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learning resources - a guide for teaching staff
 

Library opening hours

Please use the following link for information on Library opening hours.

Staff borrowing entitlements

As a member of Newman University College staff, you are entitled to borrow a total of 30 items at any one time. Standard loan items are issued to staff for 90 days and all other items may be borrowed in accordance with the loan period indicated for the item e.g. 7 day loan. Please note that fines will be charged for overdue items.

Library collections

Please use the following link for information on Library collections.


Who should I contact? - Liaison Librarians

In order to ensure effective liaison between the Library and the teaching departments, the Library has a team of 'liaison librarians'. Each subject area has a designated contact from amongst the qualified Library staff. Where possible, we try to ensure that the subject contact has a first degree relevant to the subject areas with which they are working.

The role of the Library 'subject contact' is to:

  • provide a formal link between the Library and the designated department
  • co-ordinate the library activity relating to the department
  • advise on the selection and ordering of relevant library materials (books, journals, electronic information sources etc.)
  • provide training for both staff and students in the use of relevant information tools and sources

The designated liaison librarians are:

David Crozier - ICT, Management, Psychology and Counselling, Theology, Combined Honours

Deniz Bilgen - Children, Young People & Families, Early Childhood Education & Care, Youth Work

Jane Faux - Initial Teacher Education, EBITT, Education & Professional Studies, School Experience Collection

Katie Bennett - English, PE & Sport Studies

Lydia Gibbs - Creative Arts, History, International Education, Local History Collection, Newman Collection

Mary Flower - Reference Collection, Study Skills

 

How do I order books and other resources for library stock?

The principal aim of the Library is to support the learning, teaching and research activities of Newman University College. Consequently, the Library aims to make available material included on module reading lists, whether books, periodicals, or electronic materials. For further information please refer to the Collection Development Policy.

In addition, where appropriate, the Library aims to develop its collections to support the research activity of the academic departments.

Order requests can be placed at any time during the year using an order form. Please provide the following information if known:
  • full bibliographic details - author, title, publisher, date of publication, and ISBN if known
  • number of copies
  • preferred loan type (e.g. standard, week, short loan, reference)
  • subject area or programme to which the item relates (History, Art, PGCE etc.)

If appropriate, obtain authorisation for requesting the order either from your Head of Subject, Subject Leader, or Programme Leader. Authorisation should be evidenced either by:

  • initials on the order form
  • indicate in the e-mail

Here are some links to publisher and bookseller sites which may be useful.

Abebooks
Online gateway to 'new, used, rare and out-of-print books including textbooks' via 13,000 independent booksellers

Bookbrain
Helps you to find the cheapest online supplier of a book

Books for Academics
Free service for students and staff, based at University of Exeter, includes A-Z directory of links to publishers sites and catalogues, subject listings, search form and links to online bookshops and related sites

Publishers
Links to publishers worldwide

Periodical subscriptions

Members of teaching staff are encouraged (together with the Library subject contact) to review periodical holdings relevant to their Subject Area and recommend new subscriptions where appropriate. Please complete an order form which should be authorised by the Head of Subject.

Inter-Library Loans

The Library aims to ensure that, wherever possible, copies of all core materials required to support the learning and teaching activities of Newman will be available in the Library. This commitment is sustained by the:

  • systematic purchasing of all material listed in module bibliographies (as indicated for Course and / or Module Approval and Review Panels)
  • maintenance of a relevant Periodical Collection
  • development of a Short Loan Collection, which includes licensed copies of material not otherwise held in the Library (e.g. journal articles, extracts from monographs and out-of-print items etc.)
  • provision of administrative support for the creation of licensed 'course readers'.

In addition to these services, the Library will obtain copies of books or articles not held by the Library in accordance with the ILL policy.

Information Skills Support

The Library aims to contribute to the creation of a supportive learning environment for students. Members of professional Library staff offer a range of user education workshops to support students in the development of information, IT and research skills.

Sessions range from general induction talks and tours, to focused workshops on literature searching, using bibliographic indexes and databases, and accessing and evaluating Internet resources. In addition we are very willing to hold sessions for distinct categories of students with specific needs e.g. mature, part-time or foreign exchange students.

Sessions can be either scheduled within the timetable, or offered at other times convenient to the students concerned.

To arrange a session please download and complete an Information skills session request form and send it to your Liaison librarian.

E-resources – knowing what you can and can’t do

Whether you’re using our e-resources for research, or for teaching, it’s important to understand the license terms attached, and a good starting point is the Library’s Electronic Resource Licenses webpage

The key feature of this webpage is an easy to use chart of license terms for most of our individual resources. At a glance you can see the main license conditions attached – such as if you can save or print from a given database.

There is some useful guidance for academic staff – for instance, whether you can use content from a specific database within a commercial publication.

The page also includes general advice about license terms, as well as a link to the full license for each resource.

Copyright Awareness - Issues for Higher Education

It is likely that during the course of preparing and/or delivering your teaching you will consider distributing photocopies of published material to groups of students. In so doing, it is imperative that Copyright legislation is respected. The following notes provide basic guidance on copyright issues and give an indication of what is and is not acceptable under the terms of the licence (the 'blanket licence') held by Newman, particularly in relation to the creation of multiple copies.

The 'Blanket Licence'


Details of the copyright agreement (the 'blanket licence') and its implications for teaching and learning in Higher Education are contained in the Higher Education Copying Accord. A copy of this agreement can be viewed on the CLA website or is obtainable from Newman Library. However the key points to note are as follows:

The 'blanket licence' does permit:

  • routine single copying of material for most purposes, and
  • multiple copying of material held in the institution for "ad hoc distribution" to students - i.e. infrequent and irregular distribution of multiple copies occasionally during a module.

The 'blanket licence' does not permit:

  • the creation and distribution of course / study packs, or
    the systematic copying of material week by week - which in effect amounts to the creation of a study pack

Please note that a course pack is defined by the CLA as:

"a compilation of material (whether bound or loose-leaf) of four or more photocopied extracts, from one or more sources, totalling over 25 pages of copyright material, designed to support a module or course of study, irrespective of whether materials are copied at the start of the course or at intervals during the duration of the course, or are placed in the short loan collection, for systematic copying by students....".

It is important to note that, legitimate multiple copies for 'occasional' distribution in teaching sessions, may only be made from the following categories of material:

  • material for which the original is held by Newman University College
  • material which has been obtained from another Library through the legitimate 'copyright cleared' channels
  • material for which copyright has been waived - e.g. certain government publications; written permission of copyright holder etc

When preparing handouts and materials to support your teaching it is never legitimate to make multiple copies from:

  • texts produced by publishers who have not participated in the licence agreement - such works are 'excluded' from the permissions of the licence,
  • material which belongs to you personally - i.e. has been purchased by you
  • material which you have obtained in person from another institution - e.g. a photocopy of a journal article

In the second two instances, the original source has not been purchased by the institution in which the multiple copies are being distributed and is not therefore covered by the 'blanket licence'.

Coping with Copyright


In the light of the limitations of the copyright licence, the following methods of increasing access to material should be considered:

  • Wherever possible, refer students to original sources held in the Library
  • Use the Library's Short Loan Collection to give access to legitimate, copyright-cleared copies of material
  • Use the Copyright Licensing Agency's Rapid Clearance System (CLARCS) to obtain permission for the creation of licensed study packs. Full details available from the CLA website and from the Library web page on course packs.