IMESS Scholarship Funding Category A deadline:
27 April 2012

IMESS Scholarship Funding Category B deadline:
27 April 2012

Non-scholarship applications deadline:
27 April 2012

 

 

 

IMESS Student Handbook

The Study Facilities

Libraries

As an IMESS student, you have access to the facilities of the SSEES Library, all other UCL libraries and the Senate House Library. When applying for membership of these libraries, you will need to show proof of your student status (your UCL ID card) and proof of registration.

SSEES Library

SSEES Library has Britain’s largest specialist collections on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union. The entrance to the Library is on the Ground Floor of the SSEES building in Taviton Street. As a new IMESS student you are welcome to join one of the tours arranged for new students at the beginning of the year but you are also invited to make an individual appointment with one of the Library’s specialist staff.

The Library offers historical research materials, contemporary publications relevant to the area, periodicals, newspapers and other materials in support of courses. Electronic resources are easily accessed through the extensive and heavily used directory of electronic resources on the region available on the School’s website. This is maintained and updated by SSEES Library staff; suggestions for additions are welcome. All SSEES students have access to the wide range of databases and e-journals subscribed to by UCL. A full list is available here.

The Library also provides IT and audio-visual facilities for the School. There are dedicated rooms in the Library for viewing videos and DVDs, for general computing, internet access and computer-assisted learning. See below for further details.

UCL Libraries

You will find additional facilities and relevant collections in the UCL Main Library, which is located in the centre of the Wilkins Building on the main campus off Gower Street (under the dome) and the Science Library in the DMS Watson building, also located on the main campus. Economics, History, Literature and Politics collections are located in the Main Library building; Geography, Psychology and Anthropology are housed in the Science Library in the DMS Watson Building.

Maps showing the locations of all UCL libraries are available in SSEES Library.

University of London Senate House Library

The entrance to this library is situated on the fourth floor of the main Senate House building (South block), Malet Street.

Computing

Students are strongly advised to avail themselves of the computing facilities provided at UCL. E-mail access will be important since it provides the main means of communication with tutors and other staff and students. You should also gain valuable practical experience in word-processing, use of on-line catalogues, databases and other on-line academic materials. Training courses are available from the UCL Graduate School.

SSEES IT Facilities

PCs and a laser printer are available for the exclusive use of postgraduate students of the School in a cluster room on the first floor. The computers run a number of standard Windows-based Office applications, statistical packages and also provide access to the Internet. They are supplied with a wide range of language fonts, including Cyrillic.

There is a second cluster of PCs and two laser printers available for all SSEES students to use on the first floor of the SSEES Library. All laser printers are operated by the same cards that operate the photocopiers; these are available from the Library issue desk.

Access to all SSEES computer clusters is by a 4-digit security code, which postgraduate students can collect from the issue desk on presentation of a valid UCL ID card. Headphones for use with audio-visual material and Computer-Assisted Language Learning software are available from the issue desk; you will be asked to leave your UCL ID card as a deposit.

UCL IT Facilities

Throughout UCL there are a number of rooms where clusters of PC work stations are located. These cluster rooms are run by the Information Systems Department of UCL. You have to be a registered user, i.e. be issued with a Personal Registration Number [PRN], before making use of the workstations. First-year students will be issued with a student ID card at enrolment and this ID card will incorporate your PRN. Leaflets on how to self-register can be obtained from the Information Systems Help Desk in the basement of the Language Centre (136 Gower Street).

Once you are registered, you will be allocated your own personal identifier [called a userid] and a password, which ensures that only you will have access to your personal files. You must never give your password to anyone else, as you are held responsible for anything carried out under your account.

When not used for teaching, the cluster rooms are open for individual use. Further information is available.

Audio-Visual Facilities

The SSEES Library holds a collection of over 2,000 video cassettes and 1,000 DVDs containing films and documentaries from and about the region. A searchable catalogue of this collection is available. The news in Czech, Polish and Russian is recorded each weekday. The Audio-Visual Room in the Library provides facilities for watching these materials. Headphones can be obtained from the Issue Desk on deposit of a current UCL ID card.

Specialist Bookshops

A list of central London bookshops and online book suppliers can be found here.

 

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