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LIBRARY RESEARCH

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LIBRARY RESEARCH

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  1. LIBRARY RESEARCH I hate PowerPoint, but maybe this will help… Enjoy the autumnal theme!

  2. Library Website • Start your research at the library website; as the Penguin Handbook suggests, “most books, films, recordings, scholarly journals, and older copies of newspapers that you can find in a large library are not on the Web” (267). • You can use the web to find sources to fill in the gaps that remain after your library and database searches.

  3. http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/

  4. Why start here... • The library’s budget includes approximately $13 million annually for acquisitions and subscriptions. Therefore, you’ll find many valuable sources (books and periodicals, paper copies and electronic copies) through UK’s library system.

  5. InfoCat

  6. What should you search for in InfoCat? • Books • Journals (by title); use databases to find particular articles. • Newspapers (by title) • Magazines • Government Documents • Audio/Visual holdings

  7. How should you search in InfoCat? • By Subject: UK’s library (and most university and large public libraries) is organized according to the Library of Congress Subject Heading system. The Big Red Books, available in the reference section of the library, include all of the subject headings in use. • By Keyword: See pages 269-73 in Penguin for useful information. • By Title: If you already know the title of one relevant book, you can search for it; then, using related record searching, you can find other sources categorized under the same LCSH. • By Author

  8. Keyword Searching

  9. Sorting Through the Results…

  10. Publication Info: Brief View

  11. Publication Info: Full View

  12. Advantages of Full View • Often, keyword searching offers an easier way to begin your exploration because you don’t need to know the specific Library of Congress Subject Headings. • However, once you find sources, you can use full view to see the subject heading(s) under which works are classified. • Using these hyperlinked subject headings is called “related record searching.”

  13. Go ahead… Click It

  14. What should you look for… • Availability • Library: Don’t spend hours in one library searching for a book that’s actually housed in another library • Date of Publication: Is it recent? For your topic, should it be recent? • Full View: Continue to pursue related record searches; in your notebook, keep track of relevant LCSHs so you can go back and use them later.

  15. More Subject Headings

  16. How do you find a book? • Write down the book’s Call Number • InfoCat is helpful; it usually gives you a floor number to go along with the Call Number. • If you can’t find a book, you shouldn’t hesitate to ask a staff member for help.

  17. What should you do when you get to the shelves? • Systematically browse the area around the title that you’re looking for. • WHY? Since the books are organized according to the Library of Congress Subject Heading system, the books immediately to the left and right of your book are probably somehow related in topic to your book.

  18. What do you mean?

  19. Should I just grab all the books? • Unless you brought your trusty wheelbarrow and you have a lot of time, no… • Selectively scan the information on these books: • Title • Date of Publication • Table of Contents • Index • Scope

  20. What else do I need to know?

  21. Things to Remember… • Squirrels can water ski. • The reference librarians (2nd floor of W.T. Young Library) are there to help you find search terms and sources. Ask them for help. • Make sure you have gone to the library to activate your library card (student ID); you can’t borrow materials or login to the databases until you do.

  22. What Should You Do With Your Library Books? • You should not write in them. • Use the Table of Contents and Index to move to the sections of the book relevant to your research. • Good researchers don’t necessarily have to read whole library books. • A quick scan of the book’s introduction and final chapter can give you a good idea of the source’s scope.

  23. Any Questions…?

  24. Let’s Review • During Unit 2, we talked about finding articles on library databases (specially LexisNexis Academic and EbscoHost); do you have any questions about either of these databases? • Another general database that you may find useful is ProQuest.

  25. Finding ProQuest

  26. Off-Campus Login

  27. Limitations of ProQuest at UK • Many databases overlap in content; therefore, individual libraries choose to pay for expensive subscriptions to certain databases and to pay for less expensive versions of other databases. • At UK, we have a stripped down version of ProQuest; however, the materials are available in other databases.

  28. Is it even worth looking at ProQuest?

  29. It depends, but you may find ProQuest’s “TOPICS” section helpful.

  30. What should you do next? • Start searching for sources now. Consult with me or a reference library if you are having trouble.

  31. What shouldn’t you do next? • This…

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