Library Resources for Music / Adnoddau Llyfrgell ar Gyfer Cerdd

This biliingual (English / Welsh) powerpoint presentation briefly outlines some printed and electronic library resources for music students:

Library Resources for Music Students / Adnoddau Llyfrgell i Myfyrwyr Cerdd

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SENRGY Library Resources & Literature Reviews Presentation

This is the presentation for SENRGY postgraduates (forestry, land conservation, countryside management, etc) on library resources and literature reviews.

Library Resources and Literature Reviews for SENRGY Students

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Information Hunting in a Range of Sources: Handout

This is the handout for Friday afternoon’s working on information hunting.
I am putting handouts on my blog to try and cut down on printing costs.

InfoSearchingRangeSources

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E-Databases for Library Staff: Handout

This is the handout for Friday’s teaching session on e-databases for library staff.

EdatabasesforLibraryStaff

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Lists of Library E-Databases

At the library, we have a large range of electronic databases. They can all be accessed by university members when online at the university, or from home by logging to databases using your university user name and password. To find a database, go to the library e-database search page, type the name of a database you are looking for into the “Database Name” search box, and press submit.

This first list is some of the e-databases listed by type (e.g. bibiliographic databases, dictionaries, historical source materials, maps, newspapers, etc).

ListEDatabasesbyType

This second list is a separate list of most of the e-journal databases (excluding a few with only 1 or 2 journals in), with around 124 databases on the list. Each e-journal database is a colletion of journals from a different publisher (e.g. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, American Chemical Society); and some databases may contain only 1 or a few journals, whereas others contain 2000 journals. In most cases, the library only buys some of the journals in the database, so you will only be able to access articles in journals we buy, others will not open or will ask you for passwords. A few databases cover most subjects, and are therefore nearly always worth searching when you are hunting for articles for your research, and other contain journals for particular subjects (health, law, science, etc); so the list divides e-journal databases by subject.

ListEjournalDatabases

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November Information Skills Workshops

To register on these sessions email Penny Dowdney: p.j.dowdney@bangor.ac.uk with 1) your name, 2) your email address, 3) your level (1^st year, postgraduate, lecturer, etc), and 4) your subject area.

Please note that workshops book up quickly, but I will try and run extra workshops if demand is high!

Thu 12th Nov: Refworks for Beginners: BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Room 035, Deiniol Library, Bangor University

A two hour workshop for beginners, and people who have begun using Refworks but would like some more guidance.

Refworks is an internet based reference manager bought by the university library, which allows you to save your references to books, journals, articles and so forth online; access references from university and home; and use the references to print out reading lists or create bibliographies at the end of essays. Refworks can be used free of charge by university members for as long as they are at the university and afterwards. This workshop will show you how to register with Refworks, set up folders for references, save references to Refworks from different sources (books, electronic journals, etc), download the Write-N-Cite plug-in, access your references from Microsoft Word, and insert references into an essay and create a bibliography.

Thu 19th Nov: E-resources@Bangor: BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Room 035, Deiniol Library, Bangor University

A two hour workshop.

The Bangor University Libraries subscribe to a range of electronic resources, and this session will give you an overview of some of the things we get, and how to search them effectively. The workshop will look at online newspaper archives, electronic journal databases, which contain a range of full text journals; and at some of the bibliographic databases, which search a number of sources and list a range of useful articles (but do not contain full text articles).

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Library Info Skills Workshops: September 09

To register on these sessions please contact Penny Dowdney on p.j.dowdney@bangor.ac.uk. Please send her: 1) your name, 2) your email address, 3) your level (1^st year, postgraduate, research assistant, lecturer, etc), and 4) your subject area. Please also feel welcome to add any comments about your level of knowledge, and what you hope to get out of the workshop, and sessions can be tailored to meet your needs!

Thu 10^th Sept: Refworks for Beginners: BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Room 013, Deiniol Library, Bangor University

A two hour workshop for beginners, and people who have begun using Refworks but would like some more guidance.

