Tips & Tricks to make your life easier
The Library & YouThe Library & You
Tracey MayfieldFCS LibrarianCDFS 4199/22/08
Today: We Today: We willwill
• Discuss what we want to learn• Learn those things• Hopefully have fun in the process!
What do you What do you want to learn?want to learn?
• Break into groups• Each person list the things they
want to learn• Group ranks list• One person from each group comes
up and lists items on the agenda up front
SearchingSearching• Key to getting what you want• Good search = good results• Bad search = wanting to kill oneself• Tips:– And – Or– Truncation– (), “”, etc…
COASTCOAST• Aka: The library catalog• Key to finding stuff we have (mainly books)
• Key to many services we offer
DatabasesDatabases• Online tool• Finds SCHOLARLY & RELIABLE
articles and article info• Many full text articles, but not ALL• USE THE SFX BUTTON!!!!!• Always start here for article
research
GoogleGoogle• Crawls through the web to find web
sites• 99.999% not scholarly• Reliability is an issue too• Great for certain things, but not
scholarly research
Citing…What the Citing…What the *^%$@?*^%$@?
• Why?–Why do I have to?–Why do I have to do it correctly?
• How?• Where is the info?
Where to get Where to get helphelp• Reference Desk
– Check “Hours” on library website for current hours
• 24/7 Ask Now Service– Help literally 24/7 online
• ME!– Tracey Mayfield– (562) 985-8877 and/or [email protected]
Thanks for Thanks for comingcomingHappy Researching!Happy Researching!
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