Homework Full-text article – entire textual contents of article in online format Abstract – brief summary of article Citation – basic information required to locate an article in its source publication.

E-Journals If you are looking for a full-text article, you might find it in the library’s electronic journal subscription.

Electronic Journals More important in academic libraries STM – science, technology, medicine Print use drop Usage unmediated by the library?

Truncation The use of designated symbols such as * or ? to search for word or spelling variations. –Single letter – character represents one missing letter such as wom?n –Multiple letter – character represents multiple letters such as libr*

Digital Libraries Libraries of or with digital resources (digitized or born-digital). Libraries license access such as full-text e-journal databases and have no control over preservation of such materials. And some libraries purchase digital content or digitize their collection for the purpose of access and preservation.

Database v. Web Searching Databases –Structured –Records –Fields –Indexes –Controlled vocabulary Web –Unstructured –Full-text Keyword searching –Few if any fields –Indexes are primarily unstructured keyword –No controlled vocabulary

What is “structure”? Records with a standard format Standardized Fields – indexed and searchable Fields that are not searchable can often be used as “limiters”

Academic OneFile 20 fields? 22 searchable indexes And, Or, Not

Metasearching v. Metadata Searching Metasearching – federated searching Metadata Searching – searching for information by using indexed metadata rather than full-text keyword searching What is metadata?

8 Steps in Preparing a Search 1.Format – What do you need? Books, journals articles, Web sites, images, films, music etc.? Why is this first?

Review

Computers ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange Client/Server Relationship Hardware/Software OS (operating System)/Applications USB – universal serial bus

The Internet Synchronous/Asynchronous Bandwidth Blog Protocols (FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP) Firewall HTML IM intranet

Protocols FTP – file transfer protocol HTTP – hypertext transfer protocol TCP/IP – transmission control protocol / Internet Protocol SMTP – simple mail transfer protocol

Integrated Library Management Systems Backup Bibliographic Records Bibliographic utility Fixed fields ILS MARC – Machine readable Cataloging OPAC – online public access catalog

Acquisitions Claim Collection development E-books Encumbrance Expenditure Fiscal close ISBN – international standard book number ISSN – international standard serial number Periodical aggregator Monograph

Cataloging AACR2 – Anglo American Cataloging Rules 2 nd edition Access point Authority Record FRBR – Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Indexing Indicator Item Record

FRBR

Circulation Barcode Claims returned Loan rules Patron block table Patron record RFID

Serials Authentication Binding Electronic resource management Open URL Serials check-in SFX

OPAC Boolean operators Federated Searching Keyword search Metadata Phrase search URL – uniform resource locator XML – eXtensible Markup Language

Resource Sharing Ariel Consortial borrowing Consortium Direct consortial borrowing Document delivery ILL – interlibrary loan Union catalog Universal borrowing

Information Searching A&I Services CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Citation Full-text databases Harvest Interoperability Peer-review Proximity operators

Computer Skills CSS – cascading style sheets DTD – document type definition XHTML – extensible hypertext markup language Truncation Preparing a search

Library Automation Reports Access Confidentiality Collection management Circulation

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