Hi, my name's Amy Bush and I'm one of the librarians here at
Yuba College Library.
Today I'm gonna introduce you to using the library, and our
learning objectives are that you'll be able to navigate the
library's website and you'll be able to get help from a
librarian if you need it.
So we're gonna start here at the Yuba College website.
So the first thing you have to do before you try to access any
library digital content, you have to sign into My Apps.
So you can do that from our college's website.
If you click over Student Login, you can login this way.
If you click into it, it's gonna ask you for your login
credentials.
It's the same one that you access your Yuba College e-mail.
Once you've done that, it's going to log you into my apps
like you see here.
Once you're logged in, you can just open a new tab that has to
be left on in the background because it authenticates you and
tells us yes, this is a student of ours and they can access our
library's resources.
And then you can just Google it you the college library.
All right, so from here, I want to show you how to get research
help.
If you click Get research help from the library's homepage,
you'll see there are three options for getting help.
You can book an appointment with a librarian.
We'll sit down and work with you one-on-one.
Or you can call us using this number.
Or you can e-mail us using this e-mail address.
If you book an appointment, you choose your time and fill out
all the required information here.
You also need to select a method for your meeting.
If you choose fully online, we'll meet with you through
Zoom.
You can also choose a phone appointment or There are three
options for in person.
The WCC is our woodland campus.
The YC is our main campus, the Yuba College Marysville campus,
and then there's also this YC Sutter center, but that we're
only available in person on Mondays, so be cognizant of that
if you use that option.
If you do choose a zoom appointment online, you should
be emailed a link to your zoom appointment.
But if you don't get that link, or if you lose that link, it's
OK You can always come back here and click into the reference
zoom room that's linked here as well.
I'm going to go back to the library's homepage and the way
you navigate through the library's website is using these
tools here on the left hand side.
If you click Citation Formats, this will bring you to our
citation guides.
We have a PAMLA and Chicago.
If you click into Library services, this tells you all the
different services the library offers.
Textbook reserves.
We have computers printing, we check out Chromebooks and
hotspots, We have group study rooms.
And then there's this thing called Interlibrary Loans.
If you ever run across a record of a resource that you need, but
you can't access the full text, you can request it using
Interlibrary Loans.
You'll fill out this entire form and submit it to us, and we will
go and see if we can borrow it from another library for you.
The thing about using Interlibrary Loans, though, is
it's not immediate service.
It takes time.
So for journal articles, it usually takes three to five days
to get to you and you'll receive that through your e-mail.
But if you were to try to get a physical book, that can take two
to three weeks to get to you.
So just be sure to plan ahead if you're going to use this
service.
The other thing I want to point out here is this tutorials.
You can click into tutorials and there are various other
tutorials that will help you navigate the different
databases, give you some searching tips and things like
that.
And then we also have online databases.
This is where you will go to access individual library
databases to get digital articles or ebooks or things
like that.
Back at the library's homepage, if you click this, find books,
articles, ebooks and more.
This searches the entire library, searches everything
that we have.
It is really a great place if you're looking for physical
books in the library because it's the only place that you can
access those.
It's also great for finding Open Access resources.
So resources that are openly available on the web you can
access from here as well.
Otherwise, if you are looking for journal articles or ebooks,
I highly advise you to actually go directly to those using these
online databases and later on in another video I will show you
how to do that.
I hope this has been helpful and if you need help you can always
call us or you can e-mail us.
I will talk to you later and hope to see you in the library.
Thanks.