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Tag Archives: user education
Discovering music at MusiCB3
It has been a busy couple of weeks at MusiCB3, with the start of term and the beginning of a new academic year! We’ve enjoyed meeting lots of new music students at our library induction tours, both at the UL … Continue reading
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Tagged LibGuides, Music at CUL, Music at the Pendlebury, social media, user education
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Discovering music collections
As this year’s welcome to our new students, I would like to touch very briefly on ways of discovering and exploring music collections in Cambridge and beyond. Some of this might sound familiar to those of you who have recently … Continue reading
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Tagged Music at CUL, Music at the Pendlebury, user education
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What did Voyager do for us?
In January librarians across Cambridge will be using a different Library Management System. Voyager has been a (generally!) faithful servant for the last 15 years, and it’s time to move on to a new system that’s better able to cope … Continue reading
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Tagged card catalogues, cataloguing, iDiscover, Library Management Systems, Newton, searching, user education
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Coming to a library near you…
So, you’ve been away for the summer, you come back to university, and what do you find? Your friendly catalogue of choice, LibrarySearch, has vanished and there’s a brand new catalogue iDiscover instead. iDiscover has been introduced across the UL, … Continue reading
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Tagged catalogues, iDiscover, LibGuides, library use, new year at Cambridge, user education
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Finding the right notes
It’s getting to that time of year again when we start to plan the user education sessions for the new intake of music undergraduates. As always, the trick is not to re-invent the wheel, but to look at what others … Continue reading
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Tagged IAML, induction, research skills, students, user education
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How to find journal articles… and anything else really
It’s that time of year again where many librarians are frantically preparing for the start of the new academic year. Every year I find myself updating and revamping what is partly the same information; style and format changes, interfaces are … Continue reading
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Tagged bibliographical database, e-resources, periodicals, user education
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