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.

Virtual Reference Chat IM Blogs

Blogging in Libraries SFPL CCSF

Usability Web sites Services

Security Spam Spyware Security Strips

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

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*

Stemming ge=searchguides.html&ctx=basics#stemmi nghttp://google.com/support/bin/static.py?pa ge=searchguides.html&ctx=basics#stemmi ng

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

Gale 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

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

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

Review

Computers ASCII Client/Server Hardware/Software OS/Applications USB

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

Integrated Library Management Systems Backup Bib Records Bibliographic utility Fixed fields ILS MARC OPAC

Acquisitions Claim Collection development E-books Encumbrance Expenditure Fiscal close ISBN ISSN Periodical aggregator Monograph

Cataloging AACR2 Access point Authority Record FRBR Indexing Indicator Item Record

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

Serials Authentication Binding Electronic resource management Open URL Serials checkin SFX

OPAC Boolean operators Federated Searching Keyword search Metadata Phrase search URL XML

Resource Sharing Ariel Consortial borrowing Consortium Direct consortial borrowing Document delivery ILL 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 DTD XHTML Truncation Preparing a search

Reasons to Automate Reports Access Confidentiality Collection management Circulation

Class Web Page