM users are logged on 24 hours a day/7 days a week
Junco, Reynol; Mastrodicasa, Jeanna (2007-03-29). Connecting to the
Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know About
Today's Students, 1st, NASPA. ISBN 0-931654-48-3. Retrieved on 2008-07-19
From Wikipedia
We have the technology
What about the content?
Google
Can there be more to life?
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Don’t be evil
‘Thou shalt not kill; but need not strive
Officiously to keep alive.’
Arthur Hugh Clough The Last
Decalogue 1862
‘No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency’
What happens when you press
return
Think about it!
We just don’t know…
Networks matter
Need help with IT matters? Connecting to the
network, fixing your computer, WiFi, etc – see
your college IT officer or go to Help Desk at
OUCS
See http://welcometoit.ox.ac.uk/
Networked resources accessible from outside
Oxford using your SSO (= Herald e-mail
username/password)
Words matter
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What’s this?
 Flash drive
 Pen drive
 Memory stick
 USB stick
 USB drive
 USB flash drive
 USB pen drive
 Flash pen drive
 USB memory drive
 USB pen
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 USB flash drives are also known
as "pen drives", "flash drives",
"USB drives", "USB sticks" and a
wide variety of other names. They
are also sometimes incorrectly
called memory sticks, which is a
Sony trademark describing their
type of memory card.
A USB flash drive is essentially NANDtype flash memory integrated with a
USB 1.1 or 2.0 interface used as a
small, lightweight, removable data
storage device currently available in
sizes: 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB & 8GB
©http://www.picstop.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drive
Context and definition
Control your language
Be aware what is indexed and what isn’t
If it’s not there, you won’t find it!
First: decide what it is you’re looking for
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
No, it’s a periodical article
Or is it a book?
Or a map?
Or a video?
Always read the question!
 Maynard Smith J. (1998). Evolutionary Genetics. (2nd
Edition). Oxford University Press.
 Ridley M. (1996). Evolution (2nd Edition). Blackwell
Science Inc. [Chapters 11-13].
 Bell, G (1997). Selection: The Mechanism of
Evolution. Chapman & Hall
 Craig A. Stockwell, Andrew P. Hendry and Michael T.
Kinnison (2003) Contemporary evolution meets
conservation biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution,
1: 94-101.
Always read the question!
 Maynard Smith J. (1998). Evolutionary Genetics. (2nd
Edition). Oxford University Press.
 Ridley M. (1996). Evolution (2nd Edition). Blackwell
Science Inc. [Chapters 11-13].
 Bell, G (1997). Selection: The Mechanism of
Evolution. Chapman & Hall
 Craig A. Stockwell, Andrew P. Hendry and Michael T.
Kinnison (2003) Contemporary evolution meets
conservation biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution,
1: 94-101.
Always read the question!
 Maynard Smith J. (1998). Evolutionary Genetics. (2nd
Edition). Oxford University Press.
 Ridley M. (1996). Evolution (2nd Edition). Blackwell
Science Inc. [Chapters 11-13].
 Bell, G (1997). Selection: The Mechanism of
Evolution. Chapman & Hall
 Craig A. Stockwell, Andrew P. Hendry and Michael T.
Kinnison (2003) Contemporary evolution meets
conservation biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution,
1: 94-101.
Always read the question!
 Maynard Smith J. (1998). Evolutionary Genetics. (2nd
Edition). Oxford University Press.
 Ridley M. (1996). Evolution (2nd Edition). Blackwell
Science Inc. [Chapters 11-13].
 Bell, G (1997). Selection: The Mechanism of
Evolution. Chapman & Hall
 Craig A. Stockwell, Andrew P. Hendry and Michael T.
Kinnison (2003) Contemporary evolution meets
conservation biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution,
1: 94-101.
Always read the question!
 Maynard Smith J. (1998). Evolutionary Genetics. (2nd
Edition). Oxford University Press.
