Cara Bradley

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Library SessionSociology 215

• Cara Bradley
• Distance Education Librarian

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Today we will cover . . .

• Obtaining library services/assistance
• Regina students
• Students outside of Regina
• Accessing electronic resources from home
• Important electronic resources
• WebVoyage (library catalogue)
• Library web site for Sociology 215
• Includes key databases, government documents, web
  links, and information about citing sources

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Obtaining Library Services

• Regina students
• Reference assistancelibrary reference desk
• Books and articlesvisit library
• Interlibrary loanuse online form
• Students outside Reginacontact UREAD at
  1-800-667-6014 or uread_at_uregina.ca
• Reference assistance, books and articles,
  interlibrary loancontact UREAD
• It is important that you PLAN AHEAD!

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Online resources

• The University of Regina Library makes many
  scholarly resources available online for students
  and faculty.
• From your desktop you can
• See what books and journals the library holds and
  whether or not they are currently available
• Read electronic books and electronic journals
• Search electronic databases (indexes of
  subject-specific journal literature) for articles
  on your topic
• And much more . . .

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Remote access

• Most of these resources are NOT freely available
  on the Webwe pay a subscription fee so that the
  U of R community can use them.
• In order to access from off the U of R campus,
  you need to authenticate (prove to the vendor
  that you are affiliated with the U of R) using
  your last name and barcode number.

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WebVoyage

• The Librarys Catalogue
• Look here for
• Books owned by the U of R Library
• Titles of journals (both print and electronic)
  carried by the U of R Library and the years for
  which we hold subscriptions
• DONT look here for
• titles of individual journal articles

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Lets try to findKanan, James W Pruitt,
Matthew V. Modeling Fear of Crime and Perceived
Victimization Risk The (In)Significance of
Neighborhood Integration. Sociological Inquiry,
2002, 72, 4, Fall, 527-548
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Authenticate yourself
Login using your last name (all lower case) and
library barcode
OR login using your computing services ID and
password
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Kanan, James W Pruitt, Matthew V. Modeling
Fear of Crime and Perceived Victimization Risk
The (In)Significance of Neighborhood
Integration. Sociological Inquiry, 2002, 72, 4,
Fall, 527-548
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Library Web Site for Sociology 215
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Searching Databases

• General tips
• - clearly define and narrow your topic to an
  appropriate size for the length of the assignment
• - use Thesaurus or Subject heading features
  to choose appropriate search terms (for example,
  Sociological Abstracts prefers firearms rather
  than guns)
• - use AND/OR/NOT to combine multiple terms
• - use search limit features in database
  (publication date, language, etc).

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Sociological Abstracts
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Question

• Do sports programs for youth aid in crime
  prevention?

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Citing Resources

• Scholarship and research are based on built on
  the concept of building on the research of others
  who have studied and published on related topics.
• You should incorporate the ideas of others in
  your work, but you MUST give credit to the owner
  of the idea (regardless of whether using a direct
  quotation or not)
• My adviceerror on the side of cautionthe
  consequences are too great!

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Finally, contact us!

• Regina studentsvisit the library in person or
  call the reference desk at 585-4134
• Students outside of Reginacall us at
  1-800-667-6014 or email us at uread_at_uregina.ca
• And take advantage of our online resources
  http//www.uregina.ca/library/