Dialog 2 Real Life Search 2

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Dialog 2Real Life Search 2

• March 5, 2006

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Todays Agenda

• Review Dialog Assignment
• Dialog again
• Review commands
• New commands
• Hands on
• Real Life Search follow up
• Interview practice
• Review successful RLS

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Dialog Assignment
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Review Dialog Commands

• (w) Proximity operator
• Expand
• Limit
• Sort
• Cost
• Others?

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Proximity Operator (w)

• () or (w) Terms must be adjacent to each other
  and in the order specified
• s secular()humanism
• s holy(w)grail
• (w) Terms must be within words of each other
  and in the specified order
• s international (3w) policy

note () (w)
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Expand

• Find out what the database calls it, then select
  it
• Useful for
• Personal or corporate names
• Author affiliations
• Keywords
• Abbreviations, alternate spellings

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Expand Example

• Looking for articles by Candy Schwartz
• ?b 438
• e auschwartz, c?

• Ref Items Index-term
• E1 11 AUSCHWARTZ, BARBARA A
• E2 1 AUSCHWARTZ, BILL N
• E3 0 AUSCHWARTZ, C?
• E4 4 AUSCHWARTZ, CANDY
• E5 67 AUSCHWARTZ, CAROLYN S

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438 (Library Literature)
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Limit

• Narrow results from an existing set

?s beagles or basset hounds S1 1803 beagles
or basset()hounds ?s s1/20012004 11540
PY2001 PY2004 S2 477 S1/20012004
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Examples of Limit Types

• Usually available
• /PY
• s s1/2005
• /ENG
• s s1/eng
• Sometimes available
• /MAJ
• /LONG or /SHORT
• /ABS or /FULLTEXT

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Limited Search

• In ERIC, limit search on learning disabilities to
  those where that term is a MAJOR descriptor

?b1 ?s learning(w)disabil? 239060 LEARNING
(PROCESS OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES,)
53758 DISABIL? S1 14937
LEARNING(W)DISABIL? ?limit s1/maj S2 10663
S1/MAJ
1 (ERIC)
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Sort

• How do you know what sort options are available?
• bluesheets
• Default sort order for dates, numbers?
• Earliest, lowest first
• Command to sort by newest, highest?
• sort s1/all/pd,d

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Sort Example Search
Find Connecticut companies with fewer than 50
employees. Sort by companies with most number of
employees.

• B 535
• Set Items Description
• S2 82700 EMlt50
• S3 3676 ST'CT'
• S4 1733 S2 AND S3
• S5 1733 Sort S4/ALL/EM
• S6 1733 Sort S4/ALL/EM,D

535 (Thomas Register Online)
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Sorted Results

• ?sort s4/all/em
• Set 5
• ?t s5/co,em/1-3
• 5/CO,EM/1
• Tusk Direct Inc.
• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 9
• 5/CO,EM/2
• International Configurations, Inc.
• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 10
• 5/CO,EM/3
• Sheaves, Inc.
• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 10

• ?sort s4/all/em,d
• Set 6
• ?t s6/co,em/1-3
• 6/CO,EM/1
• Paneloc Corp.
• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 49
• 6/CO,EM/2
• Cadi Company Inc.
• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 47
• 6/CO,EM/3
• JFD Tube Coil Products, Inc.
• NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES 43

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COST
?logoff ?cost

• 18feb04 165102 User007088 Session C964.4
• 0.75 0.050 Hrs File155
• 0.00 4 Type(s) in Format 3
• 0.00 4 Types
• 1.75 Estimated cost File155
• 0.75 INTERNET
• 1.50 Estimated cost this search
• 3.80 Estimated total session cost 0.080 Hrs.

155 (Medline)
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COST tells you

• how long youve been in THIS FILE (.05 hrs)
• how many ITEMS you typed in what FORMAT (4 _at_
  format 3)
• estimated cost for THIS FILE(155) 1.75
• cost for online (INTERNET) .75
• estimated cost for THIS SEARCH 2.50
• IGNORE estimated cost for this search and
  total session cost

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but its not the whole story

• Look in bluesheets for charge for format 3
  file155
• Charge per format 3 .21 x 4 .84
• Add above costs to charges from COST command
• Est. cost for THIS FILE 1.75
• Cost for online (INTERNET) .75
• Cost for 4 _at_ format 3 .84
• TOTAL cost this search 3.34

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New Dialog Commands

• Find databases by search field
• Select Steps (ss)
• Remove Duplicates
• KWIC

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Find Databases by Search Field

• Why would you want to do this?
• How find fields to search?
• Bluesheets
• Databases by Search Options at
  http//library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bli.html
  

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Databases by Search Options
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Record Type in ALA Directory

• b 460
• e rt

E4 480 RTCONSORTIA E5 37193
RTLIBRARY E6 480 RTNETWORK E7 37673
RTRECORD E8 170 RTSCHOOL
460 (American Library Directory)
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RTImage (sometimes)
b226 s rtimage and book? 2229 results Book in
a Box result 8
226 (TrademarkScan)
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Select Steps ss

• ss select steps
• Select item for searching Show each item as
  separate set (step)
• Mix -n- match all sets

?ss dogs or beagles or greyhounds S9 248631
DOGS S10 2270 BEAGLES S11 460
GREYHOUNDS S12 248693 DOGS OR BEAGLES OR
GREYHOUNDS S13 460 S11 AND S12
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Select Steps Example

