Library 101

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Library 101
Getting the information you need to succeed
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Access

• Default home page from any library PC
• Off-campus access
• Enter URL http//depts.alverno.edu/library/
• Navigate from the college web page

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Articles

• Articles are stored in databases
• Citation only
• Full text
• Full text online journals link
• Journal title link

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Articles

• Quiz Time!
• Crowder, Rachael. Check your fly tales of a
  woman fly fisher. Canadian Woman Studies 21.3
  (Wntr-Spring 2002) 162(4).

How would you locate this item?
1. Search for Crowder, Rachael using the Author
link on the library web page.
2. Search for Canadian Woman Studies in the Full
Text Online Journals page.
3. Search for Canadian Woman Studies using the
Title link from the library web page.
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Books, E-Books, Videos etc.

• Items the library owns are stored in the TOPCAT
  database
• SWITCH Consortium

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Books, E-Books, Videos etc.

• Quiz Time!
• My instructor told me that the library had a
  video, but I cant remember the title. I think it
  was Guns, Germs and something I want to get the
  DVD version.

How would you locate this item?
1. Search by title and enter as much as you
know, i.e. Guns Germs
2. Search by keyword and enter guns
3. Search by subject and enter guns.
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Requesting Materials

• From other SWITCH libraries
• Inter Library Loan (ILL)
• Plan ahead

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Web Searching

• Best place to start Selected Web Links
• Organized by Subject

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Web Searching

• Who said that?

"My guess is about 300 years until computers are
as good as, say, your local reference library in
doing search. But we can make slow and steady
progress, and maybe one day we'll get there."
Craig Silverstein, the first employee at Google
and now director of technology
Source http//www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/25/
sunday/main608672.shtml
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Self Paced Tutorials

• Created by SWITCH
• Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism module

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Getting Help

• E-Mail
• Phone

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A final word

• Why this stuff matters
• Consider the Google China controversy
  http//www.google.cn