Joyner Library Virtual Website Tour

Getting Started

Welcome to the Joyner Library Virtual Website Tour.

This tour will walk you through some of the important services offered by the library, as well as lead you to important resources for the research process.

This "Guide on the Side" tutorial allows you to continue to use the Joyner Library website while also following along on the tour. 

The tour will take approximately 20 minutes.

Navigation

Before we begin, please take note of the following navigation buttons that you will see in the Guide on the Side panel:

Your Turn:  This button represents an opportunity to use the website on the tour, so follow the directions!

Back Home:  Click this to be taken back to the library homepage. You will see this when the next step requires you to be on the homepage.

Ask Us:  Click this to be connected with a librarian via IM when the Research Desk is open.

 For definitions, click the definition a second time to close the definition.

Let's get started!

Ask a Librarian

Your Turn! Click on the tab along the top of the webpage that says "Libraries and Collections."

ECU Libraries consist of three libraries and a number of special collections. Click each of these definitions to learn more about locations and service desks of the library. Click them again to close the box.

Joyner Library

Laupus Health Sciences Library

Special Collections

Music Library

Teaching Resources Center

Ask a Librarian

Getting Help

Your Turn! Click on the tab at the top of the webpage that says "Get Help." Then click on Use our Ask a Librarian Service.

Joyner Library offers many ways to get help from a librarian. Click on the following short descriptions to learn more about the ways to get help.

In Person

Instant Message

Phone

Email

Book a Librarian

Tutorials

Ask a Librarian

Hours

Under About Us, it shows the hours for the library building and the desks you learned about in the previous window.

Your Turn!  Click About Us and then on Hours to be taken to a listing of regular hours and upcoming exceptions to the hours.

Use the hours page to answer the following question:

Ask a Librarian

Using the Library

To be taken back to the Joyner Library homepage, click on this button.

Under the OneSearch bar in the center of the screen, you will see a number of services listed. Read about them here:

Reserve a Study Room

View Maps and Directions

Frequently Asked Questions

Borrow Equipment

View Research Guides

Click the next button to read about My Account.

My Account

My Account

My Account allows you to renew books online and put books on hold to be picked up at a later time. You can also do this at the Circulation desk.

The link to My Account can be found by clicking Check My Account.

Your Turn!  Click on the My Account link and try to log in. Please note that this will only work if you are enrolled as a student right now, so if you are not, please skip this Your Turn. You can log in using your Pirate ID and passphrase, once you have one set up.

For now, you likely will not see much in your account, but it is a good start to be able to log in!

My Account

Using the Library: Quiz

Click the Next button to go on to the next section of the Virtual Tour.

Conducting Research

Conducting Research

To be taken back to the Joyner Library homepage, click on this button.

Please draw your attention to the box in the center of the homepage called One Search.

This search box and the tools linked below it are where you will conduct much of the online scholarly research while at ECU. The following pages will outline each of these powerful tools.

Conducting Research

OneSearch

Use One Search to simplify your library search. It searches through a massive collection of books, scholarly journals, newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, conference proceedings, and more, linking you to items available through ECU Libraries, whether online or in print.

One Search does not search every database the library subscribes to, but it is a great place to start. The next section will tell you about finding other databases for your particular subject area.

Conducting Research

Find Databases

Your Turn!  Click on the link called "Database List" under the OneSearch box. Another way to get to the database list is to click Find Resources, and then click
"Find a database in your subject area."

You can find an article by searching in a database. A database is a searchable collection of information. Examples of everyday databases include Amazon.com and iTunes. A library database contains newspapers, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and trade journals.

The Database List shows all of our subscription library databases, broken down by subject area. This will be important for searching for topics when you are in your major.

Conducting Research

Using the Database List

Your Turn!  Using the listing of databases by subject, look for a database that is listed as appropriate for your major.

Your Answer:

______________________________

Other ways to search

Additionally, you may want to search by a specific format. The databases can also be searched by the format of the information you will find in them, such as streaming video or newspapers. To do this, look under Browse by Type.

