The Education Library Sping/Summer Term hours are:
MEET WITH YOUR EDUCATION LIBRARIAN
Your Education Librarian is available to assist you with your literature searches and to help you get started wtih your research. Drop in with quick questions or make an appointment to map out a research strategy. We can work together in the Library or via email, chat, Zoom, or Teams. Your questions are welcome.
OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS
Sign in to our proxy service with your NetID to access our licensed electronic subscriptions from off-campus. You can log in to the service before starting your searches or just wait to be prompted for your NetID and password the first time you try to access an e-journal, e-book, or database from a Queen's web page.
BORROWING PRINT RESOURCES
Borrowing privileges for graduate students at Queen's:
Reciprocal Borrowing Agreements for Queen's researchers
Queen's Library has reciprocal borrowing agreements with many academic libraries in Canada and the United States. Find out more about how to use these direct borrowing services and lists of our partner libraries here. U of Toronto information is here.
RESEARCH GUIDES
In addition to this guide that focuses on services and resources for Education researchers you will find subject research guides for all disciplines taught at Queen's on the Research by Subject page. These guides will be invaluable to those working on interdisciplinary topics.
Queen's University subscribes to EndNote. The Library's Citation Management Guide explains how to get started with EndNote and other citation management systems. Ask your Education Librarian if you encounter obstacles and we will search for a solution with you.
RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT
For assistance with research data management, from developing a data management plan to depositing your data in a shared archive for preservation and long term access, talk to your Education Librarian. To read more about the services available to Queen's researchers for data management, see the Research Data Management Guide.
How We Read Now by An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the fieldWe face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning, onscreen reading may seem likethe only viable option. Yet selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to understand how reading medium actually impacts learning - and what strategies we need in order to read effectively in all formats.In How We Read Now, Naomi Baron draws on a wealth of knowledge and research to explain important differences in the way we concentrate, understand, and remember across multiple formats. Mobilizing work from international scholarship along with findings from her own studies of reading practices,Baron addresses key challenges - from student complaints that print is boring to the hazards of digital reading for critical thinking. Rather than arguing for one format over another, she explains how we read and learn in different settings, shedding new light on the current state of reading. Thebook then crucially connects research insights to concrete applications, offering practical approaches for maximizing learning with print, digital text, audio, and video.Since screens and audio are now entrenched--and invaluable-platforms for reading, we need to rethink ways of helping readers at all stages use them more wisely. How We Read Now shows us how to do that.
Selected open access readings from Routledge.
Need a book or chapter that is not available at your nearest campus library?
If the item you want is listed in Omni, sign in to Omni and use the Request for Pickup link on the item's record to request that an item be delivered to your library of choice. Delivery time is usually 2 -3 days, depending on the lending library. If the item is not available at another Omni library we will move the item to Interlibrary Loans or recall the item from the current Queen's user. Recalls modify the due date of the item to 1 week from the date of the recall (everyone is, however, guaranteed items for 2 weeks). An email will be sent to you to let you know once the item is available for pick-up, or you can track its status in real time in Omni.
If the item you want is not listed in Omni, use the RACER Interlibrary Loans service to request what you need. We work with libraries worldwide to supply the items you request at no charge.
If you need a scan of a chapter and the book is at Queen's, sign in to Omni and use the Request a Scan option. If the book is not at Queen's use the Get It From Another Library option and check the I only need a specific chapter option.
Read more about your borrowing privileges here.
PRINT / COPY / SCAN
Our services are temporarily limited to printing pdfs from a data key. We are working to launch a new print/copy/scan service as soon as possible.
Copy: 10 cents/page (b&w); 45 cents/page (colour)
Print: 9 cents/page (b&w double-sided); 40 cents/page (colour double-sided)
Scan: free (it is a scan-to-data key service only) Staff at our Service Desks can lend you a data key if you need one to scan to and then send the file to yourself via email from a computer.
