Transcript Lakeside High School Media Center

Lakeside High School
Library Orientation
Our Hours
7:30 am - 3:30 pm
Mrs. Rachel Shankles
Library Media Specialist
Library Rules
• Check out all books before exiting the
library.
• Return reference material to the book cart or
counter.
• You must be quiet, not visit, keep chairs on
the floor and avoid rowdy behavior.
Rules (continued)
• Return books on due
date or face a fine.
• Food, gum, and drinks
are prohibited.
CONSEQUENCES
• FINES: NO FINES IF POLITE
• TWO WEEK SUSPENSION OF LIBRARY VISITS FOR
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR.
• SEMESTER SUSPENSION OF LIBRARY VISITS FOR
PREVIOUSLY REPRIMANDED OFFENDERS.
• THE LIBRARIAN OR HER ASSISTANTS MAY
REMOVE ANY STUDENT FOR DISRUPTIVE
BEHAVIOR.
DISK OR DISC???
When do you spell it
“disk” and when do
you use “disc”?
DISK
• 3.5 inch floppy
disk
• hard disk drive in
CPU
• 5.25 inch floppy
disk
• Super disk or zip
DISC
• Audio CD
• CD-ROM
• Laser disc
• DVD
REVIEW
What do these mean?
• Disk – usual memory
storage device
• CD-ROM- compact disc
read only memory
• DISC (always round)
• DVD-Digital Versatile Disc
Act 903
The Arkansas Library
Privacy Act
Dewey Decimal System
• FICTION
• NONFICTION
FICTION
• Fiction is organized
alphabetically by the
author’s last name.
• Story Collections say
“SC” on the spine,
are fiction, and are
on the shelf by
author’s last name
also
NONFICTION
• 92/920 Biography
• 900 History
• 800 Literature
• 700 Fine Arts
• 600 Applied Science
• 500 Pure Science
Dewey Decimal System
• 400 Language
• 300 Social Science
• 200 Religion
• 100 Philosophy
• 000 General Reference
Reference Section
• Can’t check them out
• “R” on the spine
• All categories 000 to 999
Reference Books
• Too big, too tall, etc.
• Too expensive to lose
• Used too often
Reader’s Guide
Review of Magazine
Indexes
Cancer
see also
Breast Cancer
Lymphoma
My Nightmare. O.Winfrey. Good
Housekeeping. pors 112:46-47 Je 6, 95.
New Treatments, More Cures. J.Ritter.
Scientific American. il por 119:6-7+ O 10, 95.
Review
What do these mean?
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Q. Roberts
Time
119 : 23-28
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Boolean Logic
• How to tell the
computer what you
want it to do for you
• It sorts things in and
sorts things out of
your research
• You can not use
sentences or phrases
Logical Operators
AND
REQUIRES THAT THE TERMS BOTH BE
PRESENT IN A RECORD
OR
REQUIRES THAT EITHER THE FIRST
OR SECOND TERM BE PRESENT
NOT
REQUIRES THAT THE FIRST TERM BE
PRESENT, BUT ELIMINATES THE SECOND
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REVIEW BOOLEAN SEARCHING
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ABSTRACT
EBSCO
HIT or RESULT
LOGICAL OPERATOR
SEARCH TERM
CORRECT SPELLING ESSENTIAL
MLA WORKS CITED
• LIST OF BOOKS
AND ARTICLES
YOU USED TO
WRITE A
RESEARCH PAPER
• ALPHABETICAL
BY AUTHOR
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• REVERSE INDENT
Parts of Books
AUTHOR. “TITLE OF POEM, SHORT STORY,
ESSAY, OR CHAPTER.”TITLE OF BOOK.
CITY: PUBLISHER, DATE. PAGES.
Gorman, Randy. “Duplex Living.” City Living,
New York: Chelsea House, 1994. 30-40.
Stevens, Rick, and Susan Gubar. “Two Story Homes.”
Houses Today. Boston: H.W. Wilson, 1990. 380.
Book with No Author
Title. City: Publisher, date. Pages.
The Directory of the American Republic. New
York: Bowker, 1996. 102-104.
Book with Editor
Bloom, Harold, ed. Literary Essays on American
Novelists. New York: H.W. Wilson, 2001.
200-202.
Magazines & Journals
Author. “Title of article,” Title of
magazine date: pages.
