When required readings come from published books and journals and are not available in PDF form in the PDF folder on Canvas, you will have to fetch them yourself from the MLibrary. Because your job as a librarian will be helping library users find journal articles, books, etc., in digital and physical library collections, it is expected that you gain practice doing so for assigned readings on the SI 666 readling list. Here are some finding strategies:

• Copy the author, year, title, and journal name from the reading list. Go to the MLibrary home page. Paste the copied text into ArticlesPlus and click the "Go" button. If ArticlesPlus finds it, click on the MGetIt button for full-text.
• Go to the MLibrary home page. Under "Quick Links," choose "Online Journals. Type the journal name into the search box. Choose an e-text provider and navigate the e-text provider's journal volumes and issues list in search of the desired journal volume and issue. Choose the desired journal volume and issue, browse the desired issue's titles in search of the cited article. Click on HTML to open full-text in a window or click on PDF to download a PDF version to your desktop.
• Open Mirlyn Classic. Choose "Journal/Serial Name begins with" from the pull-down menu and type the journal name into the search box. Browse the list for the desired journal, choose an e-text provider and navigate the e-text provider's journal volumes and issues list in search of the desired journal volume and issue. Choose the desired journal volume and issue, browse the desired issue's titles in search of the cited article. Click on HTML to open full-text in a window or click on PDF to download a PDF version to your desktop.

There are several sources available for consultation in the SI Student Lounge. Go to the lounge's "quiet zone" and fetch them from the bookshelves above the printer.

The RDA Toolkit includes the unabridged full Anglo-American cataloging rules (AACR) but I am not expecting you to learn both AACR and RDA at the same time -- such a task would confuse you too much. Recent editions of the print RDA, Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH), Subject headings manual, and Dewey decimal classification and relative index (DDC) are shelved in the Student Lounge. Please use these tools in the Student Lounge so others can queue for them. These resources average about $240 per title so please take care of them. Please do not pick up LCSH by its front or back cover only -- support the volume using two hands. All five volumes have had the binding torn right off them as a result of one-handed handling. They have been repaired but repairs are expensive. Other copies of LCSH should be found at most campus libraries.

SI 666's Course Outline and Reading List are freely available on the web. If you want extra paper copies of handouts distributed in class, consult the SI 666 site on Canvas. Materials at our SI 666 Canvas site are numbered according to week. For example, materials for weeks 3 and 5 may be found in folders beginning with the numbers "03" and "05," respectively. Sometimes there is more than one numbered folder per week. The professor assigns mnemonic names to folders that are indicative of their content. The folder beginning with the number "00" is dedicated to course management items, e.g., peer evaluation forms, etc.