End of term is coming!

Yes, the end of term is finally approaching! As you race to finish up your essays and assignments, please remember that library staff is available to help you with finding academic resources (i.e. other than Google or Wikipedia information).

Contact Trish in the Durham College/UOIT Library in person, at 905-721-3082 x2388 or trish.johns-wilson@dc-uoit.ca.

As classes end, the schedule for the van service may change. Watch the blog or the Trent in Oshawa page for more

Extended library hours for exams

As exam time gets closer, the Bata Library (at Trent) and the Durham College/UOIT Library are open longer hours so you have more time to study.

Bata Library:
Monday, March 23rd - Thursday, April 23rd - open until 2am
Exceptions to this are Friday, April 3rd (close at 8pm) and Easter Weekend (see http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/about/hours.html for Easter hours)

Durham College/UOIT Library:
Open from 10am to 10pm on the following Sundays: April 5th, 12th and 19th.

Returning library materials

You can return library materials that you borrowed from Bata library (in Peterborough) through the Durham College/UOIT library in Oshawa. The items will travel from Oshawa to Peterborough on the van service. This van service runs in the evening from Monday to Thursday.

Items may not be returned on your account immediately - travel time to Peterborough, time needed by staff to return items in the system, etc, may mean a delay of a day or two. If your books were already late, you may receive an automatically generated reminder message from Trent's circulation system.

Items will be backdated to the date that you actually returned them in Oshawa.

To avoid late fees, be sure to return your books on time!

Finding journal articles

Do you know where to look when your professor says that you must use scholarly journal articles for your essay? (hint: not Google)

Answer: The library, of course! The library subscribes to thousands of journals to support the courses that the university offers. In order to search these journals, you will need to use something called an 'index'. There are many different journal indexes - some cover history topics, some cover sociology topics, etc., etc.

The library divides these indexes up into subject areas to make it easier for you. To find the right indexes for your area, use the 'Find Resources by Subject' link on the library website. Select the subject area that you are looking for (history, psychology, sociology, etc) and you will see a list of the relevant journal indexes for that area. As you scroll down the subject guide, you will also see a number of other online resources that might or might not be useful to you depending on your topic.

As you are using indexes, please keep in mind:
1) some indexes may have both scholarly material (journals) and non-scholarly
(magazines and newspapers) - a good clue is if there is an option on the search
screen to limit your search to scholarly materials only
2) some indexes provide the full text of the article, while others just tell you
that it exists - if there is no full text showing, use the 'Get it @ Trent' icon
to see if it is available within the Trent system, either in electronic format or
in paper (by checking TOPCAT)

Confused? Contact Trish for assistance: 905-721-3082 x2388 or trish.johns-wilson@dc-uoit.ca (or drop into the Durham College/UOIT library).

Renewal Reminder

Remember to return or renew your books on/before their due date in order to avoid overdue fines!

To renew, use the 'My Accounts' option in TOPCAT on or before the item's due date.

Most items may be renewed once, as long as there are no holds on them.

If you have problems with a renewal, please contact Jacquie at oshawarequest@trentu.ca.