Library Overview

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD CRL News, May 2004Vol. 65,
No. 5, P. 247
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Library Research

• First Year English
• Women and Culture
• Professor Estreich
• Monday, March 24, 2009
• Librarian Jenna Freedman

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• http//www.barnard.edu/library
• This is the portal to all knowledge.
• Or, if you insist, Library Web
• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb

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we can help you

• http//www.barnard.edu/library/reference
• Visit the reference desk
• IM BarnardReference AOL, Google, Yahoo
• Call 212.854.3953
• E-mail refdesk_at_barnard.edu

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CLIO - books, e-books, serials (not articles),
media materials, microforms, etc.

• Search for a KNOWN item
• The Sane Woman in the Attic Sexuality and
  Self-Authorship in Mrs. Dalloway
• Wolfe, Jesse. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Volume
  51, Number 1, Spring
• 2005, pp. 34-59
• Book or journal title (not the article or chapter
  title)
• Brief
• Holdings
• Full
• Table of contents, book jacket copy, notes, etc.

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search for an unknown item

• Keyword
• Words that appear in any part of the record
  (author, title, publisher, etc.)
• Fun with search results
• Sorting
• Quick limits

• Subject
• Subject headings list
• Subdivisions
• More fun with search results
• Downloading options
• Views basic full

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advanced search concepts

• Boolean logic, operators
• Controlled Vocabulary, descriptors, subject
  headings
• Limits
• Proximity, near, with, phrase
• Truncation, wild cards

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databases - primarily articles, but also e-books,
dissertations, statistics and other materials

• Answer the basic questions on slides 9-12.
• If you finish all of the regular questions on all
  of the slides, go back and tackle the bonus
  questions.

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Exercise Literature Online

• Do a quick search for lt"mrs dalloway" and
  psychogt. How many results did you get? ____
• Do a Criticism Reference search (left
  navigation bar) for lt"mrs dalloway" and psychogt.
  How many results did you get? ____
• Which result set was better? Can you find any
  ways to get more satisfying results?
• Bonus question Identify a good Author/Subject
  term from the list accessible from the Criticism
  Reference search screen.

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Exercise ProQuest Direct

• Search "Citation and abstract" for lt"mrs
  dalloway" and psychogt. How many results did you
  get? ____
• How many of them were scholarly? ____
• Search "Citation and document text" for lt"mrs
  dalloway" and psychogt. How many results did you
  get? ____
• Identify a Suggested Topic (above the results
  set) and click on it.
• Are the Subject results (from the Suggested
  Topic) better or worse than the results you
  retrieved in your previous searches?
• Bonus question Using Help, determine how to
  remove reviews from search results.

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Exercise Find Articles

• Do a General/Multidisciplinary search for lt"mrs
  dalloway and psychogt. How many results? ____
• Name one of the Topics listed on the right menu.
• Do a Literature search for lt"mrs dalloway and
  psychogt. How many results? ____
• Click the eLink arrow to see if it will lead you
  to the full text of the first result. Did it?
• Bonus question Use the Custom Search to select
  your own databases. Under Subject (on the left),
  select Literature. Under subcategories, choose
  English. From which five databases can you
  select?

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Exercise Google/Google Scholar

• Do a search in Google Scholar for lt"mrs dalloway"
  and psychologygt. How many results did you get?
  ___
• Which result (among the first 10) has been cited
  the most often?
• Click on Advanced Scholar Search. In the "without
  the words" box, add ltmoviegt. How many results did
  you get? ____
• Do a search in Google for lt"mrs dalloway" and
  psychologygt. How many results did you get? ___
• Click on Advanced Search. Search within .edu
  domain. How many results did you get? ___
• Search within barnard.edu domain. How many
  results did you get? ___
• Bonus question Within the Advanced Search page,
  click on Advanced Search Tips. How do you stop
  Google from automatically truncating (stemming)
  your word or phrase?

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etc.

• Other library catalogs (JTS, Law, TC, and other
  institutions)
• Research guide for this class
• Evaluating resources authority, scope, and
  audience.
• Wikipedia
• Style Guides
• Endnote RefWorks