English 1213 Dr. Gaydosik

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English 1213Dr. Gaydosik

• Session 1
• Introduction to Information Literacy, Search
  Techniques Finding Books

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Part 1

• Information
• Literacy

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Information Literacy

• It is a set of abilities requiring individuals to
  recognize when information is needed and have the
  ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively
  the needed information.

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Library Instruction in the Information Age

• A single current newspaper contains more written
  and visual information than the average person in
  the 17th Century was likely to come across in
  their entire lifetime. There are many areas of
  literacy that all add up to Information Literacy
  Cultural, Visual, Media, Network, Computer,
  Traditional Alphabetic Literacy, and Library
  Instruction.

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DID YOU KNOW
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Educational Goals for 21st Century

• Teach students to be self-directed understand
  how to organize more more of their own
  learning.
• Teach students the importance of global
  communication.
• Teach students to deal with massive amounts of
  information.

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Part 2

• Search
• Techniques

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Keywords

• Flexible terms
• Easy searches
• Less accurate searches

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Identifying Keywords

• Identify the significant terms and concepts that
  describe your topic from your thesis statement or
  research question.
• These terms will become the key for searching
  catalogs, indexes, and databases for information
  about your subject.

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Keyword Phrases

• Single concept, multiple words
• Some electronic resources require keyword phrases
  be enclosed with punctuation
• Quotation marks
• Parenthesis

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Keyword Phrases

• Basic phrase
• Proper names
• Hyphenated words
• Slogans, advertisements
• Famous quotes
• Movie titles, song titles, etc.

• (criminal justice)
• Native American
• (x-ray)
• Im lovin it
• (to be or not to be)
• Lord of the Rings

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Paper Topics

• Lottery
• Home schooling
• Closed campus
• Learning disabilities
• Textbook prices
• Standardized testing
• Violence

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Textbook pricing

• First, narrow down the topic
• Which textbooks are you talking about?
• What about pricing?
• Focus on
• Rising cost for students
• Profit for publisher and authors
• Cost of paper/natural resources
• Role of colleges/universities to intercede
• How do students off-set this cost? More work
  hours/multiple jobs? More loans/scholarships?
  More credit card debt?

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How AND is used

• AND (narrows)
• textbook and college
• textbook and college and price increases

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Select three keywords
College
Student
Textbook prices
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How OR is used

• OR (expands)
• college or university
• increases or rising
• AND OR together
• college or university and textbook
• increases or rising and textbook cost

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Select related terms
Undergraduates
University
inflation
College
Student
Textbook prices
Collegian
Higher Education
College expenses
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Search Strategy

• Endless possibilities
• student OR collegian AND textbook AND cost
• student AND textbook pricing AND college OR
  university
• textbook AND college AND inflation

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How NOT is used

• NOT (excludes)
• collegian not graduate
• inflation not banking
• AND, OR NOT together
• Textbook cost and student or collegian not
  graduate

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Boolean Operators

• Connect keywords only
• Must be placed between keywords
• AND
• Narrows your search
• OR
• Expands your search with synonymous terms
• NOT
• Excludes words from your search
• If used too much, it can work against you!

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Truncation (Wildcards)

• Non-universal symbols used in searching
• Common symbols ?
• Used with a root word
• Used to replace a vowel or single character

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Truncation (Wildcards)

• Root Word- looks for multiple endings of a word,
  in this case it takes the place of OR
• pric?
• price, prices, pricing, priced
• textbook and pricing or prices or price
• textbook and pric?

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Truncation (Wildcards)

• Singular/Plural- replaces a vowel or single
  character in a word, in this case it takes the
  place of OR
• analyss
• analysis, analyses
• cost and analysis or analyses
• cost and analyss

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Class Activity

• Shuffle Up and Deal

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Part 3

• Finding
• Books

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Reference Materials

• Almanacs, dictionaries, handbooks, and
  encyclopedias are useful tools for finding quick
  facts, statistics, or a broad overview of your
  topic.
• If you don't know much about your topic already,
  these tools can be a good place to start.

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Library Catalog

• Search for books, e-books, and videos
• Renew your borrowed items
• Accessible from off-campus with no restrictions
• Operates best with
• the presented search
• techniques

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Library Catalog Found Here
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Library Catalog
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E-Books

• NetLibrary
• 1 user/book
• In library catalog
• Account

• Ebrary
• Multiple users/book
• Autonomous
• Personal Bookshelf

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WorldCat
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Part 4

• Library
• Services

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Library Services
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Off Campus Access
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Off Campus Access

• Library Catalog is open to public
• E-Book usage is restricted to SWOSU
• Article databases are restricted to SWOSU

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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

• Requires time management skills
• Normal processing time is 5 to 7 business days
  (M-F)

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Ask-a-Librarian
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Work in Progress
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End of Session 1

• Thank You
• for listening