This document provides an overview of library skills and resources at the University of Winchester Library. It outlines key services and resources including how to borrow books, access electronic journals and databases, use interlibrary loans, and get research assistance from library staff. It also describes facilities for quiet study, group work spaces, printing/copying, and borrowing DVDs. Contact information is provided for any library questions. The goal is to help students effectively use the library to support their coursework and research needs.

1. Library Skills
2012
Siân Hewlett MCLIP, Assistant Librarian HSS

2. Why use the Library?
• Pass your Course
• Access to electronic resources
• Space for quiet study
•Expertise of Library Staff

3. • Catalogue  search & reserve
• Catalogue  specific journal articles
• Databases  journal articles on a
particular topic
• Inter Library Loans
• Virtual Library Tour (Library Services)

4. Borrowing books
Cottrell, S. (2008).
The Study skills handbook (3rd ed.).
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

7. Author, Title

9. Shelf mark =
378.17/COT

10. Dewey Decimal
Classification

11. Reserve

12. Topics and Advanced Search

14. How many books?
15 x Standard Loan (4 weeks)
5 x 7 day Loan
4 x 3 day Loan OR 4 hour Loan
***Fines for late items***
Renew: phone 01962 827306
email: Libenquiries@winchester.ac.uk
In person
My Account

16. The number on the back of your
Student ID / Library Card.

18. Inter Library Loans
£2 per
• £2 request
Normally arrives
within 3 – 10 days

19. The Library Website

23. Search for a specific journal article
Higgins, D. H. (2012). Which Augustine?
The Naming of the Abbey and Church of St
Augustine, Bristol. Journal of Ecclesiastical
History, 63(1), 18 – 30.

30. Journal articles
about a Topic

35. Virtual Library Tour
using the Library and
Library services

36. Need somewhere quiet to study?

37. Silent Study Area – next to
the Windows on each floor

38. Clearing you Desk –
please use the
White Trolleys

39. Need a space to do group
work? – our Study Rooms

40. Keys are
available from
the Enquiry
Desk
The Study
Rooms can not
be booked in
advance

41. The Library Training
Room – Middle Floor
Can be used for group work – check
the door for prior bookings

42. Need to
photocopy or
print?

44. Want to rent a
DVD?
Only £1 for 3 nights!

45. Want to read a
Newspaper?
Daily papers on
the Lowest Floor

46. Have any
Library
Questions?
Please ask at
the Enquiry
Desk

47. Any questions?
sian.hewlett@winchester.ac.uk
universityofwinchestermartialroselibrary
@UniWinLibrary