Lesson 7: Using Books for Research, Part I

Using Books for Research I

Week 7

This week we will learn how to:

Find a BOOK

• Use the ONLINE CATALOG

• FIND the book on the shelf

• ACCESS an eBook

Cycle of Information

Turn on the

News

Newspapers

Magazines

Scholarly

Journals

Event Happens

Books BOOKS

WHY do I want to find a book?#4 - Background info

#3 - Facts and statistics

#2 -In-depth info on a

person or topic

#1 -Not everything ison the INTERNET!!!

HOW do I find a book?

Start with

Gumberg Library’s

Online Catalog,

which is called….

DuCAT!

Library Homepage

http://www.duq.edu/library

# 1

# 2

Access DuCat

BASICSEARCH

ADVANCED SEARCH

Basic Search

You may search for BOOKS by:Keyword

Author

Title

Subject

Guided Search

Combine search term types and/or add limits

Search TermsAnd

Boolean OperatorsIn

DuCat

My Course Topic...

GENERAL TOPIC:

Diversity in higher education

Keywords and Alternate Terms

Diversity• Multiculturalism• Minorities• Race• Gender• Ethnic background• Religion

Higher Education

• College• Colleges• University• Universities

If I do a search for...

DIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION

91

titles

AND

If I do a search in DuCat for...

DIVERSITY MULTICULTURALISM

titles 2, 547

OR

If I do a DuCat search for...

(DIVERSITY OR MULTICULTURALISM)

AND HIGHER EDUCATION

I would get… 107 titles

NESTED SEARCH: Combining OR and AND searches

Truncation

• Way to search for variations on a search term using the base

• DuCat uses $

• College$– college– colleges

• Universit$– university– universities

• Multicultural$– multicultural– multiculturalism

Nested Search w/ Truncation

(divers$ OR multicultural$) AND

higher education

How many results do you get?

164