Charlottes Library Session

Today Charlotte cam in from the library she taught us how to look for books/ reference material/ and how to go about this, first you need a subject area. topic to look at, and think about the keywords linked to this. You can use the library catalogue or other ones (which she gave us).

She gave us some exercises to do-

• One of them was look through DAA- this is on the arts institute webpage at www.aib.ac.uk/eresources
• Select Databases on the right hand menu
• An A-Z list of catalogues appear, select Design and applied arts index, (DAA).

You can use an advanced search too, and refine your search, look at research results, and show the full record of the book- which is also useful for bibliographies.

Two was Art Full text so you back to the a-z list click on art full text, this is more of an advanced search, type what you want and there are different types of results

• FULL TEXT-Read the whole article online
• FULL TEXT PDF--The whole article as it appears in the original journal with pcture.
• References to articles and journals. Checks the library have a copy. Click on the blue title link to get the source details.
  

She explained this very thoroughly- though this is brief, but the session really helped me understand how to use the databases and I thought it was really well organised, and if we got stuck she helped us, and she had the time to go to everyone, which isn't the case as always.