1. DEFINING:• What does the topic ask? • What do you already know about the topic? • What do you need to know - questions and headings, keywords and search terms? • What are all the places you might find information - search plan. •  • 2. LOCATING:• Find the resources listed in your search plan, such as encyclopedias, internet addresses, non-fiction books and CD-

roms; • Locate information in the resources using key words and search terms to look in the index and table of contents and

library inquiry computer. •  • 3. SELECTING:• Identify the sources which have the most useful information to answer the focus questions; • Write notes from relevant sources using a note-taking grid; • Record where the information came from for the bibliography, e.g. author, title, publishing information; •  • 4. PROCESSING AND ORGANIZING:• Sort the information into the headings which answer the focus questions; • Compare the information to find out any differences in the information; • Collect any pictures, photographs or tables to use; • Identify any areas where further/different information is needed and try to locate sources for that; • Decide on the format for the presentation of the project. •  • 5. CREATING AND SHARING:• Complete the project in the chosen format; • Present the project to the teacher or class as required. •  • 6. EVALUATING:• Look back over the project and decide if the focus questions have been answered well and presented in the best way ; • Talk to the teacher about the presentation.

GOING TO THE LIBRARY BE PREPARED.

1. UNDERSTAND YOUR ASSIGNMENT.2. BRING YOUR ASSIGNMENT. SPELL YOUR

TOPIC CORRECTLY.3. BRING YOUR LIBRARY CARD AND YOUR

PASS.4. BRING CHANGE TO MAKE PHOTOCOPIES.5. BRING A NOTEBOOK OR NOTECARDS TO

TAKE NOTES AND RECORD THE SOURCES USED.

6. BRING PENS, PENCILS, PAPERS, EXTRA ERASER, CALCULATOR, RUBBER BANDS FOR YOUR NOTECARDS, AND A BACKPACK (MAKE SURE WHETHER IT HAS TO BE CLEAR OR MESH).

7. PLAN TO BE AT THE LIBRARY FOR AT LEAST ONE TO TWO HOURS. KNOW WHEN THE LIBRARY OPENS AND CLOSES OR WHEN YOU NEED TO BE BACK TO CLASS.

KEY WORDSAND THE INDEX

• 1. SOMETIMES THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO LOOK UP A TOPIC. MAKE A LIST OF SYNONYMS AND RELATED WORDS FOR YOUR TOPIC.

• 2. THE BEST WAY TO USE AN ENCYLOPEDIA IS TO START AT THE BACK WITH THE INDEX. THE INDEX WILL TELL YOU EVERY PLACE IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA YOUR TOPIC IS MENTIONED AND NOT ALL TOPICS HAVE THEIR OWN ARTICLES. THE INFORMATION MAY BE BURIED IN ANOTHER ARTICLE.

1. A GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIA IS MADE UP OF MANY VOLUMES, OR BOOKS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. THEY ALSO COME ON CD-ROMS OR ONLINE, SUCH AS AVL. IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO USE THE MOST RECENT COPYRIGHT, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.2. SPECIAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS ARE DEVOTED TO SINGLE SUBJECTS, SUCH AS WILDLIFE, ANIMALS, SPORTS, AND ETC.3. ENCYCLOPEDIAS ARE NONCIRCULATING OR REFERENCE BOOKS AND ARE NOT CHECKED OUT OF THE LIBRARY.4. YOU SHOULD READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, INCLUDING ALL SIDEBARS, PICTURES, CAPTIONS, AND DIAGRAMS.5. TO HELP YOU READ THE ARTICLE, THERE ARE HEADINGS IN BOLDFACE TYPE AND UNDER EACH HEADING, THERE ARE SUBHEADS. SCAN THESE AND THEY WILL HELP YOU ZERO IN ON THE INFORMATION YOU NEED.

• 1. DICTIONARY - GET BASIC FACTS SUCH AS THE MEANING, ORIGIN, PROUNCIATION, AND SPELLING OF THE WORD.

