Library

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• Library Learning Centre
• Treasure Hunt

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• Aim
• This exercise is to help you to understand and
  use the Library Learning Centre and its many
  e-resources.
• Objectives
• To learn about the Library Learning Centres
• To navigate and use some of the information
  resources available to you.
• To find the answers to the questions set in the
  Treasure Hunt

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Using the College Network Computer
SystemYour College Network AccountAll your
College work should be saved to your College
Network AccountYour College e-Mail AccountYou
are automatically given an e-mail account when
you register with the CollegeInternet UseYou
will be able to have Internet access when your
are registered with the College.This is subject
to The College Users Network Agreement which you
will have signed during your Induction.Intranet
UseThis is the Colleges own Web Site. Here you
can access your e-mails, get news about the
College Information put onto the Site by Your
Tutors for your course this may include
handouts and Assignments.
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Your College Network AccountFrom Start click on
My ComputerThis will bring up the screen you can
see (right).This shows the different Drives
available to your computer.This includes the A
Drive for your floppy discs your own Network
account (F) Drive. This is shown as your
College Number.There is enough space to save
your work for the whole year.When saving any of
your College workit is best to save it here and
only use the A (floppy) Drive if you have to do
some work at home.You can access your College
account from any computer in the College
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Opening and Saving Word files From the Start Menu
click on the Word Icon or Click on Start. Go to
All Programs and Click on Microsoft Office
Word This starts you in a new document. If you
want to save the work you are about to do Save
now to give your work a name. Click on File,
then Save As To save your document to your
College Account at the side of My
Documents Click on the arrow. A drop down Menu
will appear Click on your College No. In File
name re-name your file
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• Using your College e-Mail Account
• From the general computer icons
• click on College Intranet
• Then My Outlook.
• This will bring up your college
• e-mail site.
• Your College e-mail can be used
• as a general e-mail account.
• Your account address being your
• College Number e.g.
• 20055459_at_hughbaird.ac.uk

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Using your College e-Mail Account
Your name and College number is shown on your
account You can use your account the same as any
e-mailing system. One advantage is an address
book of College e-mail addresses. When you click
onto New A new box will appear for you to write
your message in. The To box has another useful
purpose, if you click onto it, a drop-down box
will appear with a list from which you can locate
any person registered in the College
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Library and Learning Centre
In a moment you will click on to the light button
bulb below to enter the Library Learning
Centres web page. Each question within this
Treasure Hunt will take you to a different part
of the Library Learning Centres Website You
should explore each page carefully in order to
answer the questions asked. If you want to
re-enter the Web pages, click on the light bulb
button, which appears on each page.
Click the button at the site to
return to the quiz
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There are 3 Library and Learning Centres in the
College.

• Where are they located?
• Click on the light bulb to find the answer
• 1st 3rd Floor Balliol Pembroke
• 3rd 4th Floor Balliol Pembroke
• 4th 5th Floor Balliol Pembroke

Click the button on the Webpage to get
back to the Treasure Hunt
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• Sorry No
• The Library Learning Centres are on the
• 4th 5th Floors Balliol
• Pembroke To check click on
• The
  light bulb

Click the button at the site to return
to the Quiz
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• Well done
• Lets see how well you do on the next one

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• You should enrol in the Library and Learning
  Centres
• Enrolling with the Library 7 Learning Centres
• What do you need to register with the Library
  Learning Centres?
• A Your passport
• B Your Valid College ID card
• C A recent photograph
  

click on the light bulb to find the answer
Click the button at the site to
return to the Quiz
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• No - Its your Valid
• College ID
• You will need

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• Yes
• Without your College ID card you cant borrow
  items or log on to the internet

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• Once you have joined the Library and Learning
  Centres many resources are available for you to
  borrow
• What are the different loan periods
• for borrowing resources
• A 7 Days AND 1 month
• B 2 weeks AND 1 month
• C 7 Days AND 3 weeks

click on the light bulb to find the answer
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to the Quiz
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No The answer was C 7 days And 3 weeks
Do you want to try again?
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to the Quiz
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• Yes
• And remember if you are late with a 7 day loan it
  is
• 20p a day fine

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• Each Library and Learning Centre is Subject
  based
• Where are the Health and Social Care resources
• located
• Pembroke
• Balliol 4th Floor
• Balliol 5th Floor

click on the light bulb to find the answer
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to the Quiz
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Yes Well done You can always get a printed copy
of the Subject List from the Library Learning
Centres
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No Health Social Care are in
the Pembroke Centre
If you want to check the answer, click on the
light bulb
Click the button at the site to return
to the Quiz
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• You must comply with the Library learning
  Centre rules regulations.
• Click on the light bulb to find out what these
  are.
• Which of the following IS acceptable behaviour in
  the Library Learning Centres?
• Word processing
• Eating cake
• Chatting on your mobile phone

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to the Quiz
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• Yes
• All the computers can be used for doing your
  assignments.
• The different types of software available can
  make your presentation much better

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• No
• There are signs in the Library Learning Centres
  telling you that food drink and the use of
  mobile phones are Not permitted in the centres

if you want to check go back to the light bulb
Click the button at the site to return
to the Quiz
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• The following 2 slides give you information about
  the Library Learning Computer Catalogue
• This information can be located in the Library
  Learning Centre Web site.