 Ridley M. (1996). Evolution (2nd Edition). Blackwell
Science Inc. [Chapters 11-13].
 Bell, G (1997). Selection: The Mechanism of
Evolution. Chapman & Hall
 Craig A. Stockwell, Andrew P. Hendry and Michael T.
Kinnison (2003) Contemporary evolution meets
conservation biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution,
1: 94-101.
Always read the question!
 But don’t necessarily believe it!
 There is a typo in this reference
 Craig A. Stockwell, Andrew P. Hendry and Michael T. Kinnison
(2003) Contemporary evolution meets conservation biology,
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1: 94-101.
 Actually volume 18:
 Contemporary evolution meets conservation biology
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volume 18, Issue 2, February
2003, Pages 94-101
Craig A. Stockwell, Andrew P. Hendry, Michael T. Kinnison
OK, now where is it?
If it’s a book: search SOLO; it will tell
you which libraries have copies and if
they are on loan
If it’s a journal article: search OU eJournals to see if we have the journal
on-line
If we don’t, check SOLO to see if we
have a print copy
SOLO tells you which libraries have
copies, but to find out which are
available click through to the library
catalogue, OLIS
From here you can place reservations or
stack requests, and renew books on
loan
Books and pizza
No home delivery service for books (yet!)
You have to go to the library
College library – just for college members
Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) & Social
Science Library (SSL): reference and lending
for all
Maps: New Bodleian Library, Map Room
Departmental libraries: Plant Sciences and
Zoology
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1: RSL
2: Bod Map
Room
3: Plant
Sciences
4: Zoology
5: Social
Sciences
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5
2
Open all hours
College: 24hrs
RSL: till 10pm in term, daytime Sat/Sun
Depts: office hours (when dept is open)
Details: www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries or
printed Guide to Libraries in Oxford
Borrowing
Most books borrowable; should be one
reference copy at least for all course texts
Loan periods and no. of books vary; check at
the library: typically 15 items for 7 days
Fines generally 20p/day (£1 day/50p hour
overnight items)
Use your university card for borrowing
Get it. Copy it
Watch it!
Copyright regulations
70 years after author’s death
Legal limits: you can only copy or download:
 One article per periodical issue
 5% of total work
 Policed by Copyright Licensing Agency
We have legal deposit
At least we did until you came along…
Right to a free copy of every book and journal
published in the UK
Since 1632
Could lose it if found to be infringing
copyright laws
That’s why we want you to observe them!
Avoiding plagiarism
Growing problem
Do not pass off other people’s work as
your own
Make it clear when you are quoting and
always give the full source
Keep good records of all your sources
as you find them
Other regulations
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Regulations relating to the use of the facilities of the Oxford University Library Services
Made by the Curators of the University Libraries on 12 June 2006. Approved by Council on10 July 2006.
Explanatory note:
These regulations embody the Bodleian Library declaration, to which all readers admitted to Oxford University Library Services’ libraries and facilities are deemed to have subscribed, and to which they must adhere. The declaration reads:
“I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the
Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library.”
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1. These regulations shall apply to all facilities within the Oxford University Library Services.
2. In these regulations “material” means any material, including electronic material, owned by or in the possession or custody of a library or library service and “issued” means legitimately in a reader’s possession either as a loan, an intended loan or for
consultation or use within a library, and including material and equipment legitimately taken directly by a reader without the intermediation of library staff.
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3. A person may use a library only after being formally registered as a reader in it. With the exception of short-term readers admitted on day passes, all readers must have a valid University or Library Card.
4. Readers may bring visitors into a library only with the express permission of library staff.
5. The only animals which readers may bring into a library are guide dogs.
6. Readers are responsible for keeping libraries informed of changes in the personal data kept by the libraries, including their address and email address.
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7. Readers are responsible for material or equipment issued to them until they have returned it in accordance with library procedures, and must at all times protect material or equipment issued to them and must not damage it or expose it to hazardous
conditions.
