Or, how to use the library to get the most out of your college career!

Periodicals

• Popular Magazines: News, hobbies, business, general information and entertainment. General interest Photos and stories Examples are: Time, Carolina Gardener, Bloomburg Business Week, People.

articles . • Scholarly journals: Characteristics are educational orientation peer reviewed articles, footnotes and references, . Examples are: Nursing Magazine, Journal of Developmental Education.

Google anyone?

You have to determine what is real…

• • • • • Anyone can put anything on the web, true or not, as long as they pay for a website.

To determine which sites to use for research look at the endings of the htpp address: (Best  are education www.library.csi.cuny.edu , non-profits www.scribblingwomen.org , and government sites www.cia.gov

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Other reliable online resources:

Dot coms are commercial sites as are dot net. They have to be evaluated for validity. News resources, magazines and scholarly journals that are available online are acceptable resources: www.scientificamerican.com

www.abc.net.au Australia) from Britain) (note this is abc news in www.guardian.co.uk (and this is news www.huffingtonpost.com resource came from.) (a usenet site offers links to other resources—some of which may be blogs etc. so look at where the

Verify your resource

• • • modernsurvivalblog.com pass.

(Blogs are people’s opinions. If footnoted and linked to scholarly journals, it is probably bona fide. Otherwise,

Never use wikipedia.org

as it is written by lay people and has misinformation.

NCLive and Sirs offer website links that have been vetted for authenticity. These are the best resources, and available through your library!

Plagiarism

• • • Is using material as your own without giving credit to the source. If you cut & paste direct works or summarize an author’s words or ideas you must acknowledge the original author by citing where you got the information. Software can now find passages from the web.

Buying or using another person’s term paper is the worst example of plagiarism and carries harsh penalties. To avoid plagiarism…

Give credit where it is due…

• • • • • Everything written, photographed & drawn is copyright © protected, even on the web!

You cannot cut and paste material without proper

footnotes and work sited information

. If it is found online, give the web address information from (you can cut & paste this from the well at the top of the page.) of the page you are taking Books have the page, usually. Magazines list them on the editorial standard page.

copyright details on the inside of the first You must use quotes around any non-paraphrased text.

Usually no more than 1/10 th of a work can be used directly.

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NC LIVE and NCknows

NC LIVE Online Database Provides:

• 29,000 eBooks • 18,000 full text journals, magazines, newspapers (including Wall Street Journal) • 400 videos (including PBS Videos Online!) • Thousands of images and maps (SimplyMap database) • Interactive tests and tools • Auto Repair (Auto Repair Reference Center) • Business & Investment Tools • Health and Medicine (CINAHL w/full-text, PsycInfo, PubMed, MEDLINEplus) • History & Biography • Hobbies & Interests • Images & Art • College and Career Preparation (Career Library, LearningExpress Library) • Literature & Literary criticism • Entrepreneurial Information • Genealogy and Family History (HeritageQuest) • Primary Source Documents (ABC-CLIO) • Lesson Plans (Searchasaurus, PBS Video Collection) • Reference (Gale Virtual Reference Collection, ReferenceUSA) • 999 eAudio Books • North Carolina and U.S. government sites and information • E-books

NCknows offers a reference librarian to help you 24/7 and will send a transcript to your email of all the information you have discovered through this resource—your own personal librarian!

Also SIRS Facts on File and Anatomy TV (library access only for the latter)

Other resources…

Books, encyclopedias, reference materials Maps, charts, atlases, newspapers and images!

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Speaking about books, what is up with Dewey?

The 10 main groups are: 000–099, general works; 100–199, philosophy and psychology; 200–299, religion; 300–399, social sciences; 400–499, language; 500–599, natural sciences and mathematics; 600–699, technology; 700–799, the arts; 800–899, literature and rhetoric; and 900–999, history, biography, and geography. 671.521

 Dewey classification number Ala  First three letters of the author’s surname or subject: Wel=welding The arrangement of books on the shelves follows the outline of the classification system. Books with the following call numbers will appear on the shelves in this order, with numerical placement being the primary classification: 610.3 610.712

610.73 610.73 610.73 610.736

Nat Fur Ala Bro Smi Atw Notice that .712 comes before .73 in the 2nd and 3rd examples. Each number is read independently. In this instance, .71 comes before .73. It is not read as seven-twelve.

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