SCPA 502 Library Workshop Michelle Lake SCPA, Poli Sci, FPST and Government Publications Librarian

Course Page http://bit.ly/SCPA502

Webster Library – SGW Campus 24/7 access, with student card, after 11pm 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor of LB - “Library Building” Computers/Printers/Photocopiers/Scanners Group Study Rooms Course Reserves Current Print Journals Social Sciences, Political Science, Gov publications, Maps, History, Humanities, Engineering & Fine Arts Vanier Library – Loyola Campus 24/7 access, with student card, after 11pm 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floor VL – “Vanier Library” Computers/Printers/Photocopiers/Scanners Group Study Rooms Course Reserves Print Journal Archive Sciences, Psychology, Applied Human Sciences, Communications & Journalism

http://library.concordia.ca/

Print Books Webster 4th floor & Vanier 2nd floor: Political Science & Government, Political Theory, J – JZ Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, H-HV Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness, Corporate culture, labour, HD Organizational sociology, Organization theory, HM Social service, HV

Known items - Book Boulmeti, J. & Dutwin, P. (2005) The ABC’s of evaluation: Timeless techniques for program and project managers. S.F. Wiley and Sons. Search for the Title in Library Catalogue Leave out “The”, “A”, “An”, etc. when searching for an exact title You will need the Location and Call Number information to find the book on the shelf

Call number is the code you need to find the item on the shelves. You can request a book, if it has a due date, which means another library user has borrowed it. Location will tell you the library and floor on which you will find the item. Call number is the code you need to find the item on the shelves. Tells you whether it is on the shelf or checked out.

Known items - Book Guérard, G. Les conflits organisationnels: restez maître du jeu, Les Éditions Yvon Blais, Montréal, 2008. Search for the Title in Library Catalogue Leave out “Les”, “Le”, “La”, etc. when searching for an exact title Put the title in quotation marks You will need the Location and Call Number information to find the book on the shelf

All of the subjects are in English.

Known item – Book, at Vanier DeBono, E. (1985) Six thinking hats. Toronto: Key Porter Books. Search for the Title in Library Catalogue If the book’s Location is Vanier Library, you can have the book delivered to Webster library by using the Request button

Known item – journal article Costanza, D., Blacksmith, N., Coats, M. et al. (2016). “The Effect of Adaptive Organizational Culture on Long-Term Survival.” Journal of Business & Psychology 31(3): 361-381. Journal Article Search article title in Discovery search Search for article title in Google Scholar Search for Journal title in the Library Catalogue

Known items 1. Identify the format: is it a book, book chapter or an article? 2. For books & book chapters: search the discovery search or library catalogue with the title of the book. 3. For articles: search the Discovery search with the title of the journal article. 4. For articles: search Google Scholar with the title of the journal article. 5. For articles: Search the Library Catalogue – Journal Title search for the Journal’s title. 6. Ask or assistance/request from elsewhere: If you are unable to locate the items, use Ask-a-librarian chat and/or request them through COLOMBO

https://library.concordia.ca/ The Discovery Search, searches the library catalogue AND some of the journal article databases. It is a good place to search for journal article titles. The library catalogue searches all the print books and ebooks available at the libraries.

COLOMBO – Interlibrary Loans Use Interlibrary loans/COLOMBO – to request books and access articles from other libraries via Concordia Request a book from another university library and it will be delivered to Concordia for your use (for 2 weeks) Request an article from another university library and (generally) a PDF copy will be delivered to your email within a week Use the ‘Create Request’ option on the left hand menu in COLOMBO to request articles

BCI Card – Borrow from other Libraries Use a BCI card – to borrow books You can use the BCI card to visit a different university library in person: McGill, UdeM, UQAM, etc. To receive a card, take your student card to the circulation/Loans desk at Webster or Vanier libraries and ask for a BCI card. Why wouldn’t Concordia have the book? Different programs/areas of expertise/languages

Search tips – Library Catalogue and Databases AND –limits how many results your search produces Examples: power AND organizations changement organisationnel AND développement OR –increases the number of results your search produces. You add synonyms or alternative words with OR development OR change conflit OR désaccord 

Search tips – Library Catalogue and Databases “ ” – quotation marks around two or more words, is a Phrase search and it limits how many results your search produces Examples: “community economic development” “développement économique communautaire” *- the star, after the root word, fills in all the suffix/compound wards and increases the number of results your search produces Example: econom* FINDS economy, economic, economics, economies

Avoid Searching with Linking words Effects Impact Consequences Influence Results Importance Significance Each author may use different linking words when discussing similar topics. You don’t want your search to be limited to those books and articles that only contain the word “effect” or “consequence”

Searching for Books in the Library Catalogue

Does the book include a bibliography or reference list and citations? Scholarly Books Who published the book? A university press? An institution? A government? Does the book include a bibliography or reference list and citations?

Scholarly Books Are you able to find information about the authors, editors and contributors to the book? Are they affiliated with universities, colleges, research centers, governments or other institutions?

Searching for journal articles in the Databases If you check off the box beside any of these terms, it adds them to your search with AND

Accessing journal articles Use Find it @ Concordia, to access the article from another Concordia Database If there is a PDF, download it

Accessing journal articles – Find it @ Concordia Clicking on any links under the green banner should take you directly to the article 1 If there are no direct links, try searching for the journal in the library catalogue 2 If we don’t have the journal, you can use the Interlibrary loans link to request it from another library 3

Author is affiliated with a University Selecting Articles Length of the article Author is affiliated with a University

Selecting articles What do I need to consider in selecting an article? Look at the title and abstract, does it match your topic? What are the article’s subjects? Do they match your keywords? When was the article published? Length: scholarly research articles are usually between 10-25 pages

Selecting articles What do I need to consider in selecting an article? Does the article have extensive Reference or Bibliography or Notes at the end? Scholarly research articles always list the books and articles they have cited and used to build their own research These lists can also be a place to find other interesting books and articles on the same topic

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