A book that you have borrowed from the library that must be returned to us. You will get an email to your student email account letting you know about this.
SEE ALSO: Automatic Renewals
An arrangement between Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and the University of South Wales (USW) that allows full-time undergraduates of one university to sign up to use the libraries of the other three.
Reference Management apps help automate and speed up the process of organising your research.
A book or journal which cannot be loaned from the Library, only used within the library. On the shelves these books are always either labelled as ‘reference only’ or have red stickers. In MetSearch their location is given as ‘Main Shelves (reference only)’ and they are labelled as ‘Not loanable’.
Referencing is the practice of acknowledging sources of evidence as you use them in your work.
SEE ALSO: Citation
Extending a loan past the original return date.
SEE ALSO: Automatic Renewals
Asking the library, via MetSearch, to put a book on hold for you to collect later or purchase/source a copy of a book that isn't in the Collection.
SEE ALSO: Interlibrary Loan; Purchase Request; Reserve (see below)
Asking the library to put a book on hold for you to collect later.
SEE ALSO: Request (see above)
If all physical copies of a book are out on loan, you will need to click ‘Reserve @ Cardiff Met’ which is an option in MetSearch results under ‘Get It’. This is the method for requesting the book.
SEE ALSO: Request; Reserve (see above)