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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

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*

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 2nd edition

• Access point• Authority Record• FRBR – Functional Requirements for

Bibliographic Records• Indexing• Indicator• Item Record

FRBR

• http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/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

Class Web Page

• http://fog.ccsf.edu/~acosta/56.htm