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• All Library Learning Centres (LLC) have
  computer catalogues. This is to help you locate
  you learning resources.
• Each LLC has a catalogue terminal or you can
  access the catalogue from the LLC Web pages via
  the light bulb icon.

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• When you use the catalogue you can search by
  using a keyword search or search by an
  authors name or book title.
• For instance you may want to find a book on
  maths revision at GCSE
• By using
• Maths and revision and gcse

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• When we look at the
• details of the book
• We see that the book is
• Located
• In the 4th Floor
• Library Learning Centre.
• What is the Class No. for this book.
• Look at the record to find the answer.
• A 510
• B 510.076
• C 510.76

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• No the answer is 510.076
• Here is the Catalogue display

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• Yes
• Well done

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• Now use the Catalogue to find out
• In which Library Learning Centre would you
• You find
• Customer service for Dummies located ?
• A 4th Floor
• B 5th Floor
• C Pembroke

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No Sorry The catalogue shows it is in the
Balliol 4th Floor LLC
if you want to check go back to the
light bulb
Click the button at the site to return
here
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• Yes
• You seem to know your Catalogue

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• Dont forget!
• There is a Library catalogue computer in each of
  the 3 LLCs.
• You can also find the catalogue online on the LLC
  Web pages

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• Now well look at the Electronic Resources on the
  Library Learning Centre web pages
• You can see how much information you can get
  access to directly.
• There are

Electronic JournalsElectronic NewspapersElectron
ic DatabasesElectronic Reference
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In the Electronic Reference section, you will
have access to Encyclopaedia Britannica. This can
be used by searching for keywords. For example,
click on the light bulb to view the entry
retrieved from the key word search for Arnold
Schwarzenegger In which country was Arnold
Schwarzenegger born?

• Switzerland

B. Austria
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return here
C. America
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• No
• B
• He was born in Austria

if you want to check go back to the light bulb
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• Yes
• Well done

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• In the Electronic Newspapers section
• you have access to thousands of
• Newspaper articles. Click on the light
• bulb to go to the newspapers.In Infotrac
• a search for Hugh Baird College provides
• us with several articles.
• In which newspaper does the article
• Joking Joe wears the trousers appear?
• Liverpool Echo
• Daily Post
• Bootle Times

click on the light bulb
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return
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No If you want to check click on the light
bulb to try again
Click the button at the site to return
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• Yes
• Thats right
• Try some more ?

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• Now you know what the newspaper database looks
  like, lets try something harder.
• Go to the Electronic Newspapers again
• Type in Johnny Walker but now limit your search
  to the 3rd of July 2002
• What is the name of the ship concerned in the
• article?
• Stork
• B. Whimbrel
• C. Starling

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• Sorry No
• The answer was
• HMS Whimbrel
• To check click on the light bulb

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• Well done
• Lets see if we can
• make it harder

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• KnowUK can be found in the Electronic
• databases section. It is a compendium
• of several reference works containing
• figures, facts and statistics about the
• U.K. For example.You could find out
• Who is sponsoring the Grand National this
• Year click on the light bulb type in the
• Keyword search Grand National Liverpool
• in the Location
• Is it
• Tetleys
• John Smiths
• Martell

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return
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• No
• The Grand National is being sponsored by
• John Smiths
• Do you want to check ?

Click the button at the site to return
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• Yes - well done
• Lets try something else

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• Another Database is Childlink.
• It contains information about children
• (welfare, politics, nitrition, etc.)
• Again, you can keyword search this
• source
• Click on the light bulb
• In the keyword search type, SIDS
• Looking down through the information what does
  SIDS mean

• Sickness in Death Syndrome
• Sudden Infant Disease Syndrome
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

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• No the answer is C
• If you want to check
• Click the light bulb try again

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• Yes - well done

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• Another source of information is EBSCO
• In Electronic Journals there are 4 EBSCO sources.
• EBSCO Vocational Career Collection has journals
  on
• professions as varied as Hairdressing and
• Aeronautical Engineering.
• Click on the light bulb, Click the Vocational
  Collection
• and type in Venice travel
• Is the source journal
• Travel Weekly
• International traveller
• National Geographic traveller

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• No Sorry
• The answer is
• C
• The National Geographic Traveller

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• Yes
• Well done

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• Now you have finished the Web Quest
• We hope it will have shown you how
• much information you can get by using
• the Library Learning Centres
• E-Resources.
• Keep on Questing