Anna 0:13
In this third podcast in the series, we'll be exploring your library a little further and talking about some other ways to find relevant resources other than by browsing the shelves or by using Library Search. We'll be exploring two key features of the library landscape. Firstly, library subject guides, and secondly, online resource lists. These are both very important access points for discovering resources from our collections in order to support your assignment research. We will also find out about another feature of your new library environment when we meet one of our academic liaison librarians. We will talk to Rosie about Subject Guides and resource lists as well as asking her about the role of the academic liaison librarian and find out about the support the team provides to students. But before we meet Rosie, let's tell you a little bit about our subject guides. Subject Guides can be really useful starting points for exploring collections relevant to your path of study they will link to specialist resources including journal databases relevant to that subject. Remember that there may be more than one guide that relates to your research and all guides are available to explore no matter what subjects you're studying. Your academic liaison librarians have created subject guides for all the subject areas taught at Falmouth. An extra students can find subject LibGuides covering all courses by the University of Exeter library website. The effects plus Library website has links to both sets of Subject Guides. Just select your university and you can easily find your way to your subject guides. Found the students will select their department to discover the key related guides. We've created a video introducing you to the subject guides which can be found on our library pathway resources. But whatever course she was studying, we'd recommend familiarising yourself with relevant subject guides before you need to use them. So do take time to explore before you have any assignment deadlines looming. Remember key landmarks in the library landscape. And another important access point for relevant resources will be your resource lists. These are managed by the library but can be found on your virtual learning environment. So found the students can find their resource lists on the learning space and extra students can find resource lists on le these resource lists are usually created by teaching staff and may include a variety of resources including books chapters, journal articles, and a range of multimedia content. We check the resources included to see if we have access to them in our collection, and by essential titles were possible. This means that you can often link directly to a resource if it's electronic, but if it's in print, you'll be directed to the holdings information about a resource so that you can find it in the library. It makes accessing and engaging with your key reading for your module so much easier than a static list of resources. Academic Staff sometimes organise resources in weekly or themed groupings to so that you can find relevant and timely content much more easily. Now, as promised, we will talk to Rosie Ennis who's the academic liaison librarian in the Academy of music and theatre arts. Hi, Rosie. Thanks for agreeing to be interviewed today. Firstly, could you tell us a bit about your role? What is an academic liaison librarian?
Anna 3:32
Okay, your academic liaison librarian is your point of contact for the library. Each course has one and it will be useful to know who yours is we aim to provide a sort of a bridge between the practice of your subject and the practice of research. So helping you explore your subjects through the library's physical and digital collections. We work with your academics and other teams within the library so that you can have access that you need to resources to inspire your creative practice and also inform your intellectual engagement with your subject. So perhaps you could also tell us a little bit about the support that you and your colleagues offer. Students.
Anna 4:12
What sort of support can you offer?
Anna 4:14
Yes, your academic liaison librarian is here to support you through all the stages of your degree, and we're easily contactable by email or phone and all that information is on the library website. We offer a drop in sessions where a librarian are on hand to help you with research writing, referencing that kind of thing. And you don't need an appointment for that at all. You don't need an appointment, you just turn up. So yes. Are there any other ways that you would provide support for students? Yes, Subject Guides are a really important part of the library. website. So these will help you identify the resources that are really useful and relevant for your subject. So do have a look at those. We also work with your academics to deliver sessions in your modules and so trying to identify when it's going to be most useful for you to have more information about researching your subject. So hopefully students will see you at some stage or an academic liaison librarian in one of their session.
Anna 5:15
If you had any top tips for new students starting university now, what advice might you offer?
Anna 5:21
I think the first top tip has got to be find out who your academic liaison librarian is. That's on the subject guides. Our names and contact details are there. Secondly, just feed your curiosity for your subject. You're here because you're passionate about your subject. So immerse yourself in the library collections. And find out a bit more about what's on offer through those subject guides.
Anna 5:48
So thinking about Subject Guides, would you be able to talk us through some of the resources you've included in your own subject pages and the value of those to new students?
Anna 5:59
Yeah, I'll give you a flavour of what's on the music and sound subject guys. One of the resources is called rocks back pages, which is a fantastic resource for music journalism. There's some really great titles in there. An archive of titles that include NME, Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, and there's a whole load more, including audio interviews with artists in that same subject guide. We've also got Bloomsbury popular music for browsing for artists, albums, music, eras, and music genres across the globe. There's also an encyclopaedia in there. And the other things that are quite popular other timelines and the world map so you get some contextual information.
Anna 6:39
In the academic liaison team, you oversee the promotion and the development of the Tallis resource lists, which we've been talking about in this podcast. Could you tell us a little bit about how you think they're useful to students?
Anna 6:52
These are the list that you will see embedded in the modules in the learning space. So every module has got a task resource lists that link you to the resources that are available for your module. The benefit for you as a student is that it links you directly to the resource, so this could be a digitised chapter of a book and ebook or journal article or video or whatever. So straight from the learning space. The list will link you directly to the results. Thanks, Rosie.
Anna 7:21
And could you share with us your favourite part of the library either space or the collection?
Anna 7:29
But I quite like the journey as an area. I like to flick through the latest journals and magazines, interesting ideas and projects and events are happening. There's also at the moment, we've got a small selection of new magazine titles, just one offs and that show what's trending. So that's
Anna 7:46
interesting. Thanks, Rosie. Before we finish, is there anything else that you'd like to share with students?
Anna 7:53
Well, there's quite a lot keeping it fairly short. I do want to emphasise that we have the most amazing video collection ended up just leaving it's both a physical collection of old VHS DVDs and blu ray but it's also a very rich and growing streaming collection. And to supplement this we have access to something worth knowing about because once you sign up you don't need to just hope you don't get three again because it has UK TV and radio channels, an archive of broadcast programmes and is on the library website and links to both hopefully.
Anna 8:33
Thanks, Rosie. So in today's podcast, we have introduced you to three new methods to add your research number one was your library subject line, please. Module resourceless. And number three, your trusty academic liaison librarian because you remember though, that the first two entry points for discovery and exploration and we hope that as you become more confident in your approach to research, you will be able to use a range of tools and tools to help you caught journeys of discovery.
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