Learn how to access the University resources!
If you are a new research or postgraduate student at Kingston University, then this ‘bite-sized’ session is for you. We will be showing you the basics of how to access the Kingston University resources, from the staff pages to utilising the scholarly research databases and articles which will be useful for you.
The main focus will be on the iCat, our library catalogue, and how you can access a variety of resources through this page, including e-journals, e-books and print books.
This session will not go into a great amount of detail of how to search the databases and e-journals as this will be covered in more advanced skills sessions. However, this session will make you aware of the library facilities available for you as a researcher and how to access these on and off-campus.
It will take place at Kingston Hill next Thursday, 4th June between 12-12.30 pm.
Book before the deadline ends tomorrow:
http://blogs.kingston.ac.uk/libtut/event-registration/?ee=91
You’ll also need to cite and reference all the sources which you have consulted. It’s therefore vitally important that you keep track of everything you read. If you were just writing an essay, you might be able to simply jot down the titles of books and articles as you went along – but this becomes impractical with a large Literature Review when you may have to juggle and recall dozens and dozens of different sources.
There are a few things to remember about the new scheme. Your loans will continue to be renewed automatically unless an item on your account is requested by another student or member of staff. When this happens, the item will not be renewed, and you’ll be sent an email requesting that you return the item to one of the LRCs. To ensure that you receive these communications, it’s very important that you regularly check your Kingston email account. Fines will continue to be charged on requested items that are not returned by the due date.
Hi, my name’s Josh Chapman, and I’m the Subject Librarian for Computing and Information Systems.
Is there a book that you think the LRC should have? Please let us know! You can email discover@kingston.ac.uk or fill in one of the festive-themed postcards which are available now in any of our four campus libraries. iCat’s looking forward to hearing from you!
ontinue tomorrow, Thursday 27th October at 1pm, with our session on how to find previous dissertations.
The following sessions are running in January:
