English 111 students:
Welcome to the Library!
Stephanie Tetter
Electronic Resources
& Instruction Librarian
These slides are available on the web http://www.mpcfaculty.net/stephanie_tetter Click on INSTRUCTION Look for ENGL 111 Tarrantino
Library Cards: why do you need them? •To log into computers at the library •To check out books and materials from the library •To access databases from off campus
A few things about the
library…
Library Hours:
v Monday – Thursday
v Friday
v Sunday
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Basic Courtesies Cell phones on “silent” please! No food (except in FFTL)! Water only in a non­spill bottle!
Study Rooms •Table and Chairs •Whiteboard & Markers •VCR/DVD w/remote •Computer/Internet (wireless keyboard/mice) •Keys are reserve items
Let’s look at doing research for an assigned project
Topic: your choice or not? We’ll use examples that you can use as models for your research § Brainstorm a list of keywords for your topic: Antioxidants and aging Plastic surgery as a graduation gift Schools banning MySpace ü Think of broad and narrow keywords: BROAD Ø Nutrition Ø Surgery Ø Internet NARROW Ø “Anti­aging therapies” Ø “Plastic surgery” AND “teenage girls” Ø MySpace OR Facebook AND “online social networks” Use Alternate words for the same general topic: Ø Phytonutrients, flavonoids Ø “camouflage cosmetics,” rhinoplasty, otoplasty Ø MySpace, Facebook, DOPA
Once you have some keywords, and you’re ready to find information…where do you begin? Most people go right
vAsk your friends? to the Internet/Web vAsk your instructor? vWatch TV and hope “60 Minutes” or “Dateline” will cover your topic? vGoogle it? Search a database?
What are some keywords for your topic??
Let’s Look at Some Websites: Dihydrogen Monoxide RYT Hospital­DeWayne Medical Center Martin Luther King As a Researcher, You Need to Critically Evaluate All Websites !! What about wikipedia??
Use it with caution, not as your sole source, and What about
wikipedia?? THINK about what you read!
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• If the web isn’t totally reliable, how can you use the Internet for research and know that what you are looking at is reliable / true / authoritative?? • MPC pays a license fee for REFERENCE DATABASES, including some that deal with topics such as cultural identity / assimilation and international business practices (today’s examples) • Let’s look at one of these!
Let’s look at doing online research Using the REFERENCE DATABASE “Opposing Viewpoints” Ø Opposing Viewpoints provides a one­stop source for information on social issues Ø Use it to access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, primary documents, links to websites, statistics, and full­text magazine and newspaper articles
Opposing Viewpoints – Main Page Search Box Subject List
You can choose a topic from the list or enter your search term. Here we search for the term “assimilation”
We searched for the term “assimilation” Results screen with tabs for viewpoint essays, links to website, etc.
Click on the link to get the full text. You can print or email the article to yourself. Let’s see how to access Opposing Viewpoints from the library website!
Under REFERENCE DATABASES,
select DATABASES
Then you will get the database listing page
You will need to scroll down to select OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS
If you are off campus you will be asked to enter your library card number
Let’s Look at Another Resource
useful for locating articles from
journals or other periodicals.
But first, what ARE periodicals
and why do we want to
use them?
Periodicals
v Periodicals – What is a
periodical?
v Newspapers
v Journals & Magazines
v Why do we use periodicals?
v How do you find periodical
information?
v Use a Database
Index to find
articles, for
example:
v EBSCOHost
To choose a periodical database, from the library’s website click on Magazines, Newspapers, Journals. Then click on Full­text articles.
This will take you to the database listing page
If you are off campus you will be asked to enter your library card number
You may need to scroll down to select a database. This time we select EBSCOHost
“General” is a good choice unless you have a SPECIFIC focus (e.g. medical/nursing or business)
We are in the database “Academic Search Premier”
Let’s try a basic search, combining terms and limiting the results to articles where we can have the FULL TEXT. There are several articles that appear to be possibly useful for our project.
We can retrieve the full article, and can print it, send it to an email address, or add it to a folder for review later.
Some researchers automatically go for the advanced search option. Here we add search options…
Our results are more focused… we can now look more in depth at these (a more manageable number!) …
What’s the Difference between products like
Opposing Viewpoints or EBSCOHost and “The
Internet” or “Internet Sources”??
v A licensed database is available via the Internet
and you can rely on its essays, articles, etc. as
being authoritative sources.
v The information is different from what you
might find by just Googling or entering
your search term using other search
tools such as Yahoo! or even
Google scholar.
Let’s do an exercise!
• Log in using your library card
number.
• Under Internet, go to Library’s
website.
• Under “Reference Databases”
click on “Databases” OR
• Under Magazines,
Newspapers, Journals, click on
“Full­text Articles”
• Follow the directions on the
handout, or do your own
searching for your project.
AND WHAT ABOUT E­BOOKS???
Books
Reference & Circulating Reference Books are located on the Main Floor. Circulating Books are on the 3 rd Floor. • MPC has books (many thousands)
available online
• The collections include up­to­date
material on general subjects and
technical topics (we would not be
able to afford to keep these current in
print format)
• You can access the books using the
Web from anywhere
• It’s free!
In this example we searched for “assimilation”
You may need to create a free account
How did we get to that
information?
Under “Books & More” we clicked on “Library Catalog”
Then we selected “Local Catalog”
The search screen lets you search by keyword, author, title, etc.
If MPC doesn’t have
anything, you can search
other libraries by going to
“Links to Other Libraries”
For example…
Let’s do another exercise!
• Navigate to
the library
catalog.
• Search for a
book.
• Create an e­
book login if
you wish.
• Search other
libraries if
you wish.
If you have any questions please ask a librarian!!
Thank You!