Refworks is an internet based reference manager bought by the university library, which allows you to save your references to books, journals, articles and so forth online; access references from university and home; and use the references to print out reading lists or create bibliographies at the end of essays. Refworks can be used free of charge by university members for as long as they are at the university. This workshop will show you how to register with Refworks, set up folders for references, save references to Refworks from different sources (books, electronic journals, etc), download the Write-N-Cite plug-in, access your references from Microsoft Word, and insert references into an essay and create a bibliography.

Thu 17^th Sept: E-resources@Bangor: BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Room 013, Deiniol Library, Bangor University

A two hour workshop.

The Bangor University Libraries subscribe to a range of electronic resources, and this session will give you an overview of some of the things we get, and how to search them effectively. The workshop will look at online newspaper archives, electronic journal databases, which contain a range of full text journals; and at some of the bibliographic databases, which search a number of sources and list a range of useful articles (but do not contain full text articles).

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How can your food choices help the planet?

Today’s library resources find is an interesting article in a journal called Environmental Science and Technology. I discovered the journal whilst hunting in the American Chemical Society e-journals database for articles I could use as references, as I am teaching a session to chemistry students next week about Refworks (an online tool which lets you save book and article references).

The article, Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States, by Christopher L. Weber and H. Scott Mathews was published in April 2008, and is currently  the journal’s most read article. They compare the greenhouse gas emissions released by transporting food with greenhouse gas emissions released by food production, and conclude that producing red meat and dairy releases far more emissions than is produced by transporting food.

Therefore, they conclude that although eating locally is still a good environmental choice, the most effective way of reducing the climate impacts caused by your eating habits is to reduce the amount of red meat and dairy that you consume (I am a vegetarian, so that’s a good start, but I do like a bit of cheese…). I personally think that both dietary changes and eating locally are important, for various reasons, not just greenhouse gas emissions. Buying local food supports local food producers, the food often tastes good, and shopping in this way does contribute to reducing food transport pollution, even if the impact is small compared to food production impacts.

Members of Bangor University can find the article by selecting American Chemical Society from the list of Physical and Applied Science Databases, clicking on Environmental Science and Technology in the journals list, and then clicking on the tab at the top of the journal list of contents which says most read. At the moment, Food-Miles is at the top of this list.

If you’re not at the university, there are a lot of articles about the conclusions drawn in the paper available online, including this article on Food Miles versus Food Choice in The Ethicurean, which summarises the article, but also points out the importance of buying local food.

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Presentation on Library Electronic Resources for Theology Research Students

This is a copy of the presentation for theology research students given on Monday 22nd June, about useful library resources for your research. You will also find the TheologyHandout useful, as it contains extra information.

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Article in Library eResources: Using the Red Carpet Question “Who Are You Wearing?” to think about Global Clothing Trade

Whilst making a list of electronic journals on the subject of globalization in the library collections, I came across an interesting article. This resource can only be accessed by members of Bangor University.

The article, by Jon D. Carlson from the University of California, is called: “Who are you wearing? Using the red carpet question pedagogically.” It is in a 2009 issue of a journal called International Studies Perspectives, Vol 10, Issue 2, and on pages 198-215.

“Who are you wearing?” is a question celebrities are asked by reporters as they walk down the red carpet to glamorous award ceremonies and events such as the Oscars. Jon Carlson imaginatively used the question with undergraduates on a globalization module, getting them to look at the tags on clothing in their wardrobes, and see which countries clothes had been made in, and think about issues relating to the international clothing trade. “…the discussion in class with regard to the findings was quite animated: Who knew Israel made so many bras? Where are the Maldives anyway? Why do I have a shirt from Peru? What do you mean you make your own clothes? All told, the class had clothing from 68 countries or territories…” (Carlson, 2009, p203).

To access the article, go to the Bangor University library catalogue advanced search page, type in international and studies and perspectives in three of the search boxes, and change the material type further down the search page to journal. When the results return, click on International Studies Perspectives, and then click on Blackwell Full Collection, which will take you straight to the latest issue of the journal. Open Volume 10, Issue 2, and scroll down, the article is just below the heading Pedagogy and the Discipline.

Alternatively, if you are on the university site, you should be able to log straight in from this link: Who are you wearing? Using the red carpet question pedagogically.

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