Library Research Clinic for HOD Graduate Students Leslie

Library Research Clinic for HOD Graduate Students Leslie Foutch, Librarian for HOD

Research Clinic Highlights • Basic Library Services • Off-campus access to e-resources (VUnet ID & e-password) • Research Guide for HOD • The VUfinder tool • Library catalogs & databases • My job as your liaison • Contacting me: phone, email, instant chat, research consultations by appointment or just stop by my office (ground floor, office #009)

Basic Library Services • • • Checking out books: 90 day loan period Blackboard Interlibrary loan APA Citation Style and Zotero Wireless access (SSID configuration) Technology in the Library

Library Catalogs • ACORN: the “legacy” catalog of the VU Libraries • Discover. Library: the VU Libraries metasearch tool • World. Cat: Catalog of more than 125 million records from U. S. libraries and libraries around the world.

Google vs. Library Databases • In a library nutshell, the expert organization of content indexed within the library databases will save you time, less headaches and will provide you with the most relevant, appropriate, and authoritative results. • Google Scholar is simply a discovery tool for finding scholarly information.

Research Guide for HOD

So before the first research assignment is here and this happens….

Contact me. I am just an email away at: • leslie. foutch@vanderbilt. edu • Questions about today’s presentation

Need your feedback! • Please browse to https: //b. socrative. com/login/student/and enter room number: 3281974 • Answer the following: After attending today’s session, what do you think is most valuable for future HOD students to know?