information literacy: the game show!

INFORMATION LITERACY:

The Game Show!

Search Techniques

• title searches

• keyword searches

• phrase searching

• using 360 link

Game Rules!

• 4-5 students come on down!

• The co-host will describe a library item

• You guess the retail price

• The winner? Whoever guesses the closest price without going over wins a point and goes on to the next challenge. If everyone goes over, the person with the closest price goes on to the next challenge

• The next challenge is locating the resource in U-Search in under 2 minutes

Finding an entry in an encyclopedia

1. Find the encyclopedia title

2. Look for the entry

Finding an article

Use the

• title of the source

• title of the article

“Phrase searching” helps!

U-Search…

• Has HALF of our databases

automatically plugged into it!

• You can retrieve SOME

information in other

databases through 360 Link

Using 360 Link

• Locate your item in U-Search

• Click the icon:

• Click "link to full text article“

Are you ready to play?

letters, journals, memoirs,

interviews, and more

Primary Sources

Actual Retail Price?

$29.98

Queen Victoria in Her

Letters and Journals

Secondary SourcesAuthor analyzes primary

sources to make own conclusions

Actual Retail Price?

$229.74American Music in the

Twentieth Century

Encyclopedias

Give you some background of an issue

Actual Retail Price?

$446.73Encyclopedia of

Political Theory

Scholarly Journal Articles

• Written by experts

• Can be very recent research

Actual Retail Price?

$37.50“Western Concepts,

Chinese Context”

International Journal

of Pedagogies and Learning

From the journal

Newspaper Articles

• Written by journalists/non-experts

• Can be recent information

Actual Retail Price?

$3.95“Murder in Mind”

Washington Post

From the newspaper

Magazine Articles

• Written by journalists/non-experts

• Can be recent information

Actual Retail Price?

$5.95“South Padre’s Magic

Shrinking Beaches”

Saturday Evening Post

From the magazine

SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN

How much would you estimate

all these items are worth?

Book Reviews

Explains the author’s argument and

how s/he tried to make it

Actual Retail Price?

$35.00“Consumed: How

Markets Corrupt”

Journal of Industrial Ecology

From the journal

DocumentariesTell stories about real events and people

Actual Retail Price?

$19.78Exit Through

the Gift Shop

Author’s Method

Institutional study

Actual Retail Price?

$32.00“Peeling Back

the Layers”

Enterprise & Society

From the journal

Author’s Method

Biological study

Actual Retail Price?

$31.50“Engineering Plant

Metabolism into

Microbes”

Current Opinion

in Biotechnology

From the journal

Author’s Method

Community study

Actual Retail Price?

$30.73"A Primary School

Arts Festival”

Victorian Journal of

Music Education

From the journal

Author’s Method

Focuses on mapmaking techniques

Actual Retail Price?

$20.00‘‘Giuseppe Vasi's Nuova

Pianta di Roma (1781)’’

From the journal

Eighteenth-Century Studies

SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN

How much would you estimate

all these items are worth?

Search Techniques

• title searches

• keyword searches

• phrase searching

• using 360 link

Questions? Contact us!

Porter Henderson Library Research Assistance

reference@angelo.edu

(325) 486-6534