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UCL SSEES Library - Notes for Students
Using the UCL SSEES Library - The Basics
| Finding recommended reading |
Always start by looking in Moodle - there should be a link from each Moodle course to its associated reading list. The title of each reading is blue and underlined - click on this to see more details, including a link to the library catalogue (Explore) for the item, and in some cases, a link to the full text. If you can't find a reading list in Moodle your lecturer may not have set one up: ask them in the first instance.
Most books on SSEES reading lists will be in SSEES Library, often in several copies. See the Library Guide leaflet for floorplans and a list of all the shelf locations - copies are available on the Ground Floor of the Library. Some books might be held in other UCL libraries.
| Electronic journals, databases and useful websites |
You can search electronic journals, databases and other electronic resources via Explore. If you cannot find the title you need, look at the A-Z lists of e-journals and databases on the Library Services web site. Also, try the Directory of Internet Resources for websites covering the SSEES region.
| Finding printed journal articles |
Start by looking for the journal title in Explore. If SSEES Library has the journal you need it might be downstairs on the periodicals shelves. Journals (periodicals) are shelved in alphabetical order by title, and there is a separate reading area for current issues. Some older journals are kept in store, so you need to request them online.
SSEES Library has a large research collection of films, documentaries and news programmes. There is a detailed online catalogue of this material. Videos and DVDs may only be viewed in the Library. UCL Main Library has a collection of feature films for loan.
Take them to the issue desk with your ticket. Undergraduates and Masters students may have up to ten books from UCL libraries on loan at a time. If books are on reading lists they are often limited to overnight, 3-day or 7-day loan to make sure everybody on a course gets a chance to use them. At SSEES Library you may borrow three 7-day loan books, two 3-day loan books and two overnight loan books at a time. The Library charges fines for overdue books so don't forget to bring them back on time or renew them. Overnight loans can only be lent after 5pm and must be back by 10.15 the next morning (or on Monday morning if you borrow them on Friday.)
To renew books sign-in to Explore using the barcode number on your ticket and your PIN. (Ask at an issue desk if you don't know what this is.) Choose My Account and you will be given the option to renew your books.
If all the copies of the book you need are on loan you can request a copy via Explore. The reader who has the book will be asked to return it to the Library, although if they have only just borrowed it they will be allowed to keep it a few days.
| What to do if you can't find a book |
Check Explore to see if all the copies are on loan. If so then request (reserve) a copy online. If not, check that they belong on the open shelves. We have to keep some books at Stores and they will need to be requested, either at the issue desk or online. If the book should be on the open shelves and isn't, it might be on a reading desk anywhere in the Library, or on one of the shelving trolleys, on the reservation shelves on the Lower Ground Floor, or by the photocopiers. It might also be on the wrong shelf. If you still cannot find the book ask in the Enquiries Office - if we can't find it either we will start searching systematically.
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You may sit at any of the desks in SSEES Library except the carrels reserved for research students. You may take books from one floor to another. The reading areas, computer clusters and multimedia room are meant for quiet study. If you would like to talk please go down to the ground floor where there is a casual seating area where you are welcome to talk; or book the small meeting room on the first floor, which is suitable for up to five people working together.
You have access to all the centrally managed computer clusters within UCL. The nearest are in the Main Library, the Science Library and the Institute of Archaeology. In addition SSEES provides a cluster just for its students on the first floor of the SSEES Library, and a separate cluster for graduate students with its entrance off the School staircase on the first floor. You have a quota for free printing which you can use in the centrally managed clusters, or by logging in to Remote Cluster WTS in the SSEES clusters. There are also two SSEES printers in each cluster which take the same card you use to pay for photocopying. There is wireless access for laptops throughout the Library - see the Wireless web pages for information on connecting to it.
For further information on using computers in the SSEES Library, see Notes for Students - Computing Facilities.
| Photocopying and printing |
There are photocopiers on the Lower Ground Floor and the First Floor. Cards that operate them, along with SSEES printers and the microfilm reader printer, can be bought at the issue desk. They are then recharged on the Lower Ground Floor. Please remember to bring the right money with you - the recharging unit takes one and two pound coins.
Please help us make the Library a comfortable place for all students to study. You will be asked to move to the Ground Floor if you are disturbing other people by talking. Mobile phones must be switched off or set to silent in all the public areas apart from the ground floor and the staircases from first to second. You may bring bottled water into the Library, but no other food or drink.
If you need help at any time ask a member of the Library staff. There is always someone on duty on the Ground Floor.
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This page last modified
Thursday 20 September 2012.
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