SAKAE INSTITUTE

Kelly Kobiela, Systems Librarian

Heterick Memorial Library

WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY

Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu Heather Crozier, h-crozier@onu.edu Kathleen Baril, k-baril@onu.edu

Reference Email, reference@onu.edu

Librarians on duty: Monday – Friday

8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

LIBRARIES AT ONU

Heterick Memorial Library Undergraduate library

and accessible to all students

Taggart Law Library Library for law school

and accessible to all students

WHAT THE LIBRARY OFFERS:

~400,000 items in POLAR, the ONU library catalog

~20,000,000 items in OhioLink 260 Databases 400+ print periodicals Tens of thousands of electronic journal titles Juvenile, Young Adult, and Graphic Novel

collections DVDs, CDs, streaming audiovisuals, and

streaming music

CATALOGS – BOOKS AND MEDIA POLAR Catalog – Search for physical and electronic

items (ebooks and ejournals) that are available from Heterick Memorial Library and Taggart Law Library

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: KEYWORD SEARCH

Looks in several locations Subject Article title Abstracts Table of contents

Does not require an exact match Generates comparatively large number of

hits Good if you are not familiar with terminology Good for a beginning search

FIND A BOOK – POLAR: SUBJECT SEARCH

Looks at the subject headings in the records Requires an exact match Provides a results list with related headings

to use for broader and narrower searches Generates comparatively smaller number of

hits Good if you are familiar with terminology Good for a next step after a keyword search

CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

POLAR – RESULTS

ebook

Law Library

Heterick Library

CHECKING OUT ITEMS

Checkout and due dates Book check out is for 21 days DVD check out is for 7 days

Renewals Up to 6 renewals, provided no one else has put a

hold on the item Fines

$.10 - $1.00, depending on how overdue and what type of item

Can be paid at the circulation desk My Library Account

POLAR – MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT

ONU ID CARD = LIBRARY ID CARD

Use the entire 11 digit number to login

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK

Materials owned by 92 other libraries in Ohio: colleges, universities, public libraries

Can submit request for an item to be delivered to Heterick Memorial Library

Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days No charge to request items (unless they

become overdue) Maximum of 25 requests at a time Items can usually be renewed

FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK

From POLAR results list: Button will recreate the POLAR search in

OhioLINK From an item record:

Button will go directly to the same item Use if the copy in POLAR is checked out

Direct link to the OhioLINK catalog: http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES What is the basic definition of a library database?

A library database is an electronic (online) catalog or index Library databases contain information about published items Library databases are searchable The library subscribes to many databases so the ONU

community has access to these resources. When you’re searching a database, you are not searching “the web.”

What types of items are indexed by library databases? Articles in Journals/Magazines/Newspapers Reference Information (i.e. entries from Encyclopedias,

Dictionaries, etc.) Books & other documents

Source: http://web.calstatela.edu/library/whatisadatabase.htm

WEB RESEARCH VS. LIBRARY DATABASES

Internet Material from numerous

sources, individuals, government, etc.

Search engines must work with material prepared without regard for specific software

Quality of material varies Generally do not access

for-profit information Content often

anonymous and undated

Databases Usually created by a single

publisher Content pre-arranged for

easy searching Quality-controlled by

editorial staff Most are available only to

subscribers Sources are usually

identified and dated Databases often focus on

a specific subject or discipline, but some cover several areas

BUT I FOUND THIS GREAT WEBSITE…

Critically analyzing web sources What? is the page/site about Who? created and maintains this site Where? is the information coming from Why? is the information presented on the web When? was the page created or last updated How? accurate or credible is the page

From the University of Wisconsin Library, worksheet for evaluating web sites

ARTICLES – POPULAR VS. SCHOLARLY

Popular = Magazine Scholarly = Journal

Magazines tend to have glossy pages, lots of pictures, and can be read and understood by the general public

Scholarly journals are usually peer-reviewed and tend to be aimed at professionals in the field

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES General

Databases Academic Search

Complete Business Source

Complete JSTOR Lexis-Nexis MasterFILE

Premier MEDLINE with Full

Text

Databases by Subject

ARTICLES – FULL TEXT

FIND IT @ ONU

Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where you don’t have full text access to a database where you do have full text access

CITING YOUR SOURCES

APA The Publication Manual of the American

Psychological Association Psychology, sociology, business, economics,

nursing, social work, criminology MLA

Modern Language Association English, comparative literature, literary criticism,

foreign languages Chicago Manual

History, humanities IEEE citation guide

SURVIVAL SKILLS

Get to know the librarians Time management Research is a process, not an event Go beyond Google and Wikipedia Use the resources the professors expect you to

use Know the difference between sources and how

to evaluate them for relevancy and scholarship Know how to cite and avoid plagiarism Practices makes perfect What you learn in one class can be used in

other classes