Information Services and Systems
Welcome!
Croeso!
Your Librarians are:
Sean Barr
Katherine Jones
Sue Jarvis
Sam Oakley
Michele Davies
Rebecca Kelleher
Marie Bevan
buslib@swansea.ac.uk
www.swansea.ac.uk/iss
Information Services and Systems
Today’s Plan
1. Introduction to the library and what it has to
offer (hint – more than books!)
2. How to find books, journals, articles and
more
3. Where to find help
4. Library online assessment exercise in
Blackboard (for UG ASD101 only)
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To login...
•Username is your student number e.g.
123456
•Password – Your student number followed by
your date of birth eg. 123456/07/01/1989
•Connecting to the Swansea Wireless Internet
System (SWIS) can be done though swis.swan.ac.uk
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At the Library you will find:
• 800,000 books and journals
• Long opening hours
Opening hours term time
Sun – Thurs 8 am–2 am
Fri – Sat
8 am–10 pm
•24 hour opening during exam time
• Helpful
staff!
The Library deals with IT, referencing, literature searching,
ID cards and a lot more...
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Printing/Photcopying/Scanning
• Register your card at one of the machines
(you will be asked to set a 4 digit PIN)
• Put money on your card using a revaluer
• Use the machines with your card and PIN
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•Consider how you use your own social media?
•What are you saying about yourself online?
•Think ahead, very important considering your
possible future career!
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Blackboard (my studies)
• Blackboard is Swansea University’s Virtual Learning
Environment on the web.
• Go to http://myuni.swan.ac.uk/ to access it.
• Login using your normal username and password
• Course modules & Library support modules
• Library Support for Human Sciences
• Library Support for Criminology
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iFind Discover – Library catalogue
• Available online at
https://ifind.swan.ac.uk/discover
• Available through
myuni.swan.ac.uk/
• Find books and journals
• Renew what you have
borrowed
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iFind Discover – Library catalogue
Lets look for:
Book
Blakemore, K. (2007). Social policy: an
introduction (3rd edition). Maidenhead:
Open University Press.
Journal
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
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TK5105.5>HAL4
one week loan
TK
5105
5
Hal4
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That’s great but....
• ...can I access any resources online?
• Yes – some books and most journals are
available online
• Use your Swansea University Login username
and Password to access most online resources
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Let’s look at...
• Ebooks:
Burney, E. (2009). Making people behave: anti-social
behaviour, politics and policy. Cullompton: Willan.
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What is a Journal?
• Published on a regular basis (weekly, monthly,
quarterly etc.)
• Each issue contains a collection of articles
reporting the latest research and
developments within a specific subject
discipline
• Peer-reviewed/Scholarly – reliable information
on recent research which has been assessed
by a board of experts
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Where to look for articles
Journals
If you just know the name of the
journal use iFind Discover
eg: Critical Social Policy
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Where to look for articles. (Cont)
When you know the details of the article,
(from a reading list or reference list)use iFind Research
Moss, P., Dillon, J., & Statham, J. (2000). The
“child in need” and the "rich child”:
discourses, constructions and practice. Critical
Social Policy, 20(2), 233-254.
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Where to look for articles. (Cont)
When you are searching on a topic to get an
overviewTopic Search (overcrowding in prisons)
A-Z List – Category Tab - Databases
iFind Research
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What is a database?
• Used for a focussed search on a topic
• ASSIA (Proquest) – good for social sciences
• Search (drugs and links with violence)
– iGetIt button
– Descriptors
– Thesaurus
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Need help? Just ask!
buslib@swansea.ac.uk
/swanuni.iss
@swanuni_iss