Supporting your learning and research needs: Social Science Library induction

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Supporting your learning and research needs
Social Science Library induction

• Louise Clarke
• louise.clarke_at_ssl.ox.ac.uk
• Social Science Library

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Outline

• Introduction to Oxford University Library
  Services
• Social Science Library collections and services
• Searching the catalogue - SOLO and OLIS
• Online resources for Criminology Oxford
  e-journals and OxLIP
• Library tour

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Oxford libraries

• 100 libraries in Oxford
• Includes college, department and Oxford
  University Library Services (OULS) libraries
• Bodleian Libraries reference only
• College libraries restricted access (except
  Nuffield)

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Finding your way around OULS

• OULS comprises 40 libraries and central services
• See the OULS website for information about each
  library and a map!
• http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk
• Bodleian Law Library
• http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/law
• Reference-only
• Term opening hours Mon Fri 9am 10pm
• Sat 10am 6pm and Sun 11am 6pm

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SSL Opening hours

• Term (Weeks 0 - 9)
• Mon to Fri 9 am - 10 pm
• Doors open at 8.45am to enable those with early
  lectures to borrow books
• Saturday 10 am 6 pm
• Sunday 12 noon 6 pm
• Vacation
• Mon to Fri 9 am 7pm
• Sat (Christmas and Easter) 10 am 6 pm
• Sat (Summer) 10 am 4 pm
• Sunday Closed

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Collections

• Books are shelved by subject
• Library of Congress subject classification
• Criminology is at HV6001 HV7220.5
• Law is at K KZ
• Journals are shelved alphabetically by title
• 800 current titles
• Reference-only

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Borrowing

• 30 books
• normal loans 1 week
• short loans 2 days
• Library will email you a reminder the day before
  the due date
• You can renew books over the library catalogue
  OLIS up to 7 times unless
• reserved by another reader
• overdue
• Books with library use only stickers can not be
  borrowed reference only

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Item in use slips

• Available throughout the Library
• Fill in title, shelfmark, date seat number when
  using a reference copy of a book
• Enables readers to find reading list texts in use

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400 study spaces

• 3 rooms for graduate use only
• 2 discussion rooms
• 10 individual study carrels
• 54 networked PCs

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Laptops

• Wireless is available throughout the Library,
  connect to the OULS-reader network, open a web
  browser, and log-in with your OLIS barcode and
  password.
• You need to register your laptop if you wish to
  connect to the network via Ethernet. Forms are
  available from the Issue Desk. Ethernet cables
  can be borrowed from the Desk
• The partitioned seating outside the central
  graduate room is a quiet area no laptops

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OLIS barcode and password

• Your default password is your date of birth in
  the form 12oct1982

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Photocopying printing

• Buy a rechargeable card from issue desk for 1.00
• 7p per page
• Can be used in many Oxford libraries

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Services for disabled readers

• Please talk to us about how we can help you.
  Services available include
• Induction loop at the Library desk
• Book fetching if material is inaccessible
• Borrowing on your behalf by a nominated assistant
  
• Coloured photocopying paper if required for
  legibility
• Large-print versions of Library publications
• Extended loan arrangements
• gillian.pritchard_at_ssl.ox.ac.uk
• http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/disability/aracu
  

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Website http//www.ssl.ox.ac.uk
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SOLO http//solo.ouls.ox.ac.uk
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Sample reading list

• Sumner, Colin, 1994. The sociology of deviance
  an obituary.
• Cox, Pamela Shore, Heather, 2002. Becoming
  delinquent British and European Youth 1650-1950
• Hale, Chris, 2005. Criminology.
• Kreager, Derek, 2007. When its good to be
  bad violence and adolescent peer acceptance.
  Criminology. 454, pp. 893-923.

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Library catalogue OLIS http//www.lib.ox.ac.uk/oli
s/
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Stack request

• Items from the Bodleian Bookstack, Bodleian
  Nuneham and Radcliffe Science Library Bookstack
  can be requested to the SSL Issue Desk
• 5 items per person at any one time reference
  only
• Items kept behind desk for 7 days (can be renewed
  when returned to the Issue Desk or using OLIS)
• 2 deliveries per day, 9am and 2pm, Mon-Fri

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Electronic journals http//sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/
oxford/az
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OxLIP (Oxford University e-Resources)

• Portal to our electronic resources
• journal indexing and abstracting services,
  electronic reference works, e-journal packages,
  e-book collections, etc.
• Allows resources to be searched for by title,
  subject or keyword
• Also allows cross-searching of selected databases
  to find articles or other individual resources
• Enables easy remote access to most resources
  through signing-in using Oxford SSO.

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OxLIP for e-resourceshttp//oxlip-plus.ouls.ox.a
c.uk
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Please ask staff if you would like help!