8. Readers must not write in, mark, or otherwise deface or damage library material or equipment in any way.
9. Readers must use only library-approved facilities to photocopy, photograph, or scan material in the library.
10. Readers must not eat or chew anything (including sweets or gum) or drink anything (including water) in any part of a library, unless allowed by a local library regulation.
11. Readers may use portable computers or other electrical equipment of their own only in accordance with the instructions of library staff.
12. Readers may take material from the shelves, call it up from bookstacks, or borrow it only in accordance with library procedures.
13. Readers must observe all regulations and instructions relating to the introduction, deposit, and inspection of bags and cases.
14. Readers must familiarise themselves with and observe the regulations and procedures of each library they use, and must leave the library immediately in the event of a fire alarm or if instructed to do so in any other emergency.
15. Readers must leave library premises by the stated closing time unless permission for after-hours access has been granted.
16. Readers must carry their Readers’ or University Cards with them at all times in a library and show their cards if a member of staff requests them to do so.
17. Readers must follow all other reasonable requests of library staff.
18. Readers must return promptly any library material or equipment issued to them if they are requested to do so.
19. Readers must treat as confidential any information which may become available to them through the use of library facilities which is not clearly intended for unrestricted dissemination (such as information about other readers); such information must not
be copied, modified, disseminated, or used either in whole or in part without the permission of the library or other person or body entitled to give it.
20. Readers may make copies from library material only as allowed by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended by subsequent legislation.
21. Readers must not engage in conduct which infringes in any way the regulations of the University governing the use of the property of or in the possession or custody of the University, or the facilities and services provided by or on behalf of the
University, including the Regulations relating to the Use of Information Technology Facilities.
22. Readers must not pass their Readers' or University Cards, , or passwords for accessing electronic resources, or other items issued to them by a library, to another person for library use, or use them for the benefit of another person.
23. Readers must not hold conversations or engage in other conduct in a library which causes or is likely to cause inconvenience, annoyance, or offence to other readers or members of staff.
24. When using a computer or other equipment readers must do so as quietly as possible so as to avoid causing disturbance to others.
25. Readers must not use mobile telephones, radios, cassette recorders, cameras, or similar equipment in a library, even with headphones, unless specific provision has been made for such use.
26. Readers must not engage in the harassment of any other reader or member of library staff.
27. Readers must not smoke in any part of a library.
28. Readers must not prejudice the safety or well-being of any other reader or member of library staff by engaging in disorderly, threatening or offensive behaviour.
29. Readers must show due regard for their own safety and that of other readers and staff.
Discipline
30. Where breach or attempted breach of Regulations 7-12 above results in the late return of material borrowed, readers will be liable to pay fines in accordance with a tariff to be published by the Curators of the University Libraries from time to time.
31. Where breach or attempted breach of Regulations 7-12 above results in damage to or loss of materials issued to them, readers will be liable for the costs of making good the damage or loss, including administrative and replacement costs.
32. Unless otherwise dealt with by these or by local regulations, infringement or attempted infringement of these Regulations by members of the University as defined in Statute II Section 1 will be dealt with under the disciplinary procedures of the University
as set out in Statute XI and associated Regulations.
33. Unless otherwise dealt with by these or by local regulations, infringement or attempted infringement of these Regulations by persons who are not members of the University will be dealt with under the Section 42(7) of Statute XI and associated
Regulations.
[Note: Statutes and Regulations may be consulted at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/. Amendments may be published in Oxford University Gazette (http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/) from time to time.]
[From Oxford University Gazette, 27 July 2006: University Acts, http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/weekly/270706/acts.htm]
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Use of Libraries and Library Material
Main points
Please do not eat or drink in libraries
Please do not steal or deface library materials
Please be considerate towards other users
Turn off your mobile phone!
OR
We can withhold your degree…
When in need
We are here to help
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