Home Sweet Home Page--

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Home Sweet Home Page--
Or, finding your way on the University Libraries
web site.
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Home page
InfoLinks
InfoLinks Reserves Catalogs Databases Staffweb ILL
StaffWeb
Find books, journals, other materials in the
collections.
Policies, forms, student manual, calendar, and
other library information
Course Reserves
Search engines
Readings and old tests for classes.
Search the Internet for information of various
kinds.
Journals and articles
Interlibrary Loan
Other resources
Borrows and lends materials for students, faculty
and staff.
Find journals though Infolinks, and articles
through databases
Gov. Docs., Special Collections, other catalogs,
guides and tutorials.
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The Libraries home page is the key to our
resources and services--
The Libraries home page is the origin for many
collections and services in the Libraries. We are
only going to mention a few of many possible
resources.
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Home page
InfoLinks
Find books, journals, maps, recordings, and other
materials in the collections.
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InfoLinks is the Libraries catalog.
InfoLinks (under Find Books and More) shows
what we own in most collections in the various
libraries
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You may search for books and other materials by
author, title, keyword, or subject, and also by
call number (under other searches).
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Authors names are entered last name first.

• James, Henry
• Unless you want the works of James Henry, which
  would be searched Henry, James!
• Pseudonyms, such as Mark Twain, will show up if
  commonly used.
• Twain Mark -- see also Clemens, Samuel Cleburne.
• Editors will show up as authors on many edited
  works or collections.

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Search for items by title by entering the title
word by word--

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
• Initial articles (A, An, The, etc.) may be
  skipped-
• Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
• Or just Connecticut Yankee

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Use keyword searches

• If you dont know an author or have a title
• If in doubt keyword search! It is the broadest
  search in the catalog.
• You may need to experiment to find correct terms.
  
• A keyword search for mules will not necessarily
  find burros or donkeys and a search for
  jackasses may find other things.

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Subject searches are by Library of Congress
Subject Headings--

• United States History Civil War 1861-1865
• Rather than American Civil War
• Looking for information about dating? Try--
• Dating (Social Customs), Man-Woman Relationships,
  or Mate Selection
• The Library of Congress (LC) thinks of dating as
  a procedure for determining the age of an item.
• The LC is slow to change descriptive terms, since
  changes mean work for every library that uses
  them (plus some terminology is ephemeral).
• Look in InfoLinks, or try a word search and then
  click on promising subject headings to use
  subject searches.
• If you are here in Mullins Library, there is a
  set of volumes called the Library of Congress
  Subject Headings that is very useful.

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Terminology can be challenging!

• Every discipline or subject has its jargon (even
  library science).
• Not all fat cats are fat cats.

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There is a logic to the LCSH, but it takes
practice.

• If in doubt, try keyword searches first.
• For example fat cats as a keyword search in
  InfoLinks brought me two titles
• but looking at the subject headings and clicking
  on campaign funds United States retrieved 271
  other related titles.

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Try a word search try a subject search-

• What differences do you see in the results?

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Other links on the InfoLinks menu--

• WorldCat is a huge compiled catalog of library
  catalogs from all over the world shows books and
  other materials published since 1100-
• useful for recognition of whats out there? and
  also Interlibrary Loan
• Other library catalogs, including Fayetteville
  Publics, FHSs good for local information

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Home page
InfoLinks
Course Reserves
Readings and old tests for classes.
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Reserve materials

• Most are in Mullins Library at the Circulation
  desk
• But also in the Performing Arts and Media
  department, the Fine Arts Library and the Law
  Library, too.

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Lists of materials on Reserve are linked through
InfoLinks.
Search by professors name or class code and
number to find material on Reserve, i.e., Graff
or GEOG 2103. Some materials will be available
electronically!
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Course reserves include readings, old tests, and
other materials.
Search by instructors last name or the title of
the course or the code ABCD 1234, such as Chem
1103 or BIOL 3023
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The first one is on the shelf in Circulation, by
call number.
The second on is available electronically. Click
on the title link to get to the log in screen.
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Login with ones last name and ID number and the
class password to get to electronic reserves.
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Home page
InfoLinks
Course Reserves
Journals and articles
Find journals though Infolinks, and articles
through databases
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Finding journals and journal articles

• Check to see if we own a particular journal or
  magazine by searching by the title of the
  publication in InfoLinks.
• You may be able to go to electronic content in
  the journal from that record in InfoLinks.
• We also have an A-Z list of electronic journals
  linked through the home page, courtesy of Beth
  Juhl.

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Search for journals or magazines by their titles--

• Starting in InfoLinks
• U.S. News and World Report
• Journal of Applied Social Psychology
• Determine the journal or magazine from the
  citation
• Smith, Roger. Democratic Mules Eating Political
  Hay. U.S. News and World Report, June 22, 2004.

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Journal issues may be

• In the stacks, by call number
• On microfiche or microfilm, by call number
• With current issues in the Periodicals Room and
  the older issues either in the stacks or on
  microfilm or fiche
• Current issues available electronically, older
  issues in the stacks or on micro.
• Current issues and older issues available
  electronically
• Or some combination of the above.
• The record(s) will always tell you location(s)
  and holdings.

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In the stacks--
In the Periodicals Room--
Behind the Periodicals desk--
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Well use this title as an example.
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This journal is on the shelves from its
beginning, has current issues in the Periodicals
Room and current issues online.
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Heres the contents page of the online version.
Heres the table of contents for an issue lets
choose that top article.
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This screen gives us the citation and abstract,
and offers choices for the actual articles file
type. There are more steps in this sequence than
in most many journals will go directly to volume
information, or even to the issue or article.
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Use this icon to print PDFs
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Got a favorite journal or magazine?

• Take a moment and see if we have it--

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Finding magazine and journal articles--

• Starting with databases, instead of starting with
  InfoLinks?

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Databases are a major way to find citations to
articles.

• We have hundreds of databases!
• The librarians at Reference can help you select
  appropriate ones.
• Some of them, such as Ebscohost Academic Search
  Premier or ProQuest Direct (linked under Top
  Ten) will find some information on almost any
  topic.

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There are lists of databases under Find articles
and more, under the subject links and by title.
The most popular databases are linked under Top
Ten.
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Databases primarily index and sometimes link to
articles in journals, magazines and newspapers.

• Database content is controlled by the publishers,
  editors and authors.
• Most of the time, the content available through
  databases is more trustworthy and accurate than
  what may be available through the Internet.
• (However, this may be changing via Google Scholar
  and other initiatives.)

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Or, some databases have the article attached in
electronic format, usually in html or PDF--
This article is available in html, PDF and text
and graphics formats through ProQuest
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Subject-specific databases

• Such as PsycInfo, Inspec, International Index to
  Music Periodicals, etc.
• Will yield citations to more subject specific
  articles or other information.

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Try a search in a database you havent tried yet!

• Try something in your major, or for more
  excitement, try something outside your major.
• You never know who you might help.

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Home page
InfoLinks
Course Reserves
Journals and articles
Other resources
Gov. Docs., Special Collections, other catalogs,
guides and tutorials.
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• Government Documents
• GIS and Maps
• Other campus libraries
• Special Collections
• Center for Research Libraries has a collection
  of materials we may borrow from Link is on the
  home page.
• Hours, Guides, Policies and Tutorials

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Home page
InfoLinks
Course Reserves
Journals and articles
Interlibrary Loan
Other resources
Borrows and lends materials for students, faculty
and staff.
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Interlibrary Loan is another resource--

• The Interlibrary Loan department lends materials
  to other libraries and borrows materials for
  students, faculty and staff members at the
  University.

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Illiad is the software used by Interlibrary Loan
or ILL.
ILL is free to faculty, staff and students who
are currently affiliated. If you register in
Illiad, you will make interlibrary loan easier
and faster for you and for the ILL staff! Illiad
is also the system used to request materials from
storage.
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Illiad allows you to make requests, check status
of requests, see what you have checked out from
other libraries, and more!
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There are lots of other resources on the home
page that you should explore!
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Some of the other resources--

• Special Collections, Government Documents,
  Physics, Chemistry, Fine Arts, Law, and other
  campus library links
• Guides and tours
• Virtual tour
• Jumpstart
• Other tutorials
• Handouts

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Home page
InfoLinks
Search engines
Course Reserves
Journals and articles
Interlibrary Loan
Other resources
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Search Engines, and the outer Internet
We have several search engines linked through the
Libraries home page.
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This is a search box that you can use to search
our site, the University, or Googles part of the
InterWeb. Below, there are links to various
search engines and other resources.
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Databases and search engines are not
interchangeable.

• Search engines look at free content, primarily.
• Anyone with software, hardware, and connection
  can publish on the Internet.
• The content may be excellent or lackluster.
• Databases look at subscription content (we pay
  , sometimes !)
• Databases for academic libraries most commonly
  look at scholarly journals.
• The content may be excellent, or lackluster, but
  in either case it is under much more editorial
  control than most web materials.

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We have control over what we buy in the
subscription databases

• At least through the agreements with publishers
  and database providers.
• And most of it is under strong editorial control.

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We have no control over Internet content

• unless we publish it ourselves!
• Internet content may be
• Incomplete
• Inaccurate
• Ephemeral
• Some of it is terrific!
• Use InfoLinks, databases and the Internet for a
  complete search.

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Some search engines will allow you to use AND,
OR, NOT, near, with

• Google uses a default AND, and if you use OR it
  must be capitalized.
• Most search engines have search help, advanced
  search pages, and other ways to help you make
  your results more relevant to your needs.

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Home page
InfoLinks
StaffWeb
Policies, forms, student manual, calendar, and
other library information
Course Reserves
Search engines
Journals and articles
Interlibrary Loan
Other resources
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The StaffWeb is another resource available
through the home page.

• Think-gt
• calendars of events and library instruction
• directories
• forms
• frequently asked questions
• policy statements, and more!

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The StaffWeb page supplies all kinds of
employment information.
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The Library Calendar shows meetings and their
locations. The Library Student Employees page
is linked here, too.
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Home page
InfoLinks
StaffWeb
InfoLinks Reserves Catalogs Databases Staffweb ILL
Find books, journals, other materials in the
collections.
Policies, forms, student manual, calendar, and
other library information
Course Reserves
Search engines
Readings and old tests for classes.
Search the Internet for information of various
kinds.
Journals and articles
Interlibrary Loan
Other resources
Borrows and lends materials for students, faculty
and staff.
Find journals though Infolinks, and articles
through databases
Gov. Docs., Special Collections, other catalogs,
guides and tutorials.
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Questions?
Search engines
InfoLinks
Course Reserves
Other resources
Home page
Journals and articles
Interlibrary Loan
StaffWeb