Essential Library Skills

BSc Psychology ProgrammesJudy McSorley Senior Liaison Librarian for Psychology 10.2011

At the end of this session you will be able to:

Find a book or journal

Request and renew books

Access and use Learning Resources online help, information and

materials

Where are the psychology books?

abnormal developmental

educational health occupational

social environmental

psychotherapy intelligence

forensic personality

neuropsychology clinical

theoretical organisational

Where are the psychology books?

Psychology is a cross-disciplinary subject.

Books on the various aspects of psychology will be shelved in all areas of the library.

To find specific titles in their own particular locations it is essential that you can use the Library Catalogue effectively.

BooksHow are they arranged?

Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)Middlesex University campus libraries (Hendon, and Trent Park) use the Dewey system.

Each subject has its own subject number as follows:

100 Philosophy and psychology

300 Social sciences

400 Language

500 Science, maths and statistics

600 Technology

800 Literature

900 Geography and history

Shelf order:specific,within psychology

150 Psychology

153 Conscious mental processes

153.1 Learning

153.12 Memory

153.13 Types of memory

153.132 Visual memory

The wide range of psychology:

Subject Shelf No. Floor

clinical 616.89 3

developmental 155.4 1

educational 370.15 2

forensic 364.3 2

health 610.19 3

neuropsychology 612.82 3

occupational 158.7 1

psychotherapies 616.8914 3

personality 155.2 1

social 302 1

Reading lists: book or article

author date title of book

Barnes, R.(1995). Successful study fordegrees. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

edition publisher

A reference for a book

Reading lists: book or article

author date title of article

Ellis, N et al. (2007) Exercise interventions as an

adjunct therapy for psychosis: a critical review,

British Journal of Clinical Psychology,

vol.46, no. 1, pp. 95-111

part journal title volume page nos

A reference for a journal article

The Library CatalogueThe library catalogue lists all the material (books, journals etc.) held in all the Middlesex University libraries.

You may borrow from any campus library or, using the catalogue, you may request books from another campus to be sent here for you to collect.

http://library.mdx.ac.uk

The Library Catalogue

The catalogue includes several different searchtypes.

Each is useful depending on the information available to start with.

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Activity: (10minutes & in pairs)

Try the following 3 examples and decide which of the listed search types is most appropriate for each – using the information provided.

• Find “Forensic psychology : concepts, debates and practice”

• Find a book on cognitive development

• Find a neuropsychology book by Neil Martin

The Library Catalogue http://library.mdx.ac.uk

The Library Catalogue

Best options would be:-

For the first, where the title is fully

known, use Title A-Z

For the second where a topic is

known, use Title Keyword

Where a part title and author are

known, use General Keyword

The Library Catalogue

The Library Catalogue

Click to request if no copies are available

Making a RequestUse your ID/ student number & your date of birth as “Pin”

Renewing

Use the My Account option to see what items you have on loan and to renew them.

NB You will not be able to renew

books which are requested

Renewing

Select titles for renewal then click the Renew button

Journals

How are print journals arranged?

Print Journals are arranged:-

Alphabetically by the exact title of the journal.

Within each title, journals are arranged:

overall by date : volume number : part/issue number

The vast majority of our journals are

now provided electronically and

accessed through the Library Catalogue

Print journals are located on the

2nd floor in the Law Wing

Print/Online? Check the Catalogue

Online only

Print/Online? Check the Catalogue

Online and print formats. Note varying date ranges.

myUniHub for alternative access to the catalogue etc.Logging in here enables access to electronic resources without further authentication.

Electronic Resources Login

Accessing resources without going through myUniHub may require frequent logins using your usual IT ID and password. Use the orange link to the Middlesex screen

Electronic Resources Login

Setting the “cookie” as described below will open the Middlesex login screen more immediately when accessing e-resources subsequently

Quiz.......15 minutes

Library and IT Support Web Page http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/

The new UniHub links to Library and IT under the Your study tab. There are a number of links from here including one to the Library Subject Guides

Library and IT Support: Databases

From http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/ :

scroll down to Journals & E-Resources then to Databases for

PsycINFO

Library and IT Support: Google Scholar

Google Scholar will find academic articles related to specific topics but results are citation only, with very few full text versions.Additionally not all journals are necessarily peer reviewed.

Library and IT Support: Subject Guides

Library and IT Support Web Page http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/ - start here