{"id":4292,"date":"2016-02-04T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:24:14","slug":"5-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/5-things\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things about Schulich Library That\u00a0You Might Not Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p>You probably have been studying at McGill for a while. But do you know all the resources and services offered by the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>McGill Library, especially those that are available at Schulich Library? Here are some of the services that most students don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<h1>No.1 Online Reservation<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p>Do you know that if you are looking for a book or an article, you don\u2019t even need to come to the library?\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to find your book on\u00a0the shelves. You only need to make your reservation online, put a hold request and select the pick-up location at any McGill Library branch. Library staff are going to get it for you.\u00a0The service is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/services\/borrowing\/students\/other-branches\/\">Requesting items for pick-up<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>No.2 After-Hours Access (AHA)<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p>Do you want to get access to Schulich after it\u00a0is closed, even on\u00a0weekends or holidays? Now here is a way. You can use the service at Schulich library called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/schulich\/afterhours\">After-hours Access (AHA)<\/a>. With your student card and the password you choose, you can get unlimited access to the Schulich Library. No need to worry about the open hours of the library any more.\u00a0 Note that this service is only available for\u00a0graduate students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>No.3 Group Study Room Reservation<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p>You want to find a group study room for a group project or for discussion? Here is what you should do. McGill Library has a lot of group study rooms. Some\u00a0of them have the white board and projector for you to use.\u00a0 It would only take you 2 min to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/services\/studyareas\/group\" target=\"_blank\">reservation online<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>No.4 Single Board Computer for borrowing<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p>If you start basic programming and want to test it on a single board computer, this would absolutely be of interest to you. Schulich Library has Arduino and Raspberry Pi lending.\u00a0Here is info about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/raspberry-pis-and-arduinos-come-to-schulich\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arduino and Raspberry Pi lending<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/profiles\/AprilColosimo\/lists\/3590771\" target=\"_blank\">List of items<\/a> in the catalogue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>No.5 Use the Wonderful Online Resources Easily<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p>You can borrow e-books and e-audiobooks from McGill Library.\u00a0 Overdrive makes e-audiobooks at McGill Library easily accessible to students. If you\u00a0install Overdrive on your mobile device, using\u00a0your McGill email and password you will have access to all the e-audiobooks at McGill Library. Here are the instructions for borrowing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/find\/ebooks\/borrowing-eaudiobooks\" target=\"_blank\">E-audiobooks<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/find\/ebooks\/borrowing-ebooks#1\" target=\"_blank\">E-books<\/a>. The books are available to you\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.lib.overdrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Like <strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mcgill.library.mses\" target=\"_blank\">MSES &#8211; Multilingual Services for Engineering Students<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>on Facebook, leave us a comment and get more updates about resources and services at McGill Library.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">MSES Service Team<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably have been studying at McGill for a while. But do you know all the resources and services offered by the\u00a0McGill Library, especially those that are available at Schulich Library? Here are some of the services that most students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/5-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-mses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}