FAQs

There are three ways to set up table of contents alerts:

1. In a database like Ovid Medline or PubMed
2. At a website like JournalTOCs
3. At the journal webpage

In Medline

• Click on the Journal radio button in Advanced search
• Search for the title of the journal e.g. New England Journal of Medicine
• Check the box beside the title you want
• Click Search for Selected Terms
• On the Search History screen, beside the results of your search, mouse over More>>
• Click on Auto Alert
• You will need to create an account or login if you already have an account
• Give the search a name, the journal name and TOC might be appropriate
• You will receive and email when the database is updated and there are new results that fit your search criteria

JournalTOCs

• Start at http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php
• Click on Sign In (near top, right corner of webpage)
• First time users click on Sign Up
• You will receive an email - follow the instructions to confirm your registration
• Login and check off the journals you want to follow in the Most Followed Journals list or search for the title if it's not in the list

At the journal webpage

• Example: New England Journal of Medicine https://www.nejm.org/
• Click on Create Account (top, right side of screen)
• Complete the registration process
• Once you are logged in, you will see a link called My NEJM
• Mouse over My NEJM and click on My Alerts
• One of the options there will be Weekly Table of Contents

Which method should I use?

Why would you use the database to set up your TOC alerts? You only need to create one account in one place.

Why would you use the journal website? The journal website is likely to be more up to date.

Example: On this date, June 28, 2012, the most current issue in Medline was June 14, 2012 and the most current at nejm.org was June 28, 2012, two issues ahead of Medline.

Each database and each journal website will have slightly different procedures but they will all involve setting up an account that includes your email address.

MOLES (Methodology Oriented Locaters for Evidence Searching) are a collection of words that function as search filters in library searching. Use MOLES to help refine your search results to the specific type of information you're looking for.

If you're taking Social Work SWK4510, Research for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice, you will use MOLES words in your library research. In SWK4510, you will employ MOLES words for effectiveness questions.

Read more about MOLES and SWK4510 here: https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/SWK4510

There is a secreening room as well as a theatre located on the 3rd floor of Robarts Library. How to book a room. 

Guest Cards (previously called Visitor Cards) can be purchased from Guest Card & Cash Loading Stations at Robarts Library and the Gerstein Science Information Centre, or at the service desk at other libraries, for $5. This initial purchase dispenses a guest card with $4 on it. Users can load additional funds to the card online or at Guest Card & Cash Loading Stations in minimum increments of $5.

If you are experiencing trouble using your TCard or Guest Card for printing or photocopying, please follow the following steps:

• Ensure you have sufficient funds in your account by visiting https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/tcardplus/ (select Check Your Balance) or swiping at a Guest Card & Cash Loading Station.
• If you have sufficient funds but continue to experience trouble using your card, please contact TCard⁺ for further assistance: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/tcardplus/contact-us.

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The circulation desk is the place at any library where you can check out and return books, pay fines, pick up your holds, and more.  They are usually located near the main entrance of each library, and are sometimes called the "Loans Desk".

Pictured: The Loans Desk at Robarts Library.

To receive an email with the BMJ Case Reports Institutional Fellowship code, send a request to ask.gerstein@utoronto.ca

Please notify the circulation desk of the library that the books belongs to.  

Call Campus Community Police right away: 416-978-2323.

Thank you for your conscientiousness! You can drop off belongings to the lost and found or Campus Safety, or mail them to the lost and found office.  

For privacy reasons, we cannot contact the owners of lost items on your behalf or give out contact information of any kind.

TCards

Turn it in to any TCard office, U of T campus safety office, or library staff member.

Robarts drop box

You can deposit found items in Robarts' lost and found box, located on the first floor of the library near the elevators.

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Current course calendars and listings are available online. Most faculties also archive older calendars on their websites. 

The University of Toronto Archives have print copies of most calendars available in their Reading Room. Many older university calendars have also been digitized and can be accessed online.

For additional information, please contact the University of Toronto Archives.

Please see our online staff directory.

If you are a faculty member, please contact your faculty liaison librarian.

Microfiche and microfilm readers are available on the third floor of Robarts Library.

Other libraries may also have microfiche and microfilm readers. 

Quiet space to rest and reset

• Reflection Room at Robarts Library (8th floor)
• Reflection Room at Gerstein Science Information Centre (floor 1 Below)

Both rooms are spaces for religious, spiritual and secular practices, including prayer, meditation, yoga and mindfulness

Study space

Quiet study spaces are peppered throughout the University of Toronto's 40 libraries. Your best bets are: 

Quiet: 

• Gerstein Science Information Centre - The Morrison Pavilion and the Heritage Reading Room 
• Robarts Library - Quiet Zones
• UC Library Reading Room

Silent

• Gerstein Science Information Centre - Silent Study Room (main floor, Morrison Pavilion, north end) (laptops not permitted, cell phones on silent) 
• Robarts Library - Silent Zones 

We asked our Twitter followers about their favourite quiet study spaces. Here's what they said:

• the fireplace or rhodes rooms in Graham Library are some of our favourites!!
• Earth Sciences library, second floor in the individual study areas!
• 12th floor [Robarts] :) nice and quite :)
• We don't want to tell [or] others will nab our favourite quiet corners!

Consult your liaison librarian for a range of services offered by the library to support teaching and research including...

• Research consultations for faculty
• Curriculum related instruction
• Tailored research guides for courses or programs
• Collection requests and suggestions
• Questions or suggestions about library and information technology services

Find your personal librarian by logging in with your UTORid.

The Personal Librarian program pairs incoming Arts & Sciences, Applied Science & Engineering, and OISE graduate students with a University of Toronto librarian during their first year at the university.

Students involved in the program receive advice and feedback from their personal librarian throughout their first year, and are encouraged to contact their librarian whenever they have questions about library resources, services, and research.

Larry Alford has been the Chief Librarian of the University of Toronto Libraries since August 2011.

Mr. Alford has a long and distinguished library career. Prior to joining Temple in 2005, he spent 30 years with his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at North Carolina, he served in a variety of positions, including deputy university librarian and interim university librarian.

Our previous Chief Librarian, Carole Moore, retired in June 2011 after 25 years of dedicated service and visionary leadership.

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