Put It In Writing Your Library

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Put It In Writing _at_ Your Library

• Part Two
• Whats Already Out There?
• Kitty Mackey
• Clark College
• April 8, 2003

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Whats already out there?

• Use an index to search for magazine articles
  (major magazines)
• Library
• Online Indexes
• Print Indexes
• Publications Web Pages -- some include indexes
• Annual index within the publication?

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Searching is a word game!

• Start with broad terms
• Add additional terms to focus
• Try several different indexes!

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Which Index?

• How do you know which index to use for a specific
  publication?
• Check ULRICHS Guide to periodicals

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Check the Web Site!
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Researching Content

• Indexes articles
• Catalogs Books
• Reference Books Overview
• Web Well, all the above, maybe, and more, maybe

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Indexes

• General (General Reference Center, etc.)
• Subject Specific
• PsycInfo (Psychology)
• Social Sciences Index
• General Science
• etc.

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Keep a Keyword Kollection

• Happy
• Successful
• Success
• Peaceful
• harmonious

Marriage Family Spouses Husband Wife
Pet Pets Animal(s) Dogs Cats Ferrets Iguanas
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Search Tips for Databases

• Boolean Operators
• And
• Or
• Truncating
• ?

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Boolean Operator and

• Happy marriage
• Searches specific phrase.
• How to have a happy marriage
• Happy and marriage
• Both words, not always next to each other
• How my marriage has stayed happy
  for 23 years

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Boolean Operator or

• Happy and marriage and (pets or animals)
• How pets have kept my marriage happy
• How animals have kept my marriage happy
• Pets and animals have kept my marriage happy.

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Truncating
Happy and marriage and (pet or animal)

• pet
• pet
• pets
• petting
• petty

animal animals animalistic
Caution Heavy petting in a happy marriage!
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Catalogs Locate Books

• Use the Library Book Catalog
• Start with keyword search
• Use Subject Headings for more precise searching.

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Reference Tools Background

• General encyclopedias background
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Worldbook Encyclopedia
• Subject-Specific encyclopedias depth

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The WWW Evaluate!

• Who?
• What?
• When?
• Where?
• Why?

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• Most Important
• Ask A Librarian!