If you know the name of the database you are looking for, you can search alphabetically. All of these options can be found at the top of the screen.

Conducting Research

Quiz: Database List

The following are questions about finding databases.

Conducting Research

Find E-Journal/E-Book Titles

Click here to be taken back home to the Joyner Library homepage.

The next tool on the tour is the E-Journal/E-Book Portal. If you click on E-Journal/E-Book Portal under the One Search box, you will find a search page that allows you to search by individual titles of journals and e-books, as well as by subject. This is especially helpful if you are tasked to find an article from a specific journal, or if you are interested in browsing the most recent articles from a trade publication that has to do with your major or career.

Test this by searching some popular magazine titles, such as Rolling Stone or Vogue.

Hint: This is not the easiest way to search for a specific journal article if you have the citation. Go to the next page to learn more about that!

Conducting Research

Citation Linker

You will find the Citation Linker by clicking on the link in the E-Journal/E-Book Portal link. This is a tool that allows you to see if ECU Libraries have a specific article or resource by citation.

Your Turn!  Enter the following citation information into the Citation Linker. You can copy and paste from this screen.

Article Title:  From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side

Author:  Alison King

Source:  College Teaching , Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 30-35

What happens when you click Find It?

Your Answer:

______________________________

Conducting Research

Search in the Catalog

To be taken back to the Joyner Library homepage, please click this button.

The catalog is where you will find books and other physical materials housed in Joyner, Music, and Laupus Libraries at ECU.

Your Turn!  Click the link to go into the Library Catalog (the link is under One Search). In the search box, write:

This Book is Overdue

What do you find?

Your Answer:

_____________________________

Hint: You can also find books when using One Search by clicking the check box on the left side that says "Library Catalog."

Research Guides and Course Reserves

Research Guides

Click this button to go back to the Joyner Library homepage. Next, click on the "Research" tab and direct your attention to the heading Research Guides under the OneSearch box.

Research Guides are library tutorials created specifically for your major or your class. They are helpful when you are working on a project and you need help getting started.

Your Turn!  Click on the Research Guides and find the guide that most closely fits your major. Bookmark this guide for future use in a class. You may also see this guide linked to your Blackboard course.

Research Guides and Course Reserves

Course Reserves

Next, direct your attention to the heading Course Reserves under Find Resources (make sure to scroll down).

Course reserves are books that are put aside for student use by the professor of a certain class. This book can be checked out at the Circulation desk and used in the library. If we have the textbook for your class, it is normally on Course Reserve.

If you wish, you can click on Course Reserves and see if the book for your course is on reserve.

Research Guides and Course Reserves

Search WorldCat

WorldCat is an online catalog that lists all of the books in almost every library on the planet. If you have not found what you are looking for in the vast amount of resources available to you through ECU Libraries, WorldCat would be a good next step to find information in print (book) resources.

On the next page, you will learn about how to get library materials we do not have access to at ECU Libraries...for free!

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan

You can request articles, books, media, and more from other libraries when ECU libraries do not have what you need.

Your Turn!  Click on the "Our Services" tab in bar along the top of the webpage. Click on Interlibrary Loan.

You log in to Interlibrary Loan (ILL) with your Pirate ID and passphrase. If you are an admitted student, you can log in now or wait until you need this service. When logged in, use the correct link on the left to request materials that the ECU Libraries do not have. We will find them at another library, have them sent here, and check them out to you!

Interlibrary Loan

Congratulations!

You have reached the end of the tour.

Now that you have been on a tour of the Joyner Library website, you have completed the ground work of learning the definitions and locations of tools you will need while conducting research at ECU.

Click here to be taken to Library 101 Tutorial.

Click here to be taken to the Joyner Library webpage without this tutorial box.

Certificate

Please enter your name and email address to retrieve a copy of your completed quiz.

You can enter multiple email addresses separated by commas. If you are doing this for a class, you may need to enter your instructor's email address also.