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Search Strategies & Catalog Instruction Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library [email protected]

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Search Strategies & Catalog Instruction

Frederic Murray Assistant ProfessorMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa

Instructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]
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DID YOU KNOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZg51Il9no
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Library Instruction in the Information Age

• New Search Strategies are required

• Critical evaluation is more important than ever

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Catalogs, Databases, & Search Engines

• A comprehensive list of the books, periodicals, maps, and other materials in a given collection.

• A large, regularly updated file of digitized information related to a specific subject or field.

• Computer software designed to help the user locate information available at sites on the World Wide Web by selecting categories from a hierarchical directory of subjects (example: Yahoo!) or by entering appropriate keywords or phrases (Google).

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Boolean

• AND = Narrow

• OR = Expand

• NOT = Exclude

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/learning/wise/
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Boolean Operators

• Connect keywords only• Must be placed between keywords• AND

– Narrows your search• OR

– Expands your search with synonymous terms

• NOT– Excludes words from your search– If used too much, it can work against you!

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Catalog: Finding books

• Relevance

• Keyword searching with Boolean operators

• Limiters/Filters

• Subject searching (hyperlinks)

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SWOSU Catalog

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Dewey

• All of human knowledge is broken into Ten Major Categories

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Open WorldCat

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E-Books: Ebrary/ eBooks

• 24/7• Full Text Searching*• Highlight Markup• Note Taking• Changeable Font Size• Online Bookshelf

• Multiplicity of Use

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Exercise

• Catalog worksheet– SWOSU– WorldCat– Ebrary

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PLAGERISM

A quick word…

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Plagiarism

• The act of stealing someone else's work and attempting to "pass it off" as your own. This can apply to anything, from term papers to photographs to songs, even ideas.

• Turnitin

http://turnitin.com/
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Resources

• Purdue OWL

• Research & Documentation

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/
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Questions?

• Contact me:– Frederic Murray

• 774-7113• [email protected]

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