LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SEP Library Skills Workshop for BUS110 Library Exercise 2 Exercise must be submitted online: URL: Deadline: 03 Oct 2011 (Mon) Questions are about skills with finding items in the Library catalogue and some basics in using online databases Overview We shall begin with 3 Library Toolbar Like the convenience with the Google Toolbar or Yahoo! Toolbar? Quick searches and instant access to often used Library and University functions are readily available by installing the Lingnan University Library Toolbar: Available for both IE and Firefox web browsers. 4 Library Toolbar 5 You can access the Library Toolbar webpage under the Services & Facilities tab Survival Guide for New Students 6 Library Catalogue 7 Library Catalogue is accessed via the home page of the Library at Use author or title search if you know the author / title of the book or the journal Author search type SURNAME and then Given Names or Initials (e.g. enter Austen, Jane instead of Jane Austen) Library Catalogue: finding items on your reading list 8 HINTS: the Library Catalogue can only be searched by book author, book title, journal title, etc. Therefore, article titles, title and author of a chapter in the book usually are not searchable Example: You are asked to read the followings: 1. Lai, D., & Surood, S. (2008). Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23(1), Ren Y. (1999). Chinas Perceived Image of the United States: Its sources and impact. in P. Koehn and J. Cheng (Eds.), The Outlook for U.S.- China Relations Following the Summits: Chinese and American Perspectives on Security, Trade, and Cultural Exchanges (pp ). HK: Chinese UP. 9 Search Article Title Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians has NO MATCHES Example: Lai, D., & Surood, S. (2008). Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23(1), 57-75 10 Need to search for the Journal Title Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology instead 11 Search Chapter Title Chinas Perceived Image of the United States has NO MATCHES Example: Ren Y. (1999). Chinas Perceived Image of the United States: Its sources and impact. in P. Koehn and J. Cheng (Eds.), The Outlook for U.S.- China Relations Following the Summits: Chinese and American Perspectives on Security, Trade, and Cultural Exchanges (pp ). HK: Chinese UP. 12 Need to search for Book title The Outlook for U.S. China instead Example: Ren Y. (1999). Chinas Perceived Image of the United States: Its sources and impact. in P. Koehn and J. Cheng (Eds.), The Outlook for U.S.- China Relations Following the Summits: Chinese and American Perspectives on Security, Trade, and Cultural Exchanges (pp ). HK: Chinese. This is CHAPTER in a BOOK Course Reserve Course Reserve by Instructor or Course (RES) 13 Library Catalogue 14 If we need to find something about a topic but we do not know the author or title, then use Keyword / Phrase Search or Subject Search E.g. I want something about romantic poetry. Try: Keyword Search romantic poetry Keyword Search romantic* and poet* (the * means insert anything here e.g. poet* can mean poet / poets / poetry / poetic, etc.) Keyword Search romantic poetry Boolean Operators 15 Using AND / OR / AND NOT Try it yourself using Keyword Search: tom cruise brad pitt tom cruise and brad pitt tom cruise or brad pitt tom cruise and not brad pitt brad pitt and not tom cruise Keyword Search or Subject Search 16 Keyword / Phrase Search: look for words or phrases appearing anywhere in Title, Author, Subject or Notes fields Subject Search: look for phrases appearing in the Subject field E.g. try (a) search da vinci as keyword; (b) search da vinci as subject Narrow Down Your Results 17 Narrow down by Add more keywords using AND (e.g. tom cruise and brad pitt) Specify where the keywords should appear (e.g. da vinci as title words? da vinci as subject words? da vinci as author words?) Add more restrictions by collection sets, date, language, material types, shelving location, etc. 18 Under Keyword Search, you can Limit Results to Chinese or English; Books or Journals; Special Material Types; Between certain Years; Sorting Orders and More HKALL 19 HKALL = Hong Kong Academic Library Link ( ) allows you to request for books not available at Lingnan but available at HKU, CUHK, HKUST, PolyU, CityU, HKBU or HKIEd -- delivered to Lingnan normally within 3 working days HKALL// Quota: Up to 10 books HKALL Click the Search HKALL button If you cannot find the materials you want in our library catalogue, you can search them in HKALL. 20 HKALL Request Procedures Click the book title 21 HKALL Request Procedures Eligible HKALL users at Lingnan University can make a HKALL request only if: The requested item is not available in the Lingnan University Library Other libraries have at least a copy of the item with the status "AVAILABLE" The user has not used up his / her request / loan quota Click the Request this title link 22 HKALL Request Procedures Choose Lingnan as your home library 23 HKALL Request Procedures Fill out the authentication page by typing in your Lingnanusername and password, then click the "Submit" to complete the request procedure. 24 25 Course Reserve by Instructor or Course (RES) Course Reserve e.g. Search by course code: Type the course code SOC319" in the search box 26 Course Reserve This area shows the professors name, course code and course name. This area shows the information of course materials, e.g. title, author, location and call number. 27 Course Reserve Some of the course materials can be viewed online. e.g. Internet -- E-reserve -- ON NETWORK 28 Course Reserve Click the ELECTRONIC RESERVE copy link to access the full text content 29 Search Library Catalogue or Electronic Databases? 30 Library Catalogue Allows you to find out what items are available from Lingnan do we have this book / this journal / this dictionary / this biography / this encyclopedia? If so, where is it located and how to get it? But it only has information about the book or the journal or the dictionary as a whole; it does not immediately show you the definition of a word, the full text itself or the statistical data itself. Electronic Databases Different Databases provides information at different levels. Depending on whether it is a full text database or bibliographic index database, it will provides the article level information, table of contents and often the full content (e.g. the article itself, the definition of a word, the photograph itself, a piece of statistical data, etc.) Using Electronic Databases 31Key Databases ProQuest, Ebscohost, Wisenews, Factiva, LexisNexis, Find Databases by Subject, Types, Keyword Searches Webbridge: Linking up Library-paid Databases and Full-text Contents 1-Search 32solutions.com 1-Search Allows you to Search Many Databases at the Same Time 32 Demonstration 33 Searching for News Stories WiseNews and WiseSearch How to browse by HK Newspaper Categories? How to search with WiseSearch? Searching for Journal Articles EBSCOhost Databases ProQuest Databases Getting Help 34 General Enquiries Integrated Helpdesk at Information Commons (1/F, Library) Tel: Ask A Librarian (Electronic Reference) Contact Us FAQntly_Asked_Questions_About_the_Libraryntly_Asked_Questions_About_the_Library Q & A Thank You! 35