Your Education Librarian is now available both online and in the Education Library in McArthur Hall if you have any questions about library access or resources. The Education Library is now open with regular hours: Monday to Thursday 8 am to 9 pm; Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 10 am to 5 pm.
The Education Library in McArthur Hall is currently closed due to the pandemic.
Queen's reseachers have access to our online library of over 100,000 journals and 800,000 ebooks and may also request curbside book pickup or copyright-compliant scans via Omni.
Email education.library@queensu.ca for more information or see the Library's COVID-19 Updates.
MEET WITH YOUR EDUCATION LIBRARIAN
Your Education Librarian is available to assist you with your literature searches. Drop in with quick questions or make an appointment to map out a research strategy. We can work together via email, chat, Zoom, or Teams. Your questions are welcome.
INTERLIBRARY LOANS: RACER
Use the RACER Interlibrary Loans service to request materials not available at Queen's U Library. We work with libraries worldwide to supply the items you request at no charge.
Queen's University Provides Access to EndNote
Queen's University subscribes to EndNote. The Library's Citation Management Guide provides information on 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.
RESEARCHER TRAINING PROGRAM
Our Researcher Training Program picks up the research process at the point where you are creating your data management plan for your study. This program covers registering for your ORCiD and open access options for publishing your research.
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.
REQUEST AN ITEM Temporarily replaced by CURBSIDE PICKUP
Need a book that is currently not available or not at your nearest campus library? Use the REQUEST link on the item's record to request that an item be delivered to your library of choice. Delivery time is usually 2 days if the item is in the Library. If the item is signed out, a hold will be placed on short term loans (2 weeks) and a recall will be placed on regular loans (120-day loans). 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.
PRINT / COPY / SCAN
Add "Tri-Colour Cash" to your Queen's photo-ID student/staff/faculty card to print from any computer in any Queen's Library -- or from your own laptop to one of our new "Multi-Function Devices" (formerly known as copiers).
Use Visa, MasterCard, or Interac to purchase the Tri-Colour Cash. It will appear on your statement as Queen's Optional Meal Plans.
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.