Request to have library materials (books, online reading, films, images, music, and more), or put your own materials, on reserve at either library. Also, use the library's electronic reserves services to post class readings online.

Here's how to get started:

Book Reserve (2 ways to put books on reserve)

1. Read the info at: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/reserves/resbook.html,
   then fill out a form at: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/reserves/form.html
   OR
2. Come in to the library (where you want reserve items held) and fill out the forms in person

ERes (Electronic reserves)

Read the info at: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/reserves/eresltr.html,
then fill out a form at: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/reserves/eresform.html

MORE INFO about reserves at: http//library.ucsc.edu/services/reserves

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LIBRARY INSTRUCTION

Here's how to request a class:

Upper-division and graduate courses:
Contact the librarian in your subject area at: http://library.ucsc.edu/infonotes/Coll.html

Lower-division courses in Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences (including Writing 2 and Core 80B):
Fill out a form at: http://library.ucsc.edu/instruction/request.html

Science and Engineering courses:
Fill out a form at: http://library.ucsc.edu/instruction/request.html

FOR MORE INFO

Annette Marines (amarines [at] ucsc.edu), McHenry Library Instruction Coordinator

Danielle Kane (kaneda [at] ucsc.edu), S&E Library Instruction Coordinator

Instruction & Outreach Page http://library.ucsc.edu/instruction/ (includes links to Request Form, NetTrail Library Research Tutorial, and Drop-In Workshops)

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BORROWING LIBRARY MATERIALS

Info about library accounts and borrowing is available at: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/circ/circ_librarycard.html#ucsc_fac

• Films or music http://library.ucsc.edu/fmc/#checkingout
• Language and other multimedia http://library.ucsc.edu/merc/misc/about.html
• Slide & digital images http://library.ucsc.edu/slides/policies.html
• Maps (i.e. classroom wall maps) http://library.ucsc.edu/maps/wallmaps.html

For items not available at UCSC:

• Recommend a book at http://library.ucsc.edu/collect/recommend.html
• Or, request it from another library at http://library.ucsc.edu/services/ill/

ONLINE DATABASES & RESOURCES
The library subscribes to hundreds of online databases and resources, which include subject indexes and library catalogs as well as online journals and electronic books. To learn more about databases and resources in your discipline contact a subject librarian or Ask-A-Librarian. For more information on logging in from off campus visit http://oca.ucsc.edu/login. Find links by type of resources below:

—Denotes Off-Campus Access for UCSC Faculty, Staff and Students only

Books

• CRUZCAT (UCSC)
• Melvyl (UC-wide)
• WorldCat (National union catalog)
• Books in Print from Bowker
• Note that many discipline-specific databases also index books, for example: PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and more ()

Articles

• UCSC list of databases - http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/eresources/bytool/ArticleDatabases
• Databases by discipline
  • http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/find_articles.html
  • http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/eresources/bytool/SubjectGuides/
• Multidisciplinary databases: Web of Science, CSA Illumina, Expanded Academic, Periodicals Index Online and more
• Full-text databases: JSTOR, Project Muse and more

Electronic Scholarship - http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/virtref.html#electronic

Encyclopedias
Subject encyclopedias are often overlooked as sources. However, they are excellent works of scholarly and authoritative knowledge. They provide students, who are delving into new topics, with a scholarly lens by which to start examining topics. In particular, encyclopedias provide topical overviews that familiarize students with different issues within that subject (useful when students are deciding on a topic), new keywords (especially useful for searching in databases), and bibliographies for further reading specific to that topic.

• UCSC list of online encyclopedias - http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/eresources/bytool/Encyclopedias
• Links to online encyclopedias in CRUZCAT
• Recommended encyclopedias by subject: http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/eresources/bytool/SubjectGuides/

Newspapers - http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/eresources/bytool/Newspapers

Images (May require )

• Digital Image Resources - http://library.ucsc.edu/slides/image_resources.html
• Additional image resources - http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/eresources/bytool/ImageResources

Primary sources - How to guides at http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/ provide information on Primary Sources, Government Information, and Statistics

Bibliographic Software and Support

• EndNote Web
• EndNote software support - http://library.ucsc.edu/science/endnote/index.html
• Zotero (Free Firefox Extension)

Note: Research assisstance is available in person at the library as well as by chat, telephone or e-mail. Visit Ask-A-Librarian for more information.

BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON PEDAGOGY

For books, try the following searches in CRUZCAT, Melvyl, or Worldcat:

• Note that in order to see the newest books in your list of results in CRUZCAT use "system sorted" to select "reverse year," then press "sort"
• Keywords such as Pedagogy, Curricula, or Critical Thinking with the phrase Higher Education will help you get started
• The following subject headings are more specific, but may also be usefult:
  • Academic Libraries -- Relations with Faculty and Curriculum (Shameless plug!)
  • Academic Writing -- Study and Teaching
  • Autobiography -- Authorship
  • Cheating (Education)
  • College Teaching
  • College Teaching -- United States
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Critical Thinking -- Study and Teaching
  • Criticism -- Authorship
  • Criticism -- Study and Teaching
  • Curriculum Change
  • Curriculum Planning
  • Discussion -- Study and Teaching
  • Education, Curricula
  • Education, Higher
  • Education, Higher -- Curricula
  • English Language -- Composition and Exercises -- Study and Teaching
  • English Language -- Rhetoric -- Study and Teaching
  • English Language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign Speakers
  • Group Work in Education
  • Interdisciplinary Approach in Education
  • Portfolios in Education
  • Reading (Higher Education)
  • Student Service Volunteers in Social Service
  • Universities and Colleges -- Curricula
  • Your discipline or subject -- Study and Teaching, For example: Sociology -- Study and Teaching

For on-line Journals on the subject of Education and Teaching try the following:

• Full text journals on the subject of Education are available from JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/browse#Education -- Includes titles such as Art Education, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, College Composition and Communication, and more..), Project Muse (click on Education at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/subject.html), Education: A SAGE Full-text Collection
• For a comprehensive search, use the database in your academic discipline or subject to find articles on teaching. For example in Historical Abstracts search the keyphrase "teaching history"
• Additional examples of on-line journal titles include:
  • Feminist Teacher
  • International Journal for Educational Integrity
  • Rhetoric Review
  • Rhetoric Society Quarterly

REQUESTING SOFTWARE ON LIBRARY COMPUTERS

In order to help students view or comple online class assignments in the library, it's sometimes necessary to add special software or plugins to the computers in the library. With advance notice, the library will make every effort to add the appropriate software or plugins. Please submit your request at: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/software_req/.

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