Controlled Vocabulary

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Controlled Vocabulary

• Library of Congress Subject Headings Searching
  I-Share Thesauri for Databases

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Why do you use them?
• To learn the most appropriate subject heading
• To conduct more pertinent subject searches
• How do you use them?
• REF Z695 .Z8 L524 2005 or the website
  http//authorities.loc.gov
• Begin by inputting your proposed topic
• Broaden or narrow your search as needed
• BT (broader term), NT (narrower term), RT
  (related term), UF (used for)

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Subject Heading Assignment

• Use the LC Subject Headings (Red books, Online
  LC, or I-Share) to
• Examine Physical Therapy look at the scope
  notes, broader terms, related terms, narrower
  terms
• Examine Rehabilitation in the same way
• Look at your topic
• What will the appropriate subject heading be?

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Library of Congress Classification System

• Call Numbers on materials in libraries are
  created by using the classification system
• Top line of call number indicates Subject
• Makes browsing possible to locate materials
  on a similar subject
• Use the PDF version of the link below
• http//lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lccowp.html
• Assignment Look at website and determine which
  Call Number areas are most appropriate for your
  topic and make a list of the best 3 and what
  they represent.

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Searching the Online Catalog, I-Share

• www.mckendree.edu/library
• There is a tutorial in both PowerPoint and
  PDF format available on the Library website
• To search I-Share
• Quick Search is the default
• Guided Keyword Search can be chosen
• Scroll down for Subject Search
• Can limit to material type and time (pull down
  menu)
• More limits button provides additional limiting
  choices
• Scroll down for examples on searching

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The Universal Catalog My Account

• Holman Library is a member of a consortium of
  the 65 academic libraries in Illinois (CARLI)
• Clicking on I-Share Catalog takes you to a
  choice of searching the Universal Catalog
  (ALL CARLI) libraries or selecting individual
  libraries of the consortium
• When you have an unsuccessful search in the
  McKendree catalog, you can Repeat search in
  I-Share Catalog and be redirected to the
  universal catalog

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My Account

• You can request materials from the universal
  catalog by clicking on Request when you have
  retrieved the bibliographic record
• Use the pull down menu to select McKendree
  College as your home library
• Your library borrower ID is made up of the prefix
  2401100 followed by your student ID number (a 7
  digit number) to make 14 digits total example
  24011000012345. Add your last name.

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Getting Material from the Library

• Materials requested from another library are sent
  via a courier service that delivers to the
  library 3 days per week
• The library will send them to you if you are off
  campus. You are responsible for sending them back
  to Holman Library. (All of this takes a little
  time so keep that in mind if you are interested
  in this option.)
• You can renew materials, track materialscharged
  to you and requested by you in My Account

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Searching I-Share
www.mckendree.edu/library Assignment Search your
topic in I-Share (both the McKendree
catalog and the Universal Catalog) Print out the
five most pertinent items you can find (books,
videos, DVDs, audio books, ebooks, etc.) Write
about the process used to locate the
items Include all the terms you used before
locating the selected item. What search type did
you use? Keyword, subject, title or?
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Thesauri Subject Headings for Databases

• EBSCO Databases (uses the terms subjects
  indexes thesauri)Academic Search Premier
  HealthSource Nursing/Academic MEDLINE
• MeSH medical subject headings
• http//www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
• Used for Medline and medical library cataloging
• PubMed articles and books indexed by the
  National Library of Medicine
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dbP
  ubMed
• FirstSearch Databases ECO, WilsonSelectPlus,
  WorldCat
• Only way to see the thesaurus is to do a search
  and then click on related subjects
• Lexis-Nexis
• Subject, keyword, browse search capabilities