Welcome to UCD Library Service Peter Hickey Head

Welcome to UCD Library Service Peter Hickey – Head of Library Academic Services, Science Technology and Medicine Aoife O’Brien - Acting Head of Reader Services UCD Library University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4. Leabharlann UCD An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath, Belfield, Baile Átha Cliath 4

What we will cover • About UCD Library • Your Key Library Services • Supporting you as Teacher • Supporting you as Researcher

Library Staff • Dr. John Brooks Howard • University Librarian • 140 Full-time equivalent staff

Location • 5 Sites – – – Blackrock Health Sciences James Joyce Richview Veterinary

Location • 5 Sites – Blackrock – – Health Sciences James Joyce Richview Veterinary

Location • 5 Sites – Blackrock – Health Sciences – James Joyce – Richview – Veterinary

Location • 5 Sites – – Blackrock Health Sciences James Joyce Richview – Veterinary

Opening hours

Library card • You need your UCD staff ID card to use the library

• For access

Library card • For borrowing at the counter

Library card • For the Express Service Machines

Holdings • There about 1. 5 million books

Holdings • 20, 000+ journal titles • Many of these are online

JJL – Staff reading room

Your Desktop

www. ucd. ie/library

UCD Library Catalogue

e. Resources

Electronic resources

Inter Library Loans

SCONUL access

ALCID

Web 2. 0 • UCD Library are leaders in Web 2. 0 in Ireland

Instant Messaging

Second Life

Face. Book

Others

Supporting you as Teacher 1. Your Key contacts 2. Collections to support your teaching 3. Helping your students to become better users of information

Key Contacts: Your Liaison Librarian

Key Contacts: Webpage for UCD Staff

When designing your Programme or Module • How will my students fulfil the course requirements? • What resources will they need to consult? • Where; print, electronic, web? • Does the Library have the required materials? • Can we get it? • What is the timeline to ensure that resources are available to support the teaching? • Other alternatives? • Have I forwarded my resource list to Library?

Ordering resources for Library

School Information Resources Policies

Supporting student Learning Using information effectively, a life long learning skill “My students are just cutting and pasting” “They rely on wikipedia too much” “I expect them to be able to find and use academic content in their coursework”

Supporting Student Learning 561. 5 hours of information skills delivery Total attendances: 13, 962 • Introduction to resources • Effective Search Strategies • How to evaluate information • Avoiding plagiarism • Citing correctly

How we do it • Currently delivering 6 modules • Presentations and workshop sessions • Support of PBL in 5 schools • Web. Pages • Online tutorials

Information skills online

http: //www. ucd. ie/library/staff_training/

Research Collections

Institutional repositories Open access

Think of the Library • Excellent resource and partner • Consult early in planning processes • Opportunities to co-operate