PLUG-INs A Student’s Guide toInformation Literacy

THE LIBRARY WEBSITEGeneral Information

From the HCT portal, click on Library.

Then, FALCON Library

Catalogue.

Or, put this URL in your Favorites:

library.hct.ac.ae

From this page, you can do a Quick

Search for books and other items. Enter a Keyword and choose

your location.

Pull down the Resources Menu.

Let’s look at the menu tabs.

In Plug In Lesson 6,

we will learn more about searching.

With Basic Catalog

Search, you can find out if

something is in the library.

We will learn more about all these features

in future lessons.

From Databases and

e-books, you can get online

dictionaries, encyclopedias,

articles and many other things.

From Login/View My Record, you can

see what you have borrowed.

Now, let’s look at the My Library

Menu.

From Library Guidelines,

you can find out about library rules and information.

You can find out about Library Hours,

Locations & Staff.

Now, let’s look at the

How do I … menu

It tells you how to borrow from

other libraries.

It tells you how to view your library record and other things.

It tells you how to find

a book.

You can link to college websites

from here.

Now, let’s look at the College Libraries

tab.

Now a very important place :

the Help tab

Explore the many features of this page. Ask your librarian if

you have any questions.

When you click on

HELP, you come to this

screen.

1. Did you know ?2. Book of the Month3. Featured Database

At the bottom of the page, there are 3 interesting

features.

Did you know ? This section

features interesting facts about the HCT

libraries.

Book of the Month

This features an interesting book in the HCT libraries.

Tell your librarian about your

favorite book. Maybe it will appear here.

Featured Database

This tells you about a database

available from HCT libraries.

I hope this helps you use

the library website.

Ask your friendly

librarian if you have any questions.

Thank you for listening.

HAPPY READING !