Top Video Tutorials

Length: 4 min. 30 sec. / File Size: 5.4 MBs

Explains how to activate your UAA or APU ID card so that it can be used as your library card.

Length: 4 min. 19 sec. / size: 7.7 MBs

Shows how to use the Library Catalog to identify books or other items of interest. Teaches how to read a book record in the Catalog, including the call number, library location, and item status.

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Length: 3 min. / file size: 2.8 MBs

Demonstrates how to search for a book in the Library Catalog, either when you know the book's exact title, or when you know one or more keywords in the title. Explains elements of a book's record.

Length: 3 min. 58 sec. / file size: 4.6 MBs

Demonstrates how to place an electronic hold on an item in the Library Catalog and have Library staff retrieve the item for you and place at a library circulation desk for pick-up.

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Length: 3 min. 6 sec. / File Size: 2.8 MBs

Explains reasons why an electronic hold placed on an item in the Library Catalog may be unsuccessful, and ways to address this.

Length: 3 min. 58 sec. / size: 5.3 MBs

Demonstrates how to use the "Check Library for Full Text" link to locate the full-text of articles from within a database.

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Length: 4 min 25 sec | File Size: 3.8 MBs

Demonstrates how to use the Library's Journals A-Z list to locate an article in a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper in the Library's online and print collections when you have a citation.

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Length: 4 min. 52 sec. / size: 14 MBs

Shows how to fill out the Library's Citation Matcher form to locate the full-text of a journal article.

Length: 5 min 34 sec | File Size: 6.7 MBs

Demonstrates how to get to full text articles in the Library's databases when searching Google Scholar.

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