Information for undergraduates

Contacts and feedback

Your subject contact is Emma Place, the Subject Librarian for Theology and Religious Studies.  Please contact Emma if you need any help with your Library research.  You are also welcome to suggest books for the Library (for example if you would like additional copies to be bought to help meet demand) via the Book suggestions form (UOB access only).

Additionally, students with any suggestions or queries about library resources can contact staff in the Theology Department:

• unit tutors
• departmental library contact, Carolyn Muessig.
• departmental Staff/ Student Liaison Committee

Information literacy: training and skills for finding information

Making proper use of the Library and its resources will help you to get the most out of your studies at Bristol.

In consultation with the Department of Theology and Religious Studies all new students receive an introduction to the Arts and Social Sciences Library, including a tour of the building and practical instruction on finding material in the library catalogue and retrieving it from the shelves. All new undergraduates are required to attend this induction session, students are able to sign up for a place at registration.

Additional, and more in-depth training in finding and using information is provided for undergraduates embarking on final year dissertations.

A number of online resources are available that will also help guide you:

• Information literacy: web tutorials
• Internet for religious studies and theology is an interactive, online tutorial that will help to improve your Internet search skills and introduce you to useful sites along the way.
• Researching a topic in theology and religious studies - in six steps

Subject resources

• The collections page details useful theology and religious studies collections in the libraries, and advice on using other university libraries and the British Library.

Inter-library loan vouchers

• If you need an item which is not held anywhere in the library system here in print or online, you can use the Inter-library loans Service to obtain it from another library. There is a charge for this service, though final year undergraduate students may be entitled to vouchers for their dissertations but should discuss the matter with their supervisor before requesting one. Inter-library loan vouchers can be obtained from the School of Humanities.

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