Lakeside High School Library Orientation

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Lakeside High SchoolLibrary Orientation

• Our Hours
• 730 am - 330 pm

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Mrs. Rachel Shankles

• Library Media Specialist

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Library Rules

• Check out all books before exiting the library.
• Return reference material to the book cart or
  counter.
• You must be quiet, not visit, keep chairs on the
  floor and avoid rowdy behavior.

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Rules (continued)

• Return books on due date or face a fine.
• Food, gum, and drinks are prohibited.

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CONSEQUENCES

• FINES NO FINES IF POLITE
• TWO WEEK SUSPENSION OF LIBRARY VISITS FOR
  INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR.
• SEMESTER SUSPENSION OF LIBRARY VISITS FOR
  PREVIOUSLY REPRIMANDED OFFENDERS.
• THE LIBRARIAN OR HER ASSISTANTS MAY REMOVE ANY
  STUDENT FOR DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR.

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DISK OR DISC???

• When do you spell it disk and when do you use
  disc?

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DISK

• 3.5 inch floppy disk
• hard disk drive in CPU
• 5.25 inch floppy disk
• Super disk or zip

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DISC

• Audio CD
• CD-ROM
• Laser disc
• DVD

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REVIEWWhat do these mean?

• Disk usual memory storage device
• CD-ROM- compact disc read only memory
• DISC (always round)
• DVD-Digital Versatile Disc

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Act 903

• The Arkansas Library
• Privacy Act

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Dewey Decimal System

• FICTION
• NONFICTION

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FICTION

• Fiction is organized alphabetically by the
  authors last name.
• Story Collections say SC on the spine, are
  fiction, and are on the shelf by authors last
  name also

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NONFICTION

• 92/920 Biography
• 900 History
• 800 Literature
• 700 Fine Arts
• 600 Applied Science
• 500 Pure Science

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Dewey Decimal System

• 400 Language
• 300 Social Science
• 200 Religion
• 100 Philosophy
• 000 General Reference

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Reference Section

• Cant check them out
• R on the spine
• All categories 000 to 999

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Reference Books

• Too big, too tall, etc.
• Too expensive to lose
• Used too often

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Readers Guide

• Review of Magazine Indexes

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Cancer see also Breast Cancer Lymphoma My
Nightmare. O.Winfrey. Good Housekeeping. pors
11246-47 Je 6, 95. New Treatments, More Cures.
J.Ritter. Scientific American. il por 1196-7 O
10, 95.
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ReviewWhat do these mean?

• Q. Roberts
• Time
• 119 23-28
• por

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Boolean Logic

• How to tell the computer what you want it to do
  for you
• It sorts things in and sorts things out of your
  research
• You can not use sentences or phrases

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Logical Operators
AND
REQUIRES THAT THE TERMS BOTH BE PRESENT IN A
RECORD
OR
REQUIRES THAT EITHER THE FIRST OR SECOND TERM BE
PRESENT
NOT
REQUIRES THAT THE FIRST TERM BE PRESENT, BUT
ELIMINATES THE SECOND
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AND
Helicopter
Apache AND
A N D
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OR
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ANOREXIA
BULIMIA
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NOT
N O T
INDIAN
APACHE
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REVIEW BOOLEAN SEARCHING

• ABSTRACT
• EBSCO
• HIT or RESULT
• LOGICAL OPERATOR
• SEARCH TERM
• CORRECT SPELLING ESSENTIAL

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MLA WORKS CITED

• LIST OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES YOU USED TO WRITE A
  RESEARCH PAPER
• ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• REVERSE INDENT

