home sweet home page-- or, finding your way on the university libraries web site

Home Sweet Home Page--

Or, finding your way on the University Libraries web site.

Home page

InfoLinks

Course Reserves

Journals and articles

StaffWeb

Interlibrary Loan

Search engines

Other resources

InfoLinks

Reserves

Catalogs

Databases

Staffweb

ILL

Find books, journals, other materials in the collections.

Readings and old tests for classes.

Find journals though Infolinks, and articles through databases

Policies, forms, student manual, calendar, and other library information

Borrows and lends materials for students, faculty and

staff.

Search the Internet for information of various kinds.

Gov. Docs., Special Collections, other catalogs, guides and tutorials….

The Libraries’ home page is the key to our resources and services--

The Libraries’ home page is the origin for many collections and services in the Libraries. We are only going to mention a few of many possible resources.

Home page

InfoLinks

Find books, journals, maps, recordings, and other materials in the collections.

InfoLinks is the Libraries’ catalog.

InfoLinks (under “Find Books and More”) shows what we own in most collections in the various libraries

You may search for books and other materials by author, title, keyword, or subject, and also by

call number (under other searches).

Authors’ names are entered last name first.

• James, Henry– Unless you want the works of James Henry, which

would be searched Henry, James!

• Pseudonyms, such as Mark Twain, will show up if commonly used.– Twain Mark -- see also Clemens, Samuel Cleburne.

• Editors will show up as authors on many edited works or collections.

Search for items by title by entering the title word by word--

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

• Initial articles (A, An, The, etc.) may be skipped-– Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court– Or just Connecticut Yankee

Use keyword searches:• If you don’t know an author or have a title• If in doubt– keyword search! It is the

broadest search in the catalog.

• You may need to experiment to find correct terms. – A keyword search for mules will not

necessarily find burros or donkeys– and a search for jackasses may find other things.

Subject searches are by Library of Congress Subject Headings--

• United States History Civil War 1861-1865– Rather than American Civil War

• Looking for information about dating? Try--– Dating (Social Customs), Man-Woman Relationships, or Mate Selection

• The Library of Congress (LC) thinks of dating as a procedure for determining the age of an item.

– The LC is slow to change descriptive terms, since changes mean work for every library that uses them (plus some terminology is ephemeral).

• Look in InfoLinks, or try a word search and then click on promising subject headings to use subject searches.

• If you are here in Mullins Library, there is a set of volumes called the Library

of Congress Subject Headings that is very useful.

Terminology can be challenging!

• Every discipline or subject has its jargon (even library science).

• Not all fat cats are fat cats.

There is a logic to the LCSH, but it takes practice.

• If in doubt, try keyword searches first.

• For example fat cats as a keyword search in InfoLinks brought me two titles– but looking at the subject headings and

clicking on “campaign funds– United States” retrieved 271 other related titles.

Try a word search; try a subject search-

• What differences do you see in the results?

Other links on the InfoLinks menu--

• WorldCat is a huge compiled catalog of library catalogs from all over the world– shows books and other materials published since 1100- – useful for recognition of “what’s out

there?” and also Interlibrary Loan• Other library catalogs, including Fayetteville

Public’s, FHS’s– good for local information–

Home page

InfoLinks

Course Reserves


Reserve materials

• Most are in Mullins Library at the Circulation desk

• But also in the Performing Arts and Media department, the Fine Arts Library and the Law Library, too.

Lists of materials on Reserve are linked through InfoLinks.

Search by professor’s name or class code and number to find material on Reserve, i.e., Graff or GEOG 2103. Some materials will be available electronically!

Course reserves include readings, old tests, and other materials.

Search by instructor’s last name or the title of the course or the code ABCD 1234, such as Chem 1103 or BIOL 3023

The first one is on the shelf in Circulation, by call number.

The second on is available electronically. Click on the title link to get to the log in screen.

Login with one’s last name and ID number and the class password to

get to electronic reserves.

Home page

InfoLinks

Course Reserves



Finding journals and journal articles

• Check to see if we own a particular journal or magazine by searching by the title of the publication in InfoLinks.

• You may be able to go to electronic content in the journal from that record in InfoLinks.

• We also have an A-Z list of electronic journals linked through the home page, courtesy of Beth Juhl.

Search for journals or magazines by their titles--

• Starting in InfoLinks:– U.S. News and World Report– Journal of Applied Social Psychology

• Determine the journal or magazine from the citation:– Smith, Roger. “Democratic Mules Eating

Political Hay.” U.S. News and World Report, June 22, 2004.

Journal issues may be:

1. In the stacks, by call number2. On microfiche or microfilm, by call number3. With current issues in the Periodicals Room and the

older issues either in the stacks or on microfilm or fiche4. Current issues available electronically, older issues in

the stacks or on micro….5. Current issues and older issues available electronically6. Or some combination of the above.

• The record(s) will always tell you location(s) and holdings.

