Essential Library Skills

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1 Essential Library Skills Graduate Research Methods Seminar (2) School of English Isolde Harpur Subject Librarian October 2009 Trinity College Library Dublin, College Street, Dublin 2

2 Learning Outcomes By the end of this session, you should be able to: Name some key printed sources Locate film and microfilm collections in the catalogue Identify useful databases Conduct a search in a database Access information about EndNote Connect to the SIF Information Literacy Tutorial

3 Key Printed Sources Key Printed Sources

4 Key Printed Sources Irish University Review: a Journal of Irish Studies Shelved in the Periodicals Reading Room, Ussher Basement at PER edition has index covering Sources For The History of Irish Civilisation: Articles in Irish Periodicals/Edited by Richard J. Hayes Shelved in the Iveagh Hall, Berkeley Library. Consists of 9 volumes divided into Dates, Persons, Places and Subjects. Irish periodicals catalogued range in date of publication from about 1800 to Includes articles, poems and reviews in periodicals in Ireland which contain material of value for research into every aspect of Irish history and culture

5 Film Collections Film Collections

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7 TCD Library, Trinity College, College Green, Dublin 2

8 Film Collections LEN- 2 day loan No LEN Prefix- 1 week loan All films are available from the Multimedia Area in Iveagh Hall. Viewing facilities are in the Assistive Technology Information Centre (ATIC).

9 Microfilm Collections Microfilm Collections

10 Microfilm Collections More info on these titles available from Abolition And Emancipation First Line Index Of Manuscript Poetry In The Folger Shakespeare Library First Line Index Of Manuscript Poetry In The Huntington Library Foxe And The English Reformation, c Gothic Fiction Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts Renaissance Commonplