Vol. 1 Issue 1 Library FREE Matters. Your Orientation Handbook NEED TO KNOW LIBRARY INFO MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF LIBRARIES FUN GAMES AND QUIZZES + MORE Welcome/ Bienvenue Featuring tips to make your experience at McGill full of support, wonder, and discovery . OME LC TO E T Y W H R E L I B R A Welcome! You are finally beginning your journey at McGill University, and we couldn't be happier to meet you. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, orientation, like many things these days, looks a little different this year. In order to help orient you to your different branches (yes, plural!), we have created this handbook filled with everything you need to know and more. For more Library orientation information, check out: www.mcgill.ca/library/orientation. As a result of changing health measures and their impact on in-person university activities, aspects of the following information are subject to change as we work hard to provide you with the best possible access to spaces and resources we can. Please check out our news and events page for the latest information: www.mcgill.ca/library/about/news. Welcome to McGill! Contents The Basics Tips & Tricks Land Acknowledgement Skip the Waitz with this Seating App Library 101 Media in the Library Meet the Trenholme Dean of Libraries Which Library Are You? Map of Branches Questions? Ask Us! Meet the Branches Wellness Wellness Guide A Student's Perspective Accessibility Library Games WILLKOMMEN ﻣﺮﺣﺒﺎ ÜDVÖZLET BIENVENUE VELKOMI SELAMAT DATANG FÁILTE ようこそ ברוך הבא DOBRODOŠLI 어서 오십시오 SELAMAT DATANG MALIGAYANG PAGDATING ΚΑΛΩ ΗΡΘΑΤΕ WITAMY BI XÊR HATÎ W E L C O M E वागत ह े ДОБРО ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ VITAJ ยนิ ดตี อ้ นรบั SVEIKI ﺧﻮAشLA BIENVENID . آﻣﺪﯾﺪ WILLKOMMEN ÜDVÖZLET 欢迎 Land Acknowledgement It is important to recognize the origins of the land on which the McGill Library exists . McGill University is on land which long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose footsteps have marked this territory on which peoples of the world now gather. To learn of Indigenous initiatives on campus, visit: www.mcgill.ca/indigenous/. Library 101 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO GET STARTED 2 1 2 WHERE IS THE CAN I TAKE OUT WHERE CAN I LIBRARY? TEXTBOOKS? STUDY? At McGill, there isn't just one The libraries often have a limited All libraries offer study spaces. To library; there are 12 library number of textbooks for most find an up-to-date list of spaces branches in 9 different locations, courses offered at McGill, that are available to students and each providing a specific service. however, borrowing protocol for groups, visit: Some are catered to student and these differ. You can come to the www.mcgill.ca/library/services/h public use more than others. To library and read the textbooks, ours. 2 learn about each branch, keep but borrowing time is often for 1 reading or visit: 24-hours. This is to ensure that CAN I EAT IN THE www.mcgill.ca/library/branches. there is equal access to the LIBRARY textbooks. To learn more about DO I HAVE 1A Water bottles or other sealed borrowing times, visit: LIBRARIAN? drink containers are permitted in www.mcgill.ca/library/services/b Library spaces. Food is not McGill University covers a variety orrowing/basics. permitted in the Library. Please of scholarly topics and each visit McGill Food & Dining department has a Liaison DO I NEED A Services for more information Librarian specializing in those LIBRARY CARD? regarding where to eat on areas. Your Liaison Librarian is As a McGill student, within your campus: there to assist you with subject- first few days on campus you will www.mcgill.ca/foodservices/loca specific research. To find your acquire your McGill ID. This will tions. librarian, visit: act as your library card when www.mcgill.ca/library/contact/a taking books out in person. skus/liaison. 1 3 HOW DO I ACCESS WHERE DO I WHERE CAN I DATABASES? ACCESS ACADEMIC LEARN ABOUT LITERATURE? You can find an A-Z listing of our CITATIONS? online databases by visiting: Thanks to the Library's extensive Not sure how to properly www.libraryguides.mcgill.ca/az.p subscriptions, your McGill reference your sources? Visit our hp. When off-campus, sign in credentials offer you access to Citations Guide for information on using your McGill username and many academic publications that reference software available to password when prompted. are not publicly available without a McGill students, as well as fee. To find publications in your guidelines for common citation 3 subject of interest, go to: styles: www.mcgill.ca/library/. From libraryguides.mcgill.ca/citation. ARE THERE ONLY here, you may access a subject 1 ACADEMIC BOOKS guide to narrow your search, or do AT THE LIBRARY? an advanced keyword search WHAT IF THE through the Sofia Discovery Tool . LIBRARY DOESN'T Not at all! From New York Times HAVE THE BOOK I Best Sellers to audiobooks, the NEED? library covers your extracurricular CAN I SUGGEST A You can use InterLibrary Loan reading. For some inspiration on BOOK FOR (ILL), which permits you to your next read, have a look at the PURCHASE? borrow books that are not part of online Redpath Book Display at: As a library providing for the McGill Library’s collection. libraryguides.mcgill.ca/redpathbo McGill community, we welcome Requesting a document via ILL is okdisplay/home. purchase suggestions. To done through Colombo, a system suggest a book for the library to used at all Québec universities. add to its collection, visit: Visit: www.mcgill.ca/library/contact/a www.mcgill.ca/library/services/o skus/suggest. therloans/colombo and follow the instructions. 3 3 3 WHERE DO I WHERE CAN I FIND WHERE CAN I USE RETURN BOOKS? COURSE THE PRINTERS? MATERIALS? In general, books, journals, and Printing is available to McGill A/V material may be returned to Want to quickly search and access students at most library locations. any McGill Library branch. different course reading Students must have their McGill Additionally, after-hours return materials? The Library offers a ID with them to use the printers. bins are available at the Course Reserve service. To find To find locations, visit: McLennan-Redpath Complex and your course materials, visit: www.mcgill.ca/library/services/sc Macdonald Campus Library. mcgill.on.worldcat.org/courseRes an-print-copy. To learn more, visit: erves/landing and enter your www.mcgill.ca/library/services/b course code to find the list of orrowing/returns. suggested and required readings from your professor. 3 3 1 WHAT IS THE SOFIA CAN I CONSULT WHERE CAN I GET DISCOVERY TOOL? RARE MATERIALS? HELP? Sofia Discovery is the main Anyone can consult physical items Virtual reference services are catalogue for all books and other from the Library's rare and special available. Chat online, email, or media available through the collections. Some collections have text your desired branch. This will McGill Library. To find books and been digitized. connect you to a librarian who other media you can search Sofia can answer your questions. To using the title, author, or any We may also be able to help you learn more, visit: combination of keywords and locate alternative sources of www.mcgill.ca/library/contact/a search filters. Extend the results historical primary material. Please skus. to all Quebec university libraries, feel free to contact the and see which items are available appropriate librarian listed here: in real time. Try it out at: www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/r mcgill.on.worldcat.org/v2. arebooks/staff. Meet the Trenholme Dean of Libraries "Libraries belong to everyone... All knowledge is vital; it is the great equalizer." an appreciation for libraries built into McGill’s personality. I felt it the day I arrived and have been very fortunate to be able to work in such an amiable and appreciated environment for the past decade. It’s different. It’s closer, warmer, and more friendly. We in the library feel that we are an integral With 12 branches and over more than Islamic Studies Library? The views to part of the university community. seven million items, the McGill Library is the mountain from the 6th floor of Libraries belong to everyone; they one of the largest and most enjoyed McLennan? Birks Reading Room? aspects of our university. No one knows are ecumenical. All knowledge is The modern, black, gray, and white of this better than Colleen Cook, Trenholme vital; it is the great equalizer. Dean of Libraries. Since joining McGill in Music? Or the stairs and courtyard at Law? The historical Reading Room of 2011, Dean Cooke has seen the Library Finally, a library would be a Redpath Hall? The library at grow and evolve alongside the rest of warehouse of random objects if it Macdonald campus right on one of campus for over a decade. As her final weren’t for the people who have days at McGill near, read some of her the world’s most wonderful rivers? I laboured for lifetimes to acquire, insight on the libraries behind the service can’t answer this question. make accessible, and interpret desk and beyond. humankind’s accumulated wisdom. If you had to say one thing to Without the McGill Library workers Tell me about your history with the students accessing library services, who make finding and library. What drew you to what would it be? understanding information possible, McGill? This one is easy.