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ENGLISH 101 Writing Welcome to Kelly Library! At the request of your English instructor, the librarians are pleased to provide instruction which will help you find library materials on the topic you have chosen or been assigned. The components you will need to complete include: 1) The lecture session, where professional library staff members will teach you how to use the catalog, as well as other reference tools and Internet search engines. 2) In addition, your instructor may require you to work on an exercise in which you will find five sources related to your research topic. This exercise will include a mix of books, periodical articles, newspaper articles and a web site. We hope to build on what you have learned about using library resources in ETLA 100: Transitions. If you have not taken a Transitions I class, or are unfamiliar with Kelly Library, the staff encourages you to look around the library and ask questions. Also, please do not hesitate to ask a Circulation Desk staff member or librarian for assistance in using or locating resources in the library. NAVIGATING THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE Using a college library may be a little different than finding material in your high school library. A college or university library is usually larger and has access to many more materials than your typical high school library. Just remember that if you have questions, we are here to help you. One goal for our session today is to help you become familiar with using a college library. We will be discussing how to navigate the library webpage as well as showing you how to use some of the resources.
Remember: The library staff is your best resource. If you are not finding what you need, please ask a library staff member for help. You will need to get to the library webpage to access the resources that we will be discussing today. Simply click on the Internet Explorer icon, and type in this address: library.ehc.edu. This URL address will take you straight to the library homepage.
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FINDING MATERIAL IN THE ONLINE CATALOG The online catalog (also sometimes called HAL or the opac), contains the holdings of its four members’ libraries. It’s easy to use; see the examples below. The first screenshot shows a keyword search, and the second screen shows a record for an item in the library’s collection and includes basic bibliographic (identification) information. An alternative way to search is subject searching. Subject searching uses a controlled vocabulary of words and phrases; sometimes it is hard to figure out what they are (that’s why librarians are here to help). If one way doesn’t work, try the other, and if you are not finding relevant material, please ask a librarian for assistance.
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FINDING MATERIAL IN ONLINE DATABASES Kelly Library subscribes to many online databases. For this class, we will work primarily with three databases: Biography in Context, General OneFile and one of our online newspaper databases (Newspaper Source Plus). The example below is from Biography in Context which contains over 600,000 biographies on more than 500,000 people gathered from more than 170 award-winning Gale reference sources.
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General OneFile contains a mixture of popular and scholarly periodical articles and is mainly full-text. It is a good place to begin looking for articles. Below is an example from General OneFile. Notice the choice of limiters on the left side of the screen. I have limited the search by Magazines and Full Text
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What do you do if an article is not full-text in this database? You need to check the E Journals by Title list. You can find a link to this on the main library page under the tab for Books, Articles, & More. If your journal or newspaper in not full text in the database that you are searching, you can find out if it is full text in other databases. See example below.
Finding Newspaper Articles There are a couple of ways to locate newspaper articles in Kelly Library. One way is through databases: Kelly Library subscribes to several sources that contain an assortment of full-text newspaper articles, such as America’s Newspapers, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic and Newspaper Source Plus. The other way is to click the Journal
6 Articles and Databases or Newspaper Articles on the library homepage. Below is an example from the Newspaper Source Plus database.
Citation tools in this database are shown below.
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Finding Sites on the Internet It is very likely that an individual, college, institution or professional or advocacy organization may have created a web site containing information on your subject. Google is the giant search engine that towers over the rest, but there are some other good search ones: Ask.com (www.ask.com), Bing (www.bing.com) Dogpile (www.dogpile.com/), Excite (www.excite.com/), and Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com/). The ipl2 (www.ipl2.org/) is not a search engine; it is a web site that lists thousands of other web sites that have been reviewed before they are included. You may also want to try the advanced search mode in Google and limit your search to an .edu (or another domain), or use Google Scholar (scholar.google.com/). You can find valuable information, or information that is inaccurate. So, when you find material on your topic, here are a few questions to ask yourself as you evaluate the site. Is the page signed by a person or attributed to an organization? Is the site affiliated with a university or professional organization? Does the information presented seem in line with material you have already located, or does it seem unbelievable? Has it been updated recently, or is the information several years old? Does the site contain many typos and grammar errors? Widener University’s Wolfgram Library has a good tutorial on evaluating web sites, in which the content of the Martin Luther King.org and The King Center’s sites are analyzed. SUNY-Albany’s University Libraries has a good web evaluation site too at: http://library.albany.edu/usered/eval/evalweb/. Also, check out evaluation sites under the Research Tips area on the library web page. Below is an example of a search using Google on “Serena Williams” that has the limiter of site:.org
The Serena Williams Foundation www.theserenawilliamsfoundation.org/
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Remember: The library staff is your best resource. If you are not finding what you need, please ask a library staff member for help. KELLY LIBRARY PUBLIC SERVICES STAFF Circulation Staff
Reference Librarians
Adam Alley Jennifer Bassett David Lyons Holly McCormick Janice Snead
Lorraine Abraham (director) Jane Caldwell Patty Greany Jody Hanshew Janet Kirby
If you need help locating information or using any library equipment, please ask one of the public services staff members for assistance. We’re your best resource! Generally, a professional librarian is on reference duty 8am-9pm Monday-Thursday, 8am5pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday and 2pm-9pm Sunday.
www.library.ehc.edu 276.944.6208
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9 ENGLISH 101 Writing Worksheet NAME: ___________________________
TOPIC: __________________________________________
*** The completed worksheet is due to Professor Norris on Friday, February 6, 2015 To help you remember the material demonstrated in class, please complete the worksheet below. Please look for biographical information on a person that you are interested in researching. 1) Use the online catalog to find a book or any other item (such as a video, DVD, CD, etc.) on your topic. List the following information for your material. Author/editor: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Title: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Place of publication: _________________________________________________________________________________________ Publisher: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright date: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Call Number: __________________________________________________________________________________________________
2) Using the database Biography in Context, find one of the following sources on your person of interest: Academic Journal Article, Reference Book Entry, Magazine Article, Newspaper Article or a Website. Using the citation tool in that database, enter the MLA citation below. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3) Find a periodical article by using General OneFile. List the following information for the article. Author of article: ___________________________________________________________________________________ Title of article: ______________________________________________________________________________________ Title of periodical/journal/magazine: ____________________________________________________________ Date, volume and issue numbers and pages of article: __________________________________________ Is the article full-text? Yes___ no___.
10 4) Newspaper article on your topic from an online source (America’s Newspapers, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, or Newspaper Source Plus). Author of article:________________________________________________________________________________ Title of article:__________________________________________________________________________________ Title of newspaper:______________________________________________________________________________ Date, section and pages of the article:______________________________________________________________ Title of online newspaper database and search terms used:_____________________________________ 5) Web site related to your topic. Title of web site:_______________________________________________________________________________ Author or sponsoring organization:________________________________________________________________ Date of web site:_______________________________________________________________________________ URL address (please write legibly)________________________________________________________________ Search engine and search terms you used:________________________________________________________ Bonus Question: (worth 10 points) Give a brief evaluation of the web site you found in # 5. Use the evaluation tips (accuracy, attribution, authority and currency) on p. 7 of your handout, and list a solid, thoughtful reason on why it was a good (or bad) web site.
