1. 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.

2. Virtual Reference Email Chat IM Blogs

3. Blogging in Libraries SFPL CCSF

4. Usability Web sites Services

5. Security Spam Spyware Security Strips

6. 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

7. Truncation http://webopedia.com/TERM/t/truncate.html 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*

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

9. 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.

10. 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

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

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

13. 8 Steps in Preparing a Search 1.Format – What do you need? Books, journals articles, Web sites, images, films, music etc.?

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

15. Review

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

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

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

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

20. Cataloging AACR2 Access point Authority Record FRBR Indexing Indicator Item Record

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

22. Serials Authentication Binding Electronic resource management Open URL Serials checkin SFX

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

24. Resource Sharing Ariel Consortial borrowing Consortium Direct consortial borrowing Document delivery ILL Union catalog Universal borrowing

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

26. Computer Skills CSS DTD XHTML Truncation Preparing a search

27. Reasons to Automate Reports Access Confidentiality Collection management Circulation

28. Class Web Page http://fog.ccsf.edu/~acosta/56.htm