English 1213Dr. Miller

Session 3CatalogFrederic Murray, M.L.I.S.

NEA Study 2007:To Read or Not To Read• Americans are spending less time

reading

• Reading comprehension skills are eroding

• These declines have serious civic, social, cultural and economic implications

To Read or Not To Read

• More than 60% of employed Proficient readers have jobs in management or in the business, financial, professional and related sectors

• Only 18% of Basic reader are employed in those fields

• Proficient readers are 2.5 times as likely as Basic readers to be earning $850 or more a week

-U.S. Dept. of Ed: Nat. Center for Education Statistics 2005

To Read or Not To Read

• Employers now rank reading and writing as top deficiencies in new hires

• Remedial writing courses are estimated to cost more than $3.1 billion for large corporate employers and $221 for state employers

Reading is Transformative

• Jimmy Santiago Baca

• Dorothy Allison

• Larry Heinemann

SHAQ…

Review

• Keyword vs. Subject• Boolean• Limiters

1: the act or process of executing : performance

2: a putting to death especially as a legal penalty

3: the process of enforcing a legal judgment (as against a debtor) ; also : a judicial writ directing such enforcement

4: the act or mode or result of performance

Keyword example: execution

Keywords: SynonymsKeyword: executionPart of Speech: nounSynonyms: accomplishment,

completion, consummation, decapitation, doing, effectuation, electrocution, fulfillment, garrote, guillotine, killing, lapidation, noyade, performance, perpetration, realization, strangulation, transaction

“Execution” in an Online Search Catalog:

Database:

Internet :

• Direct marketing : strategy, planning, execution / Edward L. Nash

• Forward chaining in HALO: An implementation strategy for history-based logic pointcuts

• FOXNews.com - Anger After Cheerleaders Stage Mock Execution at Pep Rally

Searches Use Boolean

•execution and business

•execution and prison

•execution and “dance moves”

Finding books

• Catalog• Use keyword searching with

Boolean operators• Subject searching is like using a

thesaurus• Limiters

SWOSU Catalog

Open WorldCat

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

Exercise

• Catalog worksheet– SWOSU– WorldCat

– Topic: U.S.A. Presidential Elections

Thank You

Frederic Murray M.L.I.S.frederic.murray@swosu.edu580 774 7113