Library Overview

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD CRL News, May 2004 Vol. 65,
No. 5, P. 247
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Library Research

• First Year English
• Legacy of the Mediterranean
• Professor Olsen
• Tuesday, October 11, 2005
• Librarian Jenna Freedman

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• http//www.barnard.edu/library/
• This is the portal to all knowledge.
• Or, if you insist, Library Web
• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/

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library layout

• http//www.barnard.edu/library/
• LibraryMap.htm
• Notethe Barnard Library is in the Lehman
  Building. There is a (CU) Lehman Library that is
  located in the International Affairs Building on
  Amsterdam Avenue.
• 1st Floor circ/reserve, study hall/reading room,
  stand up use computers
• 2nd Floor ref desk, ref collection, stacks
  (literature), periodicals, microforms, student
  workstations, zines
• 3rd Floor media desk, media center, media
  materials, media viewing/listening, stacks
  (everything but literature)
• Tunnel/Basement Barnard Archives

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library information http//www.barnard.edu/library
/aboutinf.htm

• Circulation 4 weeks, renewable, recallable
• Same loan period for all users
• Hours
• http//www.barnard.edu/library/springhrs.htm
• M-Th 845-11
• F 845-6
• Sa 10-5
• Su 10-11

STACKS HOURS
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reference serviceshttp//www.barnard.edu/library/
aboutinf.htmREFERENCE

• Call 4-3953
• E-mail refdesk_at_barnard.edu
• Visit the reference desk
• IM BarnardLibJenna (also BarnardLibLois,
  BarnardLibKaren, BarnardLibHeidi)
• Virtual Reference "Ask us now chat, available
  M-F 1-5 http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/r
  eference
• Consultations http//www.barnard.edu/library/forms
  /consult.htm. Sessions arranged by appointment.
• Please ask us for help! Thats what were here
  for.

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CLIO - books, e-books, serials (not articles),
media materials, microforms, etc.

• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/clio.ht
  ml

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keyword searches

• Words that appear in any part of the record
  (author, title, publisher, etc.)
• Boolean logic AND, OR, NOT
• Use quotation marks for phrases
• Truncation?
• Fun with search results
• Sorting
• Quick limits

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subject search results

• Case insensitive, no punctuation necessary
• Subject headings list
• Subdivisions
• Downloading options
• Clickable fields
• Views basic full

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author titles searches

• Delete initial articles a, an, the.
• Same goes for foreign languages un, une, le,
  la, etc.

• Last name first
• --but what is the last name?

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databases - primarily articles, but also e-books,
dissertations, statistics and other materials

• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databas
  es/

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MLA Modern Language Association of America
http//www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AKU288
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• i
• Sort/rank
• Related subjects
• Mark records to print/e-mail/save
• Limits

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LION Literature Online http//www.columbia.edu/cg
i-bin/cul/resolve?ANH1976

• Search by author
• Texts
• Works about
• Bibliography

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ProQuest Direct http//www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/c
ul/resolve?ANH8357

• Advanced search
• Citation and abstract vs. Citation and article
  text
• Suggested topics publications
• Source tabs (Scholarly, trade)
• Results per page, sort by relevance
• Limits, print/e-mail/save, alerts
• Check CLIO for FT links to non-FT articles

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other apt databases

• Humanities Full Text (general) http//www.columbia
  .edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AMG2761
• JSTOR (scholarly, FT) http//www.columbia.edu/cgi-
  bin/cul/resolve?AMG1286
• Womens Studies International (abstracts back to
  1972) http//www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?
  APE2199

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Other Catalogshttp//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/ere
sources/databases/resource_type_10.html

• New York Public Library
• CATNYP http//catnyp.nypl.org/
• LEO http//leopac.nypl.org
• BobCatPlus http//www.bobcatplus.nyu.edu/
• Also other CU affiliates http//www.columbia.edu/c
  u/lweb/indiv/
• Columbia Law School
• Jewish Theological Seminary
• Teachers College

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guides

• Research guide for this class http//www.barnard.e
  du/library/courses/Fall2005/BC1201.htm
• Barnard Subject Guides www.barnard.edu/library/sub
  jectguides.htm
• Literature
• Women's Studies
• Columbia Subject Guides www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/e
  guides/
• Recommended Reference Materials
  http//www.barnard.edu/library/courses/Fall2005/BC
  1201Olsen.htm

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etc.

• Remote access UNI Password
• Evaluating web resources http//www2.widener.edu/W
  olfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm
  
• Internet Librarians Internet Index
  http//lii.org, Google advanced search, Dogpile,
  A9
• Library FAQs http//www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/help/
  faq/
• Style Guides http//www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
• Endnote http//www.barnard.edu/library/endnote.htm