Getting started

This guide identifies the most useful resources for Engineering and Digital design and keeps you up to date with library skills and news for your subject area.

Please feel free contact me, your divisional librarian, if you need help navigating these resources.

Getting Started using the Library

The best place to start searching for resources for your course is your reading list and LibrarySearch.

Your online reading list can be found via your course moodle. Here is a short video with instructions on how to access and use your reading list.

Links to digital resources are available from here so may require your Kent Login to access them.

For more information on library services including how to borrow, make reservations, checking your library account etc, please see our full list of library guides

Books

We have a large collection of engineering and digital design books in the library as well as in related topics in arts, computing, mathematics, physics and bioengineering.

As well as using LibrarySearch to find specific titles you may want to browse topics areas on the library shelves. You can use the library map to locate broader subject areas.

The first two letters of a classmark identify the topic within your discipline. You can look for these on end of our shelving to find an area to browse.

TA -Engineering, general                   NC – Design & illustration

TJ -Mechanical engineering              QA -Computing & Maths

TK -Electrical engineering                 QC -Physics

Find out more about finding books at the Templeman.

Ebooks

You might also want to browse the following ebook collections for a specific topic:

  • SpringerLink – good range of research books in STEM subjects. Filter by discipline.
  • Science Direct – covering a range of  STEM subjects. Filter by specific topic.
  • IEEE Xplore – collections from key publisher in technology subjects

More advice on how to find and use e-books

Borrowing items

Using your Kent One card, you can borrow up to 40 books from the Library, so you may well need to make he most of our sport and fitness opportunities to carry them!

Find out more about borrowing from the Templeman.

Finding books outside of the Templeman Library

There may well be an occasion where you are searching for a book title, and find it’s not available in the Templeman Library. Alternatively, you may be researching a topic from a specific angle and would like to see if there are any other book titles available in the field.

The resources listed below, allow you to extend you book searching outside of the Templeman Library to other Higher Education institutions and national holding libraries.

Use these in conjunction with the SCONUL process to see if HE Libraries near to your home have the book for reference use, or to request via our Document Delivery Service.