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1 English 1213 Session One: Information Literacy, Search Strategies & Catalog Instruction Frederic Murray, MLIS Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library

2 Did You Know….

3 Emergent Fields Neuroarchaeology Immunocomputing Astronomical Medicine

4 Educational Goals for 21 st Century 1.Teach Students to be self-directed & understand how to organize more & more of their own learning. 2.Teach our students the importance of global communication. 3.Teach our students to deal with massive amounts of information.

5 Library Instruction in the Information Age New Search Strategies are required Critical evaluation is more important than ever Hi-Tech Research Skills

6 Define: Catalog, Database, Indexes A comprehensive list of the books, periodicals, maps, and other materials in a given collection. A large, regularly updated file of digitized information related to a specific subject or field. An alphabetically arranged list of headings consisting of the personal names, places, and subjects treated in a specific work.

7 Search Techniques Keyword Basic Boolean

8 Identifying Keywords Identify the significant terms and concepts that describe your topic from your thesis statement or research question. These terms will become the key for searching catalogs, indexes, and databases for information about your subject.

9 Keyword Examples Death Penalty –Lethal injection –Gov. George Ryan –Cruel and unusual punishment –Amnesty International –Stanley (Tookie) Williams Government Bailout –Bear Stearns –Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac –Housing bill –Savings and loan crisis –Henry Paulson –Subprime mortgages

10 Keyword Phrases Single concept, multiple words Some electronic resources require keyword phrases be enclosed with punctuation –Quotation marks – SWOSU Catalog –Parenthesis

11 Class Exercise Keyword Building Exercise Topic: U.S.A. Presidential Elections Thesaurus.com

12 U.S.A. Presidential Elections State American National VotingHistory Choosing BallotingRecord Politics

13 Boolean AND = Narrow OR = Expand NOT = Exclude

14 Catalog: Finding books Relevance Keyword searching with Boolean operators Limiters Subject searching (hyperlinks)

15 SWOSU Catalog

16 Open WorldCat

17 Ebrary Ebrary provides more than 44,000 digital books in a broad range of subject areas, including business, technology, health and medicine, literature and the humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies. Ebrary digital books contain the full-text and illustrations of their print counterparts

18 Exercise Catalog worksheet –SWOSU –WorldCat –Topic: U.S.A. Presidential Elections

19 Questions? Contact me: –Frederic Murray 744-7113 frederic.murray@swosu.edu

20 Thanks!

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