• ?b 15
• ?ss insurance industry and terror? and pric? and
  rtfulltext
• S8 29271 INSURANCE INDUSTRY
• S9 26256 TERROR?
• S10 530455 PRIC?
• S11 370128 RTFULLTEXT
• S12 202 INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND TERROR?
  AND PRIC? AND RTFULLTEXT
• ?s insurance rates and s9 and s11
• 3692 INSURANCE RATES
• 26256 S9
• 370128 S11
• S13 114 INSURANCE RATES AND S9 AND S11

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Display Specific Results

• Identify items to print in full-text from
  citation format
• Note item numbers
• Then type
• ?t s4/9/1,7-9,21

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Remove Duplicates rd

• Use when searching more than one database at a
  time
• Remove duplicate articles indexed by each
  database if likely to be overlap
• aka de-dupe

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Remove Duplicates search

• ?b 1, 437
• S1 1951 SECOND()LANGUAGE()ACQUISITION
• S2 15738 'GRAMMAR'
• S3 347 S1 AND S2
• ?rd
• S4 329 RD S3 (unique items)

437 (Education Abstracts)
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Problems with rd

• Are these the same?
• Digital library opportunities.
• Journal of Academic Librarianship
• and
• Digital Library Opportunities
• The Journal of Academic Librarianship (J Acad
  Libr)

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KWIC

• KeyWord In Context
• Find where your term appears in the record
• Google results KWIC

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KWIC in Dialog

• Displays a window of text that contains your
  search terms
• May be used alone or with other formats
• Command kwic or k
• Use when typing results
• t s1/k/1-5 or t s1/medium,k/1-5

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KWIC Search

• ?b15
• ?s google(3n)billion(3n)page?
• 2387 GOOGLE
• 280313 BILLION
• 183605 PAGE?
• S1 22 GOOGLE(3N)BILLION(3N)PAGE?

?sort s1/all/pd,d ?t s3/3,k/1-5
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KWIC Results

• ?t s3/3,k/1-5
• Topic Maps
• Kay, Russell
• Computerworld v38n40 PP 26 Oct 4, 2004
• ISSN 0010-4841 JRNL CODE COW
• WORD COUNT 1060

TEXT but the growth of available information has
rendered even those remarkable tools far less
useful. Google currently indexes more than 4
billion pages, and queries often return tens of
thousands of pages, but they are arranged in no...
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Stack (geeky)

• Use if you want to run multiple commands at once
• Separate with semicolon
• Most useful if you are good at searching
  confident of search results

?b15 s google(3n)billion(3n)page? sort
s1/all/pd,d t s2/3,k/1-5
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Practice

• Revisit questions from first assignment?
• or
• Start on 1st question from second assignment?

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Assignment Tips Why Results?

• You said I looked for herbicides and tomatoes,
  truncating each. But I didnt get any results,
  so there isnt anything on the two.
• s herbicide?(w)tomato?
• 52. HERBICIDE?
• 137. TOMATO?
• S1 0. HERBICIDE?(W)TOMATO?

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Adding Value to Results

• Put assignment answer right below question
• Prepare results for me collect relevant
  search terms, strategy from your search.
• I wont wade through pages pages of relevant
  extraneous material looking for gold
• Consider that I am your client/patron present
  your hard work in a meaningful way

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Real Life Search Success!

• Sample comments from former clients
• Review successful RLS

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Client Comments

• As we have paid consultant grant writers 50 per
  hour and gotten nothing, this at 6 hours per week
  per person would equal 900 per week. With a
  semester averaging 10 weeks, that would be
  9,000. Since we allocated 7,000 for grant
  writing for the whole year this is a sizable gift
  to us. Thank you!
• Yes, the information is exactly the type I was
  looking for and is presented in a way that will
  be useful and easy to access when we need it.
  Very impressive final product.

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Sample Interview
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Real Life Search Review
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bq Search Wisdom

• Stages of Online Searching
• Reference interview
• Database selection
• Search strategy formulation
• The online search
• Feedback, or reviewing results
• Presenting final search results
• There are three kinds of research good, fast,
  and cheap but you only get two out of three.

Paraphrased from barbara quint
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Reference Interview

• Research Interview Form as guide to questions
  not for client to complete!
• Background research on client to be familiar with
  their world
• Prepare to explain library world to client in
  terms they can understand
• Ask questions client will understand

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Math the Reference Interview

• Precision recall
• Equations for query information need
• Need gt Query
• Need lt Query
• Little overlap between 2
• Need Query
• How address mismatches?
• Reference interview
• Knowledge of subject

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Reference Interview

• Common sense
• Good manners, listening
• Body language, eye contact
• Types of patrons
• Balance between patron request likely needs
• Art form
• Translate between patron database

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Need gt Stated Query
Patrons Information Need
Stated Query
Query I want to make a web site.
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Need lt Stated Query
Stated Query
Patrons Info. Need
Query I want to know about Lincoln
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Little Overlap Between Query Need
Patrons Information Need
Stated Query
Query Whats the Sierra Club doing?
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Need Query
Patrons Information Need Stated Query
Query Writing a paper on Turn of the Screw
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Due Next Week

• Dialog 2 assignment
• Chat on Wednesday?
• RLS topic client due in class
• Work on RLS search form with team
• Tip sheet database, audience due in class