In the stacks--

Behind the Periodicals desk--

In the Periodicals Room--

We’ll use this title as an example.

This journal is on the shelves from its beginning, has current issues in the Periodicals Room and current issues online.

Here’s the contents page

of the online version.Here’s the table of contents for an issue; let’s choose that top article.

This screen gives us the citation and abstract, and offers choices for the actual article’s file type. There are more steps in this sequence than in most– many journals will go directly to volume information, or even to the issue or article.

Use this icon to print PDFs

Got a favorite journal or magazine?

• Take a moment and see if we have it--

Finding magazine and journal articles--

• Starting with databases, instead of starting with InfoLinks

Databases are a major way to find citations to articles.

• We have hundreds of databases!– The librarians at Reference can help you

select appropriate ones.

• Some of them, such as Ebscohost Academic Search Premier or ProQuest Direct (linked under “Top Ten”) will find some information on almost any topic.

There are lists of databases under “Find articles and more,” under the subject links and by title. The most popular databases are linked under Top Ten.

Databases primarily index and sometimes link to articles in journals, magazines and

newspapers.• Database content is controlled by the publishers,

editors and authors.

• Most of the time, the content available through databases is more trustworthy and accurate than what may be available through the Internet.– (However, this may be changing via Google Scholar

and other initiatives….)

This article is available in

html, PDF and text and graphics

formats through ProQuest

Or, some databases have the article attached in electronic format, usually in html or PDF--

Subject-specific databases

• Such as PsycInfo, Inspec, International Index to Music Periodicals, etc.

• Will yield citations to more subject specific articles or other information.

Try a search in a database you haven’t tried yet!

• Try something in your major, or for more excitement, try something outside your major.

• You never know who you might help.

Home page

InfoLinks

Course Reserves


Other resources


• Government Documents– GIS and Maps

• Other campus libraries

• Special Collections

• Center for Research Libraries– has a collection of materials we may borrow from– Link is on the home page.

• Hours, Guides, Policies and Tutorials

Home page

InfoLinks

Course Reserves


Other resources

Interlibrary Loan


staff.

Interlibrary Loan is another resource--

• The Interlibrary Loan department lends materials to other libraries and borrows materials for students, faculty and staff members at the University.

Illiad is the software used by Interlibrary Loan or ILL.

ILL is free to faculty, staff and students who are currently affiliated.If you register in Illiad, you will make interlibrary loan easier and faster for you and for the ILL staff!Illiad is also the system used to request materials from storage.

Illiad allows you to make requests, check status of requests, see what you have checked out from other libraries, and more!

There are lots of other resources on the home page that you should

explore!

Some of the other resources--

• Special Collections, Government Documents, Physics, Chemistry, Fine Arts, Law, and other campus library links

• Guides and tours– Virtual tour– Jumpstart– Other tutorials– Handouts

Home page

InfoLinks

Course Reserves


Interlibrary Loan

Other resources

Search engines

Search Engines, and the outer Internet

We have several search engines linked through the Libraries’ home page.

This is a search box that you can use to search our site, the University, or Google’s part of the “InterWeb.” Below, there are links to various search engines and other resources.

Databases and search engines are not interchangeable.

• Search engines look at free content, primarily.– Anyone with software, hardware, and

connection can publish on the Internet.• The content may be excellent or lackluster.

• Databases look at subscription content (we pay $$, sometimes $$$$$!)

• Databases for academic libraries most commonly look at scholarly journals. – The content may be excellent, or lackluster,

but in either case it is under much more editorial control than most web materials.

We have control over what we buy in the subscription databases

• At least through the agreements with publishers and database providers.

• And most of it is under strong editorial control.

We have no control over Internet content–

• unless we publish it ourselves!• Internet content may be:

– Incomplete– Inaccurate– Ephemeral

• Some of it is terrific!

• Use InfoLinks, databases and the Internet for a complete search.

Some search engines will allow you to use AND, OR, NOT, near, with

• Google uses a default AND, and if you use OR it must be capitalized.

• Most search engines have search help, advanced search pages, and other ways to help you make your results more relevant to your needs.

Home page

InfoLinks

Course Reserves


StaffWeb

Interlibrary Loan

Search engines

Other resources


The StaffWeb is another resource available through the home page.

• Think-> – calendars of events and library instruction– directories – forms– frequently asked questions – policy statements, and more!

The StaffWeb page supplies all kinds of employment information.

The Library Calendar shows meetings and their locations.

The Library Student Employees’ page is linked here, too.

Home page

InfoLinks

Course Reserves


StaffWeb

Interlibrary Loan

Search engines

Other resources

InfoLinks

Reserves

Catalogs

Databases

Staffweb

ILL

Find books, journals, other materials in the collections.





staff.

Search the Internet for information of various kinds.


Other resources

InfoLinks

Course Reserves


StaffWeb

Interlibrary Loan

Search engines

Questions?

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