LIS 100 IFEST
Discover essential details regarding the LIS 100 iFest event. Gain insights into what knowledge is crucial for participation and engagement. Prepare yourself with the necessary information to make the most of this experience and enhance your understanding of LIS topics.
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LIS 100 IFEST What should you know?
What will be covered? First seven weeks of the semester Organization of material Defining your research question Searching the online catalog Searching the periodical databases Library of Congress Subject Headings Call numbers Print indices Netiquette IFEST
What to bring and how to prepare Something to write with Your brain Preparing for the IFEST All your notes All of your assignments All of the tutorials Instruction videos IFEST
Details of IFEST 65 minutes 10, 5 and 1 minute(s) notification Use all the time and double check your answers Answer everything. Don t leave anything blank Complete simple questions first Remember to go back if you skipped anything Please leave back row empty IFEST
Netiquette What is it? Ten rules to abide by Netiquette site Netiquette quiz Google: netiquette home Core Rules of Netiquette The Netiquette Quiz http://www.albion.com/netiquette/ IFEST
Information Competency and you Definition From the IC tutorial page http://www.sac.edu/rsccdasp/InformationCom petency/index_defined.html What is not information competency IFEST
Research Process First things first Know your Librarian Differences between a topic and a research question Research question: What do you do first? Turn your topic into a research question How do you do that? What, when, where, how, why IFEST
Research Process: Research Question What is the next step once you have a research question? Identify Keyword(s) Key phrase(s) What is the next step? Identify synonyms Identify related terms IFEST
Research Process What type of material is best? What type of material can be utilized? Appropriate material Speeches Books Articles Videos Newspaper IFEST
Research Process Bibliography vs. biography A bibliography is a list of sources used for your research A biography is a story about someone s life. Primary sources Secondary sources Tertiary sources IFEST
Database Searching Databases are made up of information called ______________ Records are made up of ________________ Fields are what we search. Fields are also called access points If you know and understand the structure of a database, you can search it more effectively. IFEST
Database Searching What is the difference between field searching and keyword searching? What type of results do you retrieve when you use keyword searching? What is the result of keyword searching? False Drops records not relevant to your search IFEST
Subject Headings From a Controlled vocabulary Help describe the contents of an item Help you locate other material categorized under the same subject heading Where will you find these? The Bibliographic record IFEST
Library of Congress Subject Headings BT NT SA RT Be able to analyze a page from Subject Headings (Big Red Books) IFEST
Online Catalog Which type of database would this be? Bibliographic Numeric Full-text IFEST
Online Catalog OPAC Electronic catalog Contains everything that is located in the library Books, videos, cd s, dvd s, magazine titles, ebooks (Not articles) Search by subject, title, author keyword IFEST
Online Catalog continued Basic searching Search for an author (field) Search for a subject (field) Advanced sarching Combine more than one term Catalogs at University libraries and Public Libraries IFEST
Online catalog Citations and their purpose Parts of a book citation Title Author Publisher Year published IFEST
Online Catalog Bibliographic record and its parts Author Title Subjects Call number Publisher Date Format: Book, video, microfilm, microfiche IFEST
Organization of material Organizes all material in libraries All knowledge broken down into subjects Library of Congress Classification System Dewey Decimal system Which is used at SAC library? IFEST
Ebooks Virtual books combined with real books Found using online catalog Electronic resource Viewed only online Not found on the shleves Never accrue late fees IFEST
Periodicals What are they? (Three types) Magazines Newspapers Journals Why are they important? They will have the most recent information about your topic. IFEST
Periodicals Locating past articles Print Indices Mostly for retrieving old articles Only include citations Electronic databases Retrieve citations Retrieve full-text Retrieve abstracts IFEST
Periodicals Citations and their purpose Parts of a periodical citation Title of article Title of source (name of magazine, newspaper, journal) Author of article Date of article Page number where article can be found IFEST
Peridocial databases Purpose to help you locate magazine, newspaper and journal articles. Parts of periodical database record Title of article Title of source Author Date, Vol., Issue, Pages Abstract = summary IFEST
Periodical databases Limiters Date Location (owned by the library) Full-text Peer reviewed Publication title = source Field searching IFEST
Pedriodical database Basic searching Advancing searching Field searching Keyword searching IFEST
Peridodical databases Newspaper database will contain newspaper articles Writing is for general public. IFEST
Terms to know and what they do Truncation What is this? What does this do to a search Where can it be used in an online catalog Boolean searching What is this? What does this do to a search? IFEST
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