Welcome to the Library

Frederic Murray Frederic Murray Assistant ProfessorAssistant ProfessorMLIS, University of British ColumbiaMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of IowaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa

Instructional Services LibrarianInstructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

http://www.indeed.com/

Discipline Specific Resources• Education – Author Ken Bain • PT/Exercise Science/Athletic

Training– Journal of Athletic Training

• Business – Professor Michael Porter– Harvard Business Review– Bloomberg Business Week– Author Chris Anderson – The Long Tail

Discipline Specific Resources• English- Wallace Stegner• Criminal Justice

– William (Bill) Stuntz • The Collapse of American Criminal

Justice

• Pharmacy– Keep Studying!

Tools of Scholarship

Content• Books• Articles• Journals• Citations• WWW

Tools• Catalogs• Databases• Lists• Indexes• Search Engines

Catalogs, Databases, & Search Engines

• A comprehensive list of the books, periodicals, maps, and other materials in a given collection.

• A large, regularly updated file of digitized information related to a specific subject or field.

• Computer software designed to help the user locate information available at sites on the World Wide Web by selecting categories from a hierarchical directory of subjects (example: Yahoo!) or by entering appropriate keywords or phrases (Google).

Catalogs

• Al Harris

• Open WorldCat

• Ebrary ( Digital Books)

Databases

• Academic Search Complete – General Source

• Subject Specific

• Refer to Campus Guides

Class Exercise – Digital Books• Create a bookshelf in Ebrary

• Locate a book in Ebrary & add it to your bookshelf

• Open the book using the Ebrary Reader & highlight a chapter heading using the infotool

Class Exercise - Databases• Locate the Campus Guide for your

discipline

• Write down three databases specific to your discipline

• Search the term education in one of the selected databases

Questions?

• Contact me:– Frederic Murray

• 744-7113• frederic.murray@swosu.edu

Thanks!