1. LIS 100 IFEST
What should you know?

2. IFEST What will be covered? First seven weeks of the semester
Organization of material
Defining your research question
Searching the online catalog
Searching the periodical databases
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Call numbers
Print indices
Netiquette
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3. IFEST What to bring and how to prepare Preparing for the IFEST
Something to write with
Your brain
Preparing for the IFEST
All your notes
All of your assignments
All of the tutorials
Instruction videos
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4. IFEST Details of IFEST 65 minutes 10, 5 and 1 minute(s) notification
Use all the time and double check your answers
Answer everything.
Don’t leave anything blank
Complete simple questions first
Remember to go back if you skipped anything
Please leave back row empty
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5. IFEST Netiquette What is it? Ten rules to abide by Netiquette site
Netiquette quiz
Google: netiquette home
Core Rules of Netiquette
The Netiquette Quiz
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6. IFEST Information Competency and you Definition
From the IC tutorial page
petency/index_defined.html
What is not information competency
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7. IFEST Research Process First things first Research question:
Know your Librarian
Differences between a topic and a research question
Research question:
What do you do first?
Turn your topic into a research question
How do you do that?
What, when, where, how, why
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8. IFEST Research Process: Research Question
What is the next step once you have a research question?
Identify
Keyword(s)
Key phrase(s)
What is the next step?
Identify synonyms
Identify related terms
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9. IFEST Research Process What type of material is best?
What type of material can be utilized?
Appropriate material
Speeches
Books
Articles
Videos
Newspaper
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10. IFEST Research Process Bibliography vs. biography Primary sources
A bibliography is
a list of sources used for your research
A biography is
a story about someone’s life.
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Tertiary sources
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11. IFEST Database Searching
Databases are made up of information called ______________
Records are made up of ________________
Fields are what we search.
Fields are also called access points
If you know and understand the structure of a database, you can search it more effectively.
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12. IFEST Database Searching
What is the difference between field searching and keyword searching?
What type of results do you retrieve when you use keyword searching?
What is the result of keyword searching?
False Drops – records not relevant to your search
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13. IFEST Subject Headings From a Controlled vocabulary
Help describe the contents of an item
Help you locate other material categorized under the same subject heading
Where will you find these?
The Bibliographic record
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14. IFEST Library of Congress Subject Headings BT NT SA RT
Be able to analyze a page from Subject Headings
(Big Red Books)
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15. IFEST Online Catalog Which type of database would this be?
Bibliographic
Numeric
Full-text
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16. IFEST Online Catalog OPAC Electronic catalog
Contains everything that is located in the library
Books, videos, cd’s, dvd’s, magazine titles, ebooks
(Not articles)
Search by subject, title, author keyword
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17. IFEST Online Catalog continued Basic searching Advanced sarching
Search for an author (field)
Search for a subject (field)
Advanced sarching
Combine more than one term
Catalogs at University libraries and Public Libraries
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18. IFEST Online catalog Citations and their purpose
Parts of a book citation
Title
Author
Publisher
Year published
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19. IFEST Online Catalog Bibliographic record and its parts Author Title
Subjects
Call number
Publisher
Date
Format: Book, video, microfilm, microfiche
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20. IFEST Organization of material Organizes all material in libraries
All knowledge broken down into subjects
Library of Congress Classification System
Dewey Decimal system
Which is used at SAC library?
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21. IFEST Ebooks Virtual books combined with real books
Found using online catalog
Electronic resource
Viewed only online
Not found on the shleves
Never accrue late fees
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22. IFEST Periodicals What are they? (Three types) Why are they important?
Magazines
Newspapers
Journals
Why are they important?
They will have the most recent information about your topic.
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23. IFEST Periodicals Locating past articles Print Indices
Mostly for retrieving old articles
Only include citations
Electronic databases
Retrieve citations
Retrieve full-text
Retrieve abstracts
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24. IFEST Periodicals Citations and their purpose
Parts of a periodical citation
Title of article
Title of source (name of magazine, newspaper, journal)
Author of article
Date of article
Page number where article can be found
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25. IFEST Peridocial databases Purpose Parts of periodical database record
to help you locate magazine, newspaper and journal articles.
Parts of periodical database record
Title of article
Title of source
Author
Date, Vol., Issue, Pages
Abstract = summary
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26. IFEST Periodical databases Limiters Date
Location (owned by the library)
Full-text
Peer reviewed
Publication title = source
Field searching
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27. IFEST Pedriodical database Basic searching Advancing searching
Field searching
Keyword searching
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28. IFEST Peridodical databases
Newspaper database will contain newspaper articles
Writing is for general public.
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29. IFEST Terms to know and what they do Truncation Boolean searching
What is this?
What does this do to a search
Where can it be used in an online catalog
Boolean searching
What does this do to a search?
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