• 2. ENCYCLOPEDIA - HAS BASIC INFORMATION. TWO TYPES ARE GENERAL AND SPECIAL

• 3. ATLAS - MAPS• 4. ALMANAC - BOOK OF FACTS, GRAPHS, AND

CHARTS.• 5. YEARBOOK - INFORMATION FROM A

PARTICULAR YEAR.• 6. FIELD GUIDES• 7. BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES• 8. GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES• 9. QUOTATION BOOKS• 10. THESAURUSES• 11. TELEPHONE BOOKS

• There is a special reference section that CAN NOT be checked out because the materials are so expensive. Be sure to use them for your research. These materials are excellent and recent.

HOW TO FIND INFORMATION IN MAGAZINES AND

NEWSPAPERS

1. To find information in magazines, use The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature index listed under topic. Many libraries also have magazine indexes on computer such as Wilson Disc and Infotrac. Alabama Virtual Library is a great site for periodicals.2. Most newspapers are not indexed. They are only listed by date. They may be available in print form, CD ROM, microfilm, microfiche or on-line.

OTHER RESEARCHDon't forget to use these resources:1. Photographs, illustrations, and diagrams2. Videos, movies, and TV3. Maps4. Tourist Bureaus, and Chamber of Commerce5. Organizations and associations6. Banks, companies, government agencies, movie companies, museums, publishers, sports teams, zoos, archives, historical sites and societies, and interviews

HANDS-ON RESEARCHHANDS-ON RESEARCH

1. Observations - doing your own is great.2. Experiments3. Cooking and Eating4. Making and doing things yourself

A SAMPLE EXPERIMENT1. Develop a question.2. State a hypothesis3. Perform an experiment4. Observe5. Record observations6. Compare7. Draw your conclusion8. Write up your experiment

1. E-mail2. Encyclopedias and other reference books.3. Magazines and Newspapers4. Chat Rooms and Newsgroups5. Business web sites.6. Education web sites7. Museum web sites8. Tourist Bureaus, Chamber of Commerces, organizations, government agencies, zoos, sports teams, historical sites, and just about any information you want.

• ONLINE PATRON ACCESS CATALOG (OPAC) - You can search the library database (what used to be called the card catalog) here. You can search using several entry points: title, author, subject, series, keyword.

• ALABAMA VIRTUAL LIBRARY (AVL)

http://www.avl.lib.al.us/ - You can access it from school without a password, but you need a user name and password to use at home.

World Almanac SIRS Discoverer    

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia MEDLINE

SIRS Knowledge Source Newspaper Source Encyclopedia of Animals Kids InfoBits    

Dictionary of Literary Biography Searchasaurus

Oxford English Dictionary Alabama Mosaic

Military & Government Collection AccessScience

Britannica Online School Edition Middle Search Plus

Biography Reference Bank Alabama Libraries

LitFinder (Poems) (Stories) (Essays) (Plays) (Speeches) Contemporary Authors

Auto Repair Reference CenterAuto Repair Reference Center LegalTrac

History Reference Center ERIC

QUICK INTERNET DEFINITIONS1. Browser - software that helps you use the

Internet - Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

2. Commerical Provider - Company you use to hook up to the Internet.

3. Home Page - Introductory page of a web site.4. Link - highlighted type that you click on to allow

you to go to other parts of the web site.5. Lurk - Ghosting- to read newsgroup or mailing

list messages, or a conversation going on in a chatroom without posting or participating.

6. Search Engine - computer software available on the Internet that allows you to search the web using key words.

7. URL - Universal Resource Locator - address for a web site.

8. Web Site - group of pages on the World Wide Web created by a particular group.

9. World Wide Web - the multimedia part of the Internet that has information in many forms such as print, pictures, sound, and video - has hypertext that uses links to navigate.

Simple Works Cited

• You must include this information:• NAME OF THE SITE• URL• WHAT YOU FOUND AT THIS SITE

• You must have a WORKS CITED PAGE or a BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE with all reports, projects, and etc. The following slides show examples of these pages.

