Welcome to the Warren Hunting Smith Library

1
Welcome to the Warren Hunting Smith Library

• Power Searching Techniques for
• Online Library Catalogs
• Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
• Internet Search Engines and Subject Directories
• Michael Hunter
• Reference Librarian hunter_at_hws.edu
• Warren Hunting Smith Library
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges

2
Boolean AND
SCOTLAND AND GOLF
SCOTLAND
GOLF

All of these All the words Must contain
3
Boolean OR
JAZZ OR SWING
JAZZ
SWING
Any of these Some of the words May
contain
4
Boolean NOT
OPERA NOT SOAP
OPERA AND SOAP
OPERA
SOAP
None of these Exclude Must not contain
5
Complex Boolean Search
(OPERA NOT SOAP) AND (VIDEO OR DVD OR
TELEVISION)
(OPERA NOT SOAP)
(VIDEO OR DVD OR TELEVISION)

Nesting
6
Truncation

• Retrieves all variants of a word stem
• fem female, feminine, feminist, feminists,
  feminism
• Operators vary ?
• Truncation is automatic in some engines

7
PR 6068 .O93 Z532002

• Sample Call Number
• The irresistible rise of Harry Potter / Andrew
  Blake

8
Reading Call Number

• PR (alphabetical order)
• 6068 (whole number)
• .O93 (decimal number O 93/100ths)
• Z53
• 2002

9
(No Transcript)
10
(No Transcript)
11
C
12
Citations to ???

• Point you toward any written, spoken or
  broadcast source of information
• Books
• Chapter or essay within a book
• Article from a journal or newspaper
• Web site
• Interview
• Documentary video
• And more ..

13
Article

• Article title is often in quotes
• Volume and/or issue numbers given
• Page numbers
• Journal or Newspaper title is often underlined or
  italicized

14
Book

• Only one title
• Publication place, company and date given
• Imagery in sport.  Morris, Tony Spittle,
  Michael Watt, Anthony P. Champaign, IL, US
  Human Kinetics Books 2005

15
Chapter or Essay within a Book

• Look for IN
• Chapter title is often in quotes
• Authors of chapter and editors of book given
• The social logic of sparring On the body as
  practical strategist.  Wacquant, Loïc
• In Hargreaves, Jennifer Ed Vertinsky,
  Patricia Ed Physical culture, power, and the
  body. 142-157 New York, NY, US
  Routledge/Taylor Francis Group, 2007

16
Popular Magazines

• Target general audiences with popular or current
  news stories
• Authors usually not scholars of the articles
  topic(s)
• Sources of information usually not given (lack of
  footnotes or bibliography)
• Not intended as a forum for discussion of an issue

17
Peer Reviewed Journals

• Report results of actual scholarly research and
  experiments conducted by the author(s)
• Articles have been evaluated and approved by a
  panel of editorial experts (peers) in the field
• Gateways to further research through extensive
  references to other relevant scholarly sources
• Books Journal Articles
• Conference Reports Websites

18
How do you get your hands on an article?

• Is it in electronic form?
• Only a few clicks away
• Is it in print form?
• In the Current Periodical Area or Bound and in
  the stacks?

19
Article Text Available

• Full Text
• text graphics
• pdf (Adobe Acrobat)

20
(No Transcript)
21
(No Transcript)
22
Article Text Available

• Text or text graphics
• PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file
• Find It or other check for full text links
• (above, approx 10,000 titles)
• Find print journal in library with title and call
  number (for bound volumes)
• (print, approx 1100 titles in our building)
• Locate Call No. with yellow slip!

23
(No Transcript)
24
(No Transcript)
25
(No Transcript)
26
(No Transcript)
27
(No Transcript)
28
(No Transcript)
29
(No Transcript)
30
Article Text Not Available

• If you still cant find it
• REQUEST IT VIA INTERLIBRARY LOAN

31
(No Transcript)
32
Thank you andconsult with usearly and often!

• Michael Hunter
• Reference Librarian
• hunter_at_hws.edu 781-3552