The Webcat and other library resources

This presentation was used early in semester 1 2010-11 to introduce History first year student to the library catalogue (Webcat) and a range of other library resources

BSc Audiology Library Sessions, 2010

Induction and information skills sessions for first year undergraduate audiologists.

BSc Acoustics Library Induction, 2010

This lecture was given to new first year BSc Acoustic students in October 2010. It is an introduction to library resources including finding items from reading lists and online searching for journal articles.

MSc Audiology library induction, 2010

Library induction given to the postgraduate audiology students in October 2010. Session covers an introduction to the Hartley library including Library of Congress classification, finding items from reading lists, print journals, e-journals, search strategies including boolean operators and truncation and using online databases, in particular Web of Science.

MSc Sound & Vibration Library Induction, October 2010

Library induction and information skills for MSc Sound and Vibration, given in October 2010. As well as an introduction to the hartley Library and the LoC classification scheme, it covers finding material from reading lists, e-journals, making up search strategies and searching online databases using boolean operators.

How to make an inter library loan request

The guide takes you through the various steps required to request a book, journal article, conference paper, thesis or other documents that the library does not hold in stock.

University of Southampton Inter-Library Loan (ILL) Form

A form for obtaining material from other libraries or institutions. Any type of material included.

Social Computing Data Repository

Social Computing Data Repository hosts data from a collection of many different social media sites, most of which have blogging capacity. Some of the prominent social media sites included in this repository are BlogCatalog, Twitter, MyBlogLog, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, MySpace, LiveJournal, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Reddit, etc. The repository contains various facets of blog data including blog site metadata like, user defined tags, predefined categories, blog site description; blog post level metadata like, user defined tags, date and time of posting; blog posts; blog post mood (which is defined as the blogger's emotions when (s)he wrote the blog post); blogger name; blog post comments; and blogger social network.

Introduction to the Library for 1st Year ECS Students

There is an accompanying quiz in Blackboard on the INFO1010 page, and a link to a survey. (Look under Course Documents)

Timeline of Computing

Actually this is a timeline of Learning Technology but has all teh important dates in it

Programming Principles: The Java Library

In this session we point you at the Java Library, and go into some more details on how Strings work. We also introduce the HashMap class (a very useful type of collection).

Green IT (includes High Powered Computing) - background reading

Background reading for coursework to prepare a technical report as part of the orientation phase. These items are business documents (i.e. grey literature) which might be read as a prelude or complement to finding information in peer reviewed academic publications. grey literature links and articles to be used in preparation of technical report. See also overview guidance document for this assignment http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/8017/

INFO2009 - Security Issues in home computing

By antipirates

Worksheet for library bibliometrics training

This is used in our Gradbook / Staffbook courses and covers the key web addresses and guidance for activities.

Hartley Library Search Planner

This 2-page planner will help students search databases more effectively using Boolean logic