Finney, A. “A Star is Born,” People Weekly
10 Oct. 1995: 10.
Garvey, S. “After All,”
Sports Illustrated 9 March 1995: 10-14.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
“King, Martin L.,” The World Book Encyclopedia,
1992 ed.
“TOPIC,” COMPLETE NAME OF ENCYCLOPEDIA,
the year of the edition ed.
NEWSPAPERS
Author if given. “Title of Article,”
Title of Newspaper
date: Section & Page.
McGovern, Clint. “The King is Dead.”
USA Today 10 March 1998: B2 .
VERTICAL FILE PAMPHLET
“TITLE.” PUBLISHER. YEAR PUBLISHED.
PAMPHLET.
“Warning Signs of Cancer.” American Cancer
Society. 1994. Pamphlet.
Electronic Sources (CD-ROM, VHS) Citations
(Use all info available or leave out/skip what you
can’t find; SIRS has no city or pub; a vhs will
have city, pub and date)
Author. “title of article.” title of magazine. title of
cd-rom, DVD, audio, or VHS cassette. Kind
of media. City: Publisher, Date.
Sanders, J. “Treasures.” Travel . SIRS. CD-ROM.
1998.
Internet Citation Minimum
Author if given. Title of Home Page.
date established or last revised
<internet address> date you visited
site.
Classic Cars. 1996
<http:\\classic.cars.com\level>
10 Feb. 98.
Works Cited
Arbuton, Mike, ed. House on the Edge. New York:
Chelsea House Publishers, 2001.
Baker, Rena. “How Green Was My Bank
Account.” Newsweek 17 July 1989: 108.
“Balancing the Budget.” Good Housekeeping
12 Jan. 1975: 25-28.
“Banking.” Comptons Encyclopedia. 1987 ed.
Caldwell, Jane. “The Rest of the Story.” New York
Times 26 Feb. 1991: 3B.
“Don’t Risk It.” National Pharmacy Assoc. 1995.
pamphlet.
Haliburton, M. and Sue Blue. Houses. NY: IRA, 1999.
Internet Searching
Put Keywords
here
Good Search Engines:
www.google.com
www.excite.com
www.dogpile.com
www.momma.com
www.northernlight.com
Internet Searching
•USE GOOGLE.COM AS BEST SEARCH
ENGINE
•DO NOT USE SEARCH BUTTON type
www.google.com into address line.
•USE A LONG SEARCH STRING OF
WORDS – 5 WORDS IS BEST- OR A
PHRASE OF EXACTLY WHAT YOU
WANT IN QUOTES
•PUT + SIGN ATTACHED TO 2ND, 3RD
WORDS, ETC.
•USE QUOTES FOR PROPER NOUNS
AND PHRASES
ON OUR MEDIA CENTER WEB SITE
Http://Lakeside.rams.dsc.k12.ar.us
EBSCO Magazine
Index
For Magazines Full Text
This has hundreds of
magazines and newspaper
full text articles.
You can reach EBSCO on all school computers and
from home for free. It is provided free by the Ark.
State Library to all libraries in our state under a
federal grant program.
Home log in can be reached at:
http://search.epnet.com
User ID is:
Password is:
Home log in can be reached at:
http://search.epnet.com
User ID is:
Password is:
First Screen: Choose Ebscohost Web
Go down the list of databases to
MAS Ultra- School Edition
ENTER YOUR KEYWORDS HERE
Drugs and sports and baseball
HIT
ENTER
RESULTS LIST
Gale Discovering Series on the Web
The Gale site is free for schools and for home
login and is provided by the Ark. State Library.
It contains not magazines but primary source
documents on History, Science and Literature.
Lots of author biographies and critical
interpretations of literary works appear in the
literature section. The History section contains
timelines, maps, flags, and other information.
You use keyword Boolean searching to reach
the information you need.
Put keywords here with “and”
prohibition
Results list
SEARCH STRATEGIES
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Card catalog (on-line or paper)
EBSCO for magazine citations (on internet)
Gale for history, literature, science or pictures
Newspaper articles from several sources
Vertical file information (articles or pamphlets)
S.I.R.S. - full text articles on Cd-rom mostly
journals and newspapers from all over country
• Reader’s Guide for additional current magazines
or older articles from back issues in our collection
of bound magazines to the 1950’s
Final Comments
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Read the Shelves
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Always Ask for Help