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Parts of Books
AUTHOR. TITLE OF POEM, SHORT STORY, ESSAY, OR
CHAPTER.TITLE OF BOOK. CITY PUBLISHER, DATE.
PAGES.
Gorman, Randy. Duplex Living. City Living,
New York Chelsea House, 1994.
30-40. Stevens, Rick, and Susan Gubar. Two
Story Homes. Houses Today. Boston H.W.
Wilson, 1990. 380.
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Book with No Author
Title. City Publisher, date. Pages.
The Directory of the American Republic. New
York Bowker, 1996. 102-104.
Book with Editor
Bloom, Harold, ed. Literary Essays on American
Novelists. New York H.W. Wilson, 2001.
200-202.
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Magazines Journals
Author. Title of article, Title of
magazine date pages.
Finney, A. A Star is Born, People Weekly 10
Oct. 1995 10. Garvey, S. After All, Sports
Illustrated 9 March 1995 10-14.
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS
King, Martin L., The World Book
Encyclopedia, 1992 ed.
TOPIC, COMPLETE NAME OF ENCYCLOPEDIA, the
year of the edition ed.
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NEWSPAPERS
Author if given. Title of Article, Title of
Newspaper date Section Page.
McGovern, Clint. The King is Dead. USA Today
10 March 1998 B2 .
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VERTICAL FILE PAMPHLET
TITLE. PUBLISHER. YEAR PUBLISHED. PAMPHLET.
Warning Signs of Cancer. American Cancer
Society. 1994. Pamphlet.
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Electronic Sources (CD-ROM, VHS) Citations (Use
all info available or leave out/skip what you
cant find SIRS has no city or pub a vhs will
have city, pub and date) Author. title of
article. title of magazine. title of cd-rom,
DVD, audio, or VHS cassette. Kind of media.
City Publisher, Date. Sanders, J. Treasures.
Travel . SIRS. CD-ROM. 1998.
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Internet Citation Minimum Author if given. Title
of Home Page. date established or last revised
date you visited
site. Classic Cars. 1996 m\level 10 Feb. 98.
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Works Cited
Arbuton, Mike, ed. House on the Edge. New
York Chelsea House Publishers, 2001. Baker,
Rena. How Green Was My Bank Account.
Newsweek 17 July 1989 108. Balancing the
Budget. Good Housekeeping 12 Jan. 1975
25-28. Banking. Comptons Encyclopedia. 1987 ed.
Caldwell, Jane. The Rest of the Story. New
York Times 26 Feb. 1991 3B. Dont Risk It.
National Pharmacy Assoc. 1995. pamphlet. Halibur
ton, M. and Sue Blue. Houses. NY IRA, 1999.
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Internet Searching
Good Search Engines www.google.com www.excite.com
www.dogpile.com www.momma.com www.northernlight.c
om
Put Keywords here
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Internet Searching

• USE GOOGLE.COM AS BEST SEARCH ENGINE
• DO NOT USE SEARCH BUTTON type www.google.com into
  address line.
• USE A LONG SEARCH STRING OF WORDS 5 WORDS IS
  BEST- OR A PHRASE OF EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT IN
  QUOTES
• PUT SIGN ATTACHED TO 2ND, 3RD WORDS, ETC.
• USE QUOTES FOR PROPER NOUNS AND PHRASES

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ON OUR MEDIA CENTER WEB SITE
Http//Lakeside.rams.dsc.k12.ar.us
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For Magazines Full Text
EBSCO Magazine Index

• This has hundreds of magazines and newspaper full
  text articles.

You can reach EBSCO on all school computers and
from home for free. It is provided free by the
Ark. State Library to all libraries in our state
under a federal grant program.
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Home log in can be reached at http//search.epnet
.com User ID is Password is
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Home log in can be reached at http//search.epnet
.com User ID is Password is
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First Screen Choose Ebscohost Web
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Go down the list of databases to MAS Ultra-
School Edition
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ENTER YOUR KEYWORDS HERE
Drugs and sports and baseball
HIT ENTER
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RESULTS LIST
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Gale Discovering Series on the Web
The Gale site is free for schools and for home
login and is provided by the Ark. State Library.
It contains not magazines but primary source
documents on History, Science and Literature.
Lots of author biographies and critical
interpretations of literary works appear in the
literature section. The History section contains
timelines, maps, flags, and other information.
You use keyword Boolean searching to reach the
information you need.
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Put keywords here with and
prohibition
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Results list
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SEARCH STRATEGIES

• Card catalog (on-line or paper)
• EBSCO for magazine citations (on internet)
• Gale for history, literature, science or pictures
• Newspaper articles from several sources
• Vertical file information (articles or pamphlets)
• S.I.R.S. - full text articles on Cd-rom mostly
  journals and newspapers from all over country
• Readers Guide for additional current magazines
  or older articles from back issues in our
  collection of bound magazines to the 1950s

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Final Comments

• Read the Shelves

• Always Ask for Help