Archive for the ‘Question of the Week’ Category
Friday, November 6th, 2009
What is the repository?
The repository is an off-campus storage facility where some library materials that are used less frequently are stored. The UGA Libraries own so many books, journals, and other items (more than 4 million) that we can't fit them all into campus libraries!
How do I request delivery of ...
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
A student asked if it was possible to browse our collection of DVDs; she was looking for documentaries on a subject, but didn't know of any specific titles, and a keyword search of GIL seemed to return only books.
In fact, you can limit a search of the GIL catalog by ...
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Pay a fine:
In person, using cash or check, at the Main Library, Science Library or Curriculum Materials Library Circulation Desks.
In person or by phone or by phone using a credit card at Main (706-542-3256) or Science (706-542-4535).
In person using Bulldog Bucks at Main or Science.
By mail (check only) to ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
What's RefWorks?
RefWorks is a web-based tool for managing your bibliography - easy to use and accessible from any computer. Keep track of all your citations in RefWorks and format papers with ease using Write & Cite in Microsoft Word. UGA has a campus wide subscription to RefWorks; sign in with ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Faculty may put book chapters or articles on electronic reserve. Search the GIL catalog e-reserves by Instructor, Department, or Class number to find them. You cannot access an electronic reserve item without a special password, which is set by the instructor and usually handed out in ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
New graduate students have a high level of interest in finding and getting copies of dissertations - maybe so they can see what others are doing!
Searching for Dissertations
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (University of Georgia) - in GALILEO
Search for dissertations and theses completed at UGA since 1999; some are available ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Wait, what's a citation?
A citation is the information about a scholarly resource: author's name, title, source (journal or book or whatever), page numbers, year. It's the information you include in the bibliography when you write a paper, and it's the information a GALILEO database will give you when you do ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
What is the Bindery?
Sometimes you will see "bindery" listed as a location in the online GIL catalog. This most often occurs with print journals, and most often appears in the spring. Why? A print journal may arrive at the library quarterly, monthly, or even more often than that. The individual ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
You are off-campus, searching in the GIL catalog, and find an e-book you want to look at. But when you click through you can't get in!
Getting to NetLibrary e-books from off campus takes a few steps.
First, go to NetLibrary through GALILEO.
You'll get asked for the GALILEO password (what's that?) - ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
An old friend who is a faculty member at another school mused to me (on Facebook!): "Actually, it has occurred to me that there really ought to be a good central place to go for scanned scholarly books that are out from under copyright...the Zygouries and Palace of Minos volumes ...
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