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Highbury College Library Service Tips for Teachers 15 th June 2011

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Highbury College Library Service

Tips for Teachers

15th June 2011

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Highbury Campus Library

• Stock relevant to subjects taught on site

• Books and periodicals

• DVDs, CD-ROMs and audio CDs

• Computers with Internet access

• Wi-Fi enabled

• Fiction collection

• Newspapers

• Nursery Collection

• Quiet study area

• H.E. study area

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Northarbour Library

• Stock relevant to subjects taught on site

• Books and periodicals

• DVDs and CD-ROMs

• Computers with Internet access, 10 on the ground floor of the library and 18 on the mezzanine floor

• Wi-Fi enabled

• Specialist e-resources for construction and the built environment (see library staff for detailed information)

• Small fiction collection

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Highbury City of Portsmouth Centre Library

• Stock relevant to subjects taught on site and at Highbury Arundel centre

• Books and periodicals

• DVDs, CD-ROMs and audio CDs

• Computers with Internet access

• Wi-Fi enabled

• Fiction collection

• Newspapers

• Nursery Collection

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Library Services

• Joining the library is free of charge. To obtain a library card, please visit any of the three library sites

• Staff can borrow up to 26 items of various media at a time. Borrowed items can be renewed twice, unless reserved by another reader.

• Our online catalogue of library stock (Heritage) is available through MyCourse

• Reservations and inter-library loans

• Colour and black & white photocopying and printing

• Recording of television programmes from Freeview channels; these are then uploaded to MyTube.

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Book and stationery sales

• Students and staff are able to purchase books and stationery at any of the college libraries

• Books can also be purchased via the college’s online bookstore, powered by Amazon: www.highbury.ac.uk/bookshop

• The library should be used to place book orders for your department

• 10% discount offered to staff and students on books bought

• Books need to be ordered, but most arrive within two weeks

• Each library sells a range of stationery at competitive prices, and Highbury Campus library also sells birthday cards and stamps

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Support for your classes

• Each library has a budget to spend on subject resources

• The library will request a course reading / resource list from you to ensure the resources your students need are available

• Library staff deliver inductions and training sessions for students, please contact your site librarian to book these sessions

• Librarians aid the Learning Technology Team in uploading relevant e-resources to MyCourse and can create new MyCourse pages for staff

• The library is your first point of call if students have problems logging in to the computers

• Library contact details:

• General library enquiries: [email protected]• Librarian: [email protected]

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How you can help the library service

• Please return resources you have borrowed on time, to allow other library users to borrow them

• Please support library staff in chasing students for fines and non-return of resources

• If students continually misbehave in the library, library staff will report this behaviour to tutors. Please support library staff in dealing with these matters.

• Please provide library staff with a reading list for your course

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Library resources on MyCourse

The college library provides online learning materials on MyCourse.

After logging in students and staff will see the library block, which has links to

• The library catalogue• MyTube (Highbury’s visual media

platform)• Online book ordering service• PC booking (for individual students

only)• MySearch (includes access to

e-journals)

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E-resourcesClick on the library catalogue link to access the library’s growing e-book collections, newspaper databases, online encyclopaedias and much more

If you would like further training for yourself or your students on using

any library e-resource please contact your site library