• Information from:• Encarta Online: Monarch Butterfly • http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=01095000• The Florida Monarch Butterfly Website• http://adver-net.com/FMonHome.html• Monarch Watch• http://monarchwatch.org/• Pictures from:• Monarch Watch Multimedia Gallery• http://monarchwatch.org/gallery/index.htm• Butterfly Gallery• http://www.smm.org/sln/monarchs/archive/gallery.html

Web Sites for my Butterfly Project

• Information Gathered from: • Commonwealth of Kentucky: Paul E. Patton Governor• http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/gov/govmenu6.htm• I got the email address of Kentucky’s governor from this site.• 50 States and Capitals• http://www.50states.com/kentucky.htm• I got information about Kentucky’s flag, state song, state bird, and other information from this site. • How far is it?• http://www.indo.com/distance/• I found out how far it is from my city to Kentucky.• Images Collected from:• The Kentucky Department of Travel• http://www.state.ky.us/tour/tour.htm• I got photographs of Kentucky at this site.• 50 States and Capitals• http://www.50states.com/kentucky.htm• I got a picture of the state of Kentucky, the state flag, and the state bird.• Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer• http://www.uky.edu/KentuckyAtlas/kentucky.html• I got some great pictures of the state of Kentucky at this site.• Sounds Collected from and authorization received:• The Looney Tunes SoundSource• http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/• I got sound effects from this site.• 50 States and Capitals• http://www.50states.com/songs/kentucky.htm• I downloaded Kentucky’s state song from this site.

Web Sites for My State Report

EXAMPLE OF A WORKS CITED PAGE

• “Barn Owl.” Encarta Online. 1997-99. Microsoft Corporation. 22 Sept. 1999 <http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=0684E000>.

• Grondahl, Chris and John Schumacher. The Owls of North Dakota. 16 Jul. 1997. North Dakota Game and Fish Department, Bismarck, ND. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. 22 Sept. 1999 <http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/owls/owls.htm>.

• Lewis, Deane P. The Owl Pages. 17 Sept. 1999. 22 Sept. 1999 <http://www.owlpages.com/>.

• The Owl Centre: Helping to Save the World’s Owls. 3 Sept. 1999. The World Owl Trust. 22 Sept. 1999 <http://www.owls.org/>.

• Pinkerton, Brian. "Owl Survey." E-mail to Peggy Whitley. 2 Sept. 1999.

WORKS CITED

• It is the school's policy to follow the federal copyright law. Students are reminded that, when using school equipment and when completing course work, they also must follow the federal copyright laws. The federal copyright law governs the reproduction of works of authorship. Copyrighted works are protected regardless of the medium in which they are created or reproduced; thus, copyright extends to digital works and works transformed into a digital format. Copyrighted works are not limited to those that bear a copyright notice.

• The "fair use" doctrine allows limited reproduction of copyrighted works for educational and research purposes. The relevant portion of the copyright statue provides that the "fair use" of a copyrighted work, including reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" is not an infringement of copyright. The law lists the following factors as the ones to be evaluated in determining whether a particular use of a copyrighted work is a permitted "fair use," rather than an infringement of the copyright:

• * the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;* the nature of the copyrighted work;* the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole, and* the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Under the image: © Date Company/Person’s Name

© 2002 John Doe

How to Give Acknowledgement for a

Copyrighted Image

• Plagiarism is a form of fraud. You plagiarize if you present other writers' words or ideas as your own. You must use citations to document all ideas and significant information that are not your own. Do not copy directly from the reference material. Paraphrase all work. That means put it in your own words.

• Each student and faculty member signed one.

• Be sure to follow the rules.

• Do not go on an unacceptable site.

• Report any problems to your teacher or Media Specialist.

• Do not go in anyone else’s folder, website, or use their library number.

Use this sheet to keep track of your research project and to think about how wellyou did on each step.As you complete each part, rate yourself from 1 (I didn't work very hard on this partand it shows) to 5 (I did my very best on this part and I'm happy with the results).

• Locating many sources of information. Rating:• Taking detailed notes (in my own words). Rating:• Organizing notes into categories. Rating:• Identifying missing information and tracking it down. Rating:• Preparing a good first draft. Rating:• Editing first draft with teacher's/classmates' suggestions.

Rating:• Writing my final report (including correct spelling, punctuation,• footnotes). Rating:• Preparing my bibliography. Rating:• Using illustrations, maps, charts. Rating:• Making a presentation. Rating:

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