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Welcome to another UBC Library Skills Tutorial.
This video will show you how to tell the difference between different library locations at UBC so that you can find the location that best fits your academic needs.
As you may notice, many of the items in the UBC Library's collections are available online.
Even though you can find your books and articles online quite easily, there are still some very good reasons to visit one of the many library locations in person.
For example, the library buildings contain helpful print materials, such as books, which are an excellent source of information for research assignments. Indeed, books can often provide a good overview of a topic, which can help you become familiar with a new subject.
In order to get a better sense of the role of books at the UBC library consider this example.
Imagine that you had to write a research paper about horses. You realize that you need to get some background information on the subject, do you decide to look for some books about horses. Starting on the main library web page, you enter the keyword "horses" into the Summon search box.
In the search results, you can see a number of books about horses. You can tell these results are books because they are labeled "book" at the bottom of each item entry. Next to the label, you can also a line of more detailed information about where to find the book. For the first item, this information tells us that the book is available and tat it is kept in the Education Library. You can also see that the fifth item is kept in the Woodward Library.
But both of the books are about horses, right? So why are they not both kept in the same library?
Although these books are both about horses, they are each relevant to a different discipline, or field of study, at UBC. And different library locations have collections that are specially designed to meet the needs of individual disciplines.
To give you a practical example, let's return to the search results you looked at earlier.
After clicking on the first result, you can see that the subject of this book is actually physical education for children. This is why it is kept in the Education library.
By contrast, you can see that the fifth book is actually about the evolution of horses. As a result, the book is of more interest to scientists, which is why it is kept in the Woodward library which holds the science collection.
Each of the library locations has a collection that is tailored for specific areas of study at UBC. Each of the library locations has a collection that is tailored for specific areas of study at UBC.
To find out more about the other locations, all you have to do is go back to the UBC Library homepage and click on the "Hours and Locations" link. Here, you can see the names of each library location along with information about when it is open, and where it is located.
In this video tutorial, you learned about the differences in print collections at each UBC Library location. You also learned how to identify the location of individual print resources.
Finally, you learned how to locate more information about UBC Library locations and Hours of Operation.