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LIS 601 Pathfinder Project
Using Information Structure to Develop Answering Skill
Fall 2010
Lori Bell based on Dr. Diane Nahl’s class/presentation
University of Hawaii LIS Program
Bell LIS 601 2010 2
Pathfinder Project
SIT
WITH
YOUR
PATHFINDER
PARTNER
Bell LIS 601 2010 3
Pathfinder Project
� Assignment Instructions pp.5-6
1. Select a partner, library, topic & audience
2. Topics are fairly specific
3. Broad topics cover too much material
4. Hawaii topics may not be well represented
in general databases & reference sources,
but may work as a sub-topic
Bell LIS 601 2010 4
Pathfinder Exercise 11. In pairs, examine one Pathfinder (online or
paper).
2. Read the assignment instructions & locate each numbered requirement on the Pathfinder.
3. Examine & discuss its style, readability & adherence to instructions.
4. Repeat with another pathfinder & compare the two.
Bell LIS 601 2010 5
Pathfinder Outline
Identify the partners
Identify the topic
Identify the audience
Identify the library
Identify some LCSH search terms
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Library of CongressSubject Headings LCSH
The Big Red Books (5 volumes, A-Z)
Authorized topic words assigned by LC catalogers
Controlled Vocabulary
Appear in the Subject(s): field of the online catalog record structure
Searchable from within a record (a lateral search strategy)
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LCSH Syndetic StructureCommunal living (May Subd Geog)
[HQ970-HQ972]
Here are entered works on arrangements in voluntary cooperative living, usually informal, including the communes that flourished beginning in the 1960's...UF Communal settlements
Communes
Cooperative living
Counter culture
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LCSH Syndetic Structure
UF = Used For = used instead of
Communal living (is Used For or instead of)
Communal settlements
Communes
Cooperative living
Counter culture
{The UF words & phrases are not LCSH}
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LCSH Syndetic Structure
Communal living [cont.] RT Collective settlements
Housing, CooperativeCommunal marriage USE Group marriageCommunal natural resources USE Natural resources, Communal
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LCSH Syndetic Structure
Communicable diseases (May Subd Geog)
[RA643-RA644 (Public health)]
[RC109-RC216 (Internal medicine)]
BT Diseases
Infection
RT Epidemics
Quarantine
NT Parasitic diseases
Vaccination
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LCSH Syndetic Structure
Communicable diseases [cont.]
SA Individual communicable diseases, e.g. Q fever
--Diagnosis--Hospitals--Prevention
NT Isolation (Hospital care)
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LCSH Subdivisions• Common Form Subdivisions
– Text p. 47– http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/reference/
formsubdiv.html
• Standard "Free-floating” & Form Subheadings:-- Pictorial works-- Research-- Sex differences-- Social aspects-- Social life and customs-- Study and teaching-- Statistics
-- Abstracts-- Bibliography-- Biography-- Case studies-- Description and travel-- Diaries-- Dictionaries-- Directories
-- Encyclopedias-- Fiction-- Handbooks, manuals, etc.-- History-- Humor-- In literature-- Juvenile literature-- Law and legislation
Bell LIS 601 2010 13
LCSH Exercise
1. What is the call number for works on
children?
2. Is Children the appropriate heading
for material about 13 year olds?
3. What heading would you use to find
material on children of Afganistan?
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LCSH Exercise
4. Which terms are not used to search for
materials on children when you want to
do a pure LCSH search?
5. Is Age groups a subdivision under the
heading Children?
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LCSH Exercise
6. What is the appropriate heading for materials on Mozart as a child?
7. Which LCSH term(s) would you use to search for materials on kids who have been molested or mistreated?
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LCSH Exercise
CHILDREN (May Subd Geog)
[HQ767.8-HQ792.2]Here are entered works on people from
birth through twelve years of age.UF Childhood
Pedology (Child study)BT Age groups
Family
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LCSH ExerciseCHILDREN [cont.]SA subdivision Childhood and youth under
names of individual persons; also subdivision Children under individual wars, e.g., World War, 1939-1945--Children
NT Abused children Adopted children Adult children
--Abuse ofUSE Child abuse
--Attitudes--Biography
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Pathfinder Exercise 2
1. Partners work together.
2. Select a preliminary topic & write a few words that describe it.
3. Look them up in LCSH.
4. Examine all Subject Headings related to the topic, follow all SAs, RTs & NTs
5. Write down a set of LCSH terms for the topic to use as a starting point for the search strategy.
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Thinking Through Information Structure
Handouts pp. 2-5 Information Structure of Reference
Sources Categories of Information in Answer-
Providing Sources Data & Access Tools
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Search Exercises
Search Exercises (Green) pp. 2-6 Read pp. 2-6 on Periodical Indexes &
Abstracts for next week. No online sources used in Exercise 1A. The 601 Bibliography lists sources to use
for the search exercises. Searches begin in class next week
(not for homework this week).
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Due Next Week Email your Pathfinder Outline: partner names,
library, topic, audience & LC Subject Headings
One (1) email message with both partners’ email
address on the header so I can reply to both at
once, paste outline in the message
HANDOUTS pp. 6-13
Read SEARCH EXERCISES pp. 2-6
TEXT CHAPTER 8
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Outline Due Next WeekFrom: [email protected]: [email protected]: Lee & Holmberg Pathfinder OutlinePartners: Leon Lee and Roberta HolmbergLibrary: Manoa Public LibraryTopic: Laser Skin TherapyAudience: Adults who want to get rid of sun
damage, wrinkles, varicose veins, hair, acne, or birthmarks without invasive surgery.
LCSH: Lasers in surgery; Phototherapy