Finding and Using the Librarys Education Resources

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Finding and Using the Librarys Education
Resources

• Thursday 6 September 2007
• Susan Lewis s.e.lewis_at_leeds.ac.uk
• Faculty Team Librarian (Education)

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• Today's programme -
• Library Home Page - services and resources
• Catalogue - what the Library holds and where
• Finding readings for yourself in
• e-journals
• web sites
• databases
• Searching BEI

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• Leeds University Library -
• has 2.75 million books other items
• in print and electronic (web)
• on 6 sites You will use
• Edward Boyle Library
• Brotherton Library
• Wakefield campus library
• ASK FOR HELP

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• The Edward Boyle Library -
• extra copies of textbooks on reading lists
• Reference books on Level 12
• 7 day loan books on Level 9
• High Demand Collection on Level 9, for 3 day or 4
  hour loan
• Science Engineering Main Collections

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• The Brotherton Library -
• Education books on BL West 3
• Main collections for other Arts and Social
  Science subjects
• Education print journals
• Research material

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• Activity 1
• Login to the Portal
• Click on the Computing Libraries tab

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• the Library Home Page -
• information about resources
• information about the Library

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• Activity 2 Worksheet Q1 - Q4
• Question 1 Opening hours
• Question 2 Using the Library
• Question 3 the Index
• Question 4 Subject pages for Education

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• Use the Catalogue to
• search for a book or journal
• reserve books already on loan
• view your Library record
• renew your books
• link to e-journals and e-books

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• Question 5
• Finding a book on a module reading list

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• Question 6
• Finding the text of an online journal article

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• Literature searching
• Where to look
• What am I looking for?

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• Finding readings for myself -
• Where shall I look?
• Library Catalogue
• web sites
• published bibliographies aka databases

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• Library catalogue
• for whole books and whole journals,
• searching at title level
• keyword search
• subject headings
• classmarks

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• Question 7
• Subject searching

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How to find electronic resources for Education?

• On the Library Home Page, go to the Librarys
  Subject resources for Education
• Look under Subject specific resources
• click on Databases
• click on Websites

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• a gateway
• lists sites arranged by subject
• sites are selected and assessed by experts
• for a particular audience
• quality is more important than quantity
• eg Intute http//www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/

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• Question 8
• Searching Intute

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• Database Bibliographic Database
• a bibliography
• a list of the books of a particular author,
  printer, or country, or of those dealing with any
  particular theme the literature of a subject
  (OED)

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• a search on BEI

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• Where to look
• Subject resources for Education
• Subject specific resources - click on Databases
  list with descriptions

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• What am I looking for?
• make a plan
• divide into concepts
• think about vocabulary

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• How support staff can be used to help special
  needs pupils in mainstream schools

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• Search Plan
• Write down your topic
• How support staff can be used to help special
  needs pupils in mainstream schools
• What are the main concepts, or ideas?
• support staff
• special needs pupils
• mainstream schools

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• For each concept, think of words (keywords) with
  similar meanings.
• support staff
• support teachers
• teaching assistants OR
• classroom assistants
• volunteers

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• For each concept, think of words (keywords) with
  similar meanings.
• special needs pupils
• statemented pupils
• pupils with disabilities OR
• pupils with learning difficulties
• dyslexic, visual impairment, etc

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• For each concept, think of words (keywords) with
  similar meanings.
• mainstream schools
• inclusion OR
• inclusive

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• Boolean logic
• AND to combine different concepts
• OR for alternative keywords
• NOT to exclude

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• Are there any words with alternative endings?
• Put words with similar meanings in brackets and
  link them with or, eg (teen or adolescen)
• (special need or statement or disab)

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• Use and to link the concepts
• (support staff or teaching assistant or
  classroom assistant or volunt)
• and (mainstream or inclusi)
• and (special need or statement or disab)

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• Boolean logic - use and, or, not to link keywords
• ? to truncate a wordstem eg educat? finds
  educate, education, educator(s)
• () brackets control the search order in a complex
  query eg learning and (disability or difficulty)
• " " put quotation marks around a name or phrase
  eg Department for Education and Skills
• stop words common words eg the, and, in, of are
  ignored

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• Use your plan to
• keep track of progress
• make sure you don't miss anything out
• add new words in the right place
• Modify it as you go along

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• Activity 7 Planning a search
• Work in small groups
• Fill in the search plan sheet for the topic
• How can support staff be used to help pupils
  with physical disabilities in mainstream
  schools?
• (5 mins)

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• Activity 8 Search BEI - your turn
• Question 9 on the worksheet, and BEI guide