Library Services

Circulation
Circulation Rules

The material accessible to accredited users of CTL Eurocollege library is divided in the following four categories:

Main Collection

This includes material which is accessible to all eligible Library users. The maximum number of days allowed per loan is ten (10) days. However, this does not apply to Academic and Administration Staff, who can borrow material for the duration of the Academic Semester.

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Short Loan Collection

This category includes printed and audiovisual material which has been designated as essential teaching aids for the current Academic Semester. This can only be borrowed for a maximum of two (2) days during a given Semester. They are marked with a yellow symbol.

Material from Short Loan and Main Collection categories can only be renewed as long as they are not required by other users at the time.

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Non-Loanable Material

This category includes magazines, newspaper, maps and informational material such as encyclopaedias and dictionaries. Items of this category cannot be loaned and their use is restricted within the library area. They are marked with a red symbol.

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Audiovisual Material

This category includes CDs DVDS, audio tapes, and video tapes and so on. Audiovisual material accompanying a book can be loaned under the same conditions that apply to the category the book itself belongs to. Any audiovisual material that does not accompany a book can be lent to all accredited users for ten (10) days.

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Renewal of Loaned Material

Loaned material can be renewed for any number of times, as long as the material in question has not been requested by another user and it’s clear of any penalty.

Renewals can be made:

  1. In the Library on presentation of the Student’s card
  2. Through the telephone (70001381 or +357 25 736501)
  3. By sending an e- mail to libary@ctleuro.ac.cy
Reservation of Material

Users can reserve items from any of the Library categories except for the non –loanable Material and the short loan category. An item can only by reserved if it’s already out on loan. A user can make a reservation by presenting their Student card to the Librarian. As soon as the reserved item has been returned to the Library, the Librarian notifies the interested user by telephone or email. If the item is not collected within (2) two days, the reservation is automatically cancelled. Reservations are made on a first- come, first- served basis.

Return of Loaned Items

Borrowers must return all loaned items within the period of time allocated to the category the borrowed item belongs to. All borrowed items must be returned to the library before the end of running Semester.

Recall of Items

The Library reserves the right to recall any loaned item. Borrowers are notified over the phone or by email that the loaned item will be recalled. If the borrower does not respond to a recall request, a penalty may be imposed.

Replacement of Lost or Damaged Items

When a borrowed item is damaged or lost, the borrower is obliged to notify the Library and pay for replacement of the lost or damaged item. All lost items remain the sole property of CTL Eurocollege and if found at a later date, they must be returned to the Library immediately. A borrower can choose to replace a lost or damaged item, provided that the replacement is exactly the same as the original. However, if the specific Item is no longer available (out of print or out of stock), the borrower is obliged to pay the full cost to the Library.

Overdue Items

There is a penalty of €1 per day for late returns of items. All overdue items carry a daily penalty. In other words, if a borrower returns an item (5) five days later, the penalty incurred is the daily rate times five. (€1X5 days=€5). A Library user cannot borrow any other item if they have any unpaid penalties to their name. Furthermore, Students will not be allowed to register for the following Semester or graduate unless they pay off any pending penalties for overdue or damaged items to the Library first.

Ordering of Material

The College Library updates its collection before the beginning of each new Semester. The aim is to enrich the Library with new material, replace damaged stock and lost items.

Orders are placed in response to requests from Academic and Administrative Staff as well as from Students. Factors such as cost, perceived need and availability of items (from publisher and suppliers) are taken into consideration for the final approval of the requests. Orders of multiple copies are only allowed under the following conditions:

  1. The material in question is in high demand
  2. The Library needs to replace the copies of an item due to damage
  3. Multiple copies of an item held in stock have all gone missing and need to be replaced
The Ordering Process:
  • Order forms are to be completed and handed in in time
  • All necessary information is to be included and clearly stated
  • Books destined for the short – loan category have to be clearly marked as such
Users Wishing to Order Material:

Need to fill in the following online application

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Tools
Plagiarism

The term plagiarism is declared ownership of projects and ideas of other authors. Whether it is intended or not, it is plagiarism whenever you use all or part of the work / ideas / concepts by other authors presenting them as our own.

“The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own: there were accusations of plagiarism .” [Online]. Available at: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/plagiarism [Accessed: 5 December 2016]

More specifically we plagiarism whenever:
  1. We use the entire work, words or ideas of another author without reference to the source from which we drew this information.
  2. We quote in full phrases or sentences from a source without the enclosed in quotation marks “…” without mentioning the source.
  3. Paraphrasing; presenting with our own voice and style information or arguments of an author, without referring to the source.
  4. Falsify or misrepresent information or data from another source.
  5. We undertake to do the work of another person or on the contrary, when relying on someone else to do our work.

The use of references is not required when:

  1. When we express our own ideas and opinions. In case we use our own ideas which have been published in our previous work in the past, then you need to refer to them.
  2. We use ideas, theories or other information which are public knowledge, in other words when they are known to the general public.

 

How to avoid plagiarism

When writing a work or research it is necessary to state the sources from which we derive information. It is important to provide complete and organized academic references for anything we use in our work.

More specifically we avoid plagiarism, whenever:

  1. We quote in full phrases or sentences of other authors and enclose in quotation marks “…” while citing the source from which the learned.
  2. We paraphrase; presenting with our own voice and style information or arguments of another author and refer to the source.
  3. We summarize; referring to the so-called or ideas of another author without altering or misrepresent information and referring also to our source.

 

References allow the reader to refer directly to the original source to verify or to compare and contrast what we wrote in relation to the source.

Plagiarism Checkers

For more info please visit: Plagiarism Org 

Citation

 

Instructions to References

The System of referencing discussed and proposed in this document (page 7) is the Harvard reference system. Please read carefully as evaluation of your Final Year Project work will be partially based on the way you cite references both within your Project as well as how you write the list of references used in the Bibliography section of your Project. Various sources have been reviewed to provide detailed information on how to reference.

An excellent detailed source that could be used is by:  Fisher, D. & Harrison, T. (1998). Citing References. The Nottingham Trent University. UK: Blackwell. This is available in the library.

 

Curriculum Vitae Tool

CV Europass Writing Tool 

Interlibrary Loan

Some items not available at CTL Eurocollege Library can be borrowed from the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus University of Technology collection through Interlibrary Loan.

This service has helped to broaden greatly the sources of information available to all our library users.

This service does not apply, however, to non-loanable material and other restricted categories.

Interlibrary Loan is available to academic and administrative staff as well as to all CTL Eurocollege registered students. However, although Interlibrary Loan is free for academic and administrative staff there is a charge for all students using this service.

Users wishing to borrow material through Interlibrary Loan must contact the Librarian or follow the link below:
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Remote Access to Electronic Sources
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ERC (Electronic Research Centre)

The Electronic Research Centre is an extension to the CTL Library. It is equipped with a number of PCs, and gives the opportunity to CTL Students to perform their online Research on any matter regarding their homework or their Projects, and to access material in Electronic Libraries or catalogues all over the world.