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LIS 100 IFEST

LIS 100 IFEST. What should you know?. What will be covered? First seven weeks of the semester Organization of material Defining your research question Searching the online catalog Searching the periodical databases Library of Congress Subject Headings Call numbers Print indices

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LIS 100 IFEST

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  1. LIS 100 IFEST What should you know?

  2. What will be covered? • First seven weeks of the semester • Organization of material • Defining your research question • Searching the online catalog • Searching the periodical databases • Library of Congress Subject Headings • Call numbers • Print indices • Netiquette IFEST

  3. What to bring and how to prepare • Something to write with • Your brain • Preparing for the IFEST • All your notes • All of your assignments • All of the tutorials • Instruction videos IFEST

  4. Details of IFEST • 65 minutes • 10, 5 and 1 minute(s) notification • Use all the time and double check your answers • Answer everything. • Don’t leave anything blank • Complete simple questions first • Remember to go back if you skipped anything • Please leave back row empty IFEST

  5. Netiquette • What is it? • Ten rules to abide by • Netiquette site • Netiquette quiz • Google: netiquette home • Core Rules of Netiquette • The Netiquette Quiz • http://www.albion.com/netiquette/ IFEST

  6. Information Competency and you • Definition • From the IC tutorial page • http://www.sac.edu/rsccdasp/InformationCompetency/index_defined.html • What is not information competency IFEST

  7. Research Process • First things first • Know your Librarian • Differences between a topic and a research question • Research question: • What do you do first? • Turn your topic into a research question • How do you do that? • What, when, where, how, why IFEST

  8. Research Process: Research Question • What is the next step once you have a research question? • Identify • Keyword(s) • Key phrase(s) • What is the next step? • Identify synonyms • Identify related terms IFEST

  9. Research Process • What type of material is best? • What type of material can be utilized? • Appropriate material • Speeches • Books • Articles • Videos • Newspaper IFEST

  10. Research Process • Bibliography vs. biography • A bibliography is • a list of sources used for your research • A biography is • a story about someone’s life. • Primary sources • Secondary sources • Tertiary sources IFEST

  11. Database Searching • Databases are made up of information called ______________ • Records are made up of ________________ • Fields are what we search. • Fields are also called access points • If you know and understand the structure of a database, you can search it more effectively. IFEST

  12. Database Searching • What is the difference between field searching and keyword searching? • What type of results do you retrieve when you use keyword searching? • What is the result of keyword searching? • False Drops – records not relevant to your search IFEST

  13. Subject Headings • From a Controlled vocabulary • Help describe the contents of an item • Help you locate other material categorized under the same subject heading • Where will you find these? • The Bibliographic record IFEST

  14. Library of Congress Subject Headings • BT • NT • SA • RT • Be able to analyze a page from Subject Headings • (Big Red Books) IFEST

  15. Online Catalog • Which type of database would this be? • Bibliographic • Numeric • Full-text IFEST

  16. Online Catalog • OPAC • Electronic catalog • Contains everything that is located in the library • Books, videos, cd’s, dvd’s, magazine titles, ebooks • (Not articles) • Search by subject, title, author keyword IFEST

  17. Online Catalog continued • Basic searching • Search for an author (field) • Search for a subject (field) • Advanced sarching • Combine more than one term • Catalogs at University libraries and Public Libraries IFEST

  18. Online catalog • Citations and their purpose • Parts of a book citation • Title • Author • Publisher • Year published IFEST

  19. Online Catalog • Bibliographic record and its parts • Author • Title • Subjects • Call number • Publisher • Date • Format: Book, video, microfilm, microfiche IFEST

  20. Organization of material • Organizes all material in libraries • All knowledge broken down into subjects • Library of Congress Classification System • Dewey Decimal system • Which is used at SAC library? IFEST

  21. Ebooks • Virtual books combined with real books • Found using online catalog • Electronic resource • Viewed only online • Not found on the shleves • Never accrue late fees IFEST

  22. Periodicals • What are they? (Three types) • Magazines • Newspapers • Journals • Why are they important? • They will have the most recent information about your topic. IFEST

  23. Periodicals • Locating past articles • Print Indices • Mostly for retrieving old articles • Only include citations • Electronic databases • Retrieve citations • Retrieve full-text • Retrieve abstracts IFEST

  24. Periodicals • Citations and their purpose • Parts of a periodical citation • Title of article • Title of source (name of magazine, newspaper, journal) • Author of article • Date of article • Page number where article can be found IFEST

  25. Peridocial databases • Purpose • to help you locate magazine, newspaper and journal articles. • Parts of periodical database record • Title of article • Title of source • Author • Date, Vol., Issue, Pages • Abstract = summary IFEST

  26. Periodical databases • Limiters • Date • Location (owned by the library) • Full-text • Peer reviewed • Publication title = source • Field searching IFEST

  27. Pedriodical database • Basic searching • Advancing searching • Field searching • Keyword searching IFEST

  28. Peridodical databases • Newspaper database will contain newspaper articles • Writing is for general public. IFEST

  29. Terms to know and what they do • Truncation • What is this? • What does this do to a search • Where can it be used in an online catalog • Boolean searching • What is this? • What does this do to a search? IFEST

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