Transcript The Library & You

The Library & You
Tips & Tricks to make your life easier
Tracey Mayfield
FCS Librarian
CDFS 419
9/22/08
Today: We will
• Discuss what we want to learn
• Learn those things
• Hopefully have fun in the process!
What do you 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
Searching
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Key to getting what you want
Good search = good results
Bad search = wanting to kill oneself
Tips:
– And
– Or
– Truncation
– (), “”, etc…
COAST
• Aka: The library catalog
• Key to finding stuff we have (mainly books)
• Key to many services we offer
Databases
• 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
Google
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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 *^%$@?
• Why?
– Why do I have to?
– Why do I have to do it correctly?
• How?
• Where is the info?
Where to get help
• 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 coming
Happy Researching!