Welcome to

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Welcome to

• Library and Internet ResearchOnline and Offline
• February 22, 2001
• Ursula C. Schwerin Library
• Electronic Classroom

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Ever feel overwhelmed doing research?

• Issues of learning new technologies
• New formats for information info panic
• Too much info glut

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The result

• Inappropriate information
• Doing too much work
• Missing the best information
• Imagine how undergraduates who have never used a
  library, a computer or the Internet feel!

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A basic KISS solution

• Quality not quantity
• Know the big picture
• Expect the unexpected
• Research is a life-long learning skill

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The world of information

• Traditional library materials
• Licensed resources full-text databases and
  other sources that CUNY pays for
• Internet guides and experts
• Content websites
• Invisible web

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Approaches to research

• Finding specific facts looking up information
• Getting background information on broader topics
  exploring and learning
• Exhaustive research everything and anything
• Focused research best and most appropriate
  information resources

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Information literacy at a glance knowing

• How to locate information venues such as
  libraries and the Internet
• The tools for research
• How to use these tools
• How to retrieve research
• How to evaluate and incorporate research into
  learning including critical thinking about
  information sources

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Schwerin Library

• The library's holdings include more than
• 175,000 books
• over 600 current periodical subscriptions
• nearly 5500 audiovisual items
• extensive vertical file collections of pamphlets,
  pictures, menus, corporate annual reports, and
  career information
• Online goodies including CD-ROMs, our website,
  e-books, e-journals, databases
• Human resources library staff

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Library guide

• A web version of our library guide (final version
  coming soon)

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Dont forget about paper

• Encyclopedias and other reference works are the
  best place to begin the research process

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Books, books, books

• Interlibrary loan
• CUNY open access policy

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Finding books (and other materials)

• Two versions of CUNY online catalog older DPAC
  software and web-version

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E-books

• netLibrary

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Finding periodical articles

• Paper indexes on main floor of library
• Online indexes providing access to both citations
  and full-text
• Browsing online JSTOR

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Finding periodical articles

• Our core collection of resources
• Online indexes providing access to citations and
  full-text
• These are the so-called licensed resources that
  CUNY pays considerable amounts of for!

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Finding periodical articles

• The core of the core
• Infotrac Expanded Academic
• Lexis-Nexis
• Jackie and Morris will present on these later!

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Browsing for periodical articles

• Scholarly e-journals on the Net (free)
• Browsing online JSTOR

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More browsing

• dont forget to use bibliographies both in books
  and on the Net
• U. Houston Libraries Indexes, Abstracts,
  Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services

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Research strategies

• Write out your query as an abstract in order to
  better define and clarify it

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Research strategies

• Evaluate how much time you have and how extensive
  the research needs to be

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Research strategies

• Discuss your preliminary research with an expert
  a librarian or a subject expert

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Research strategies

• Consider presentation of information, e.g. do you
  need webpages for online teaching...

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Research strategies

• Online research is NOT about search engines
• Quality, not quantity stay focused

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Internet guides

• Consider expert websites
• The Argus Clearinghouse

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Search engines and directories

• Yahoo
• Altavista
• Google
• Dogpile

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Search engines and directories

• Become an expert or at least understand how they
  work at Search Engine Watch

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Searching in general

• Write out keywords and phrases and get comfy with
  Boolean searching

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Searching in general

• Try our tutorial on Expanded Academic ASAP to
  learn more about smart searching

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Search engines only find indexed pages

• The invisible web

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Current awareness

• Internet Scout

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Critical skills

• Evaluating Internet resources

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Information literacy, at last

• Looking again at the big picture

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Final thoughts

• Internet favorites or bookmarks are your friend
  find your favs
• Another friend your campus librarian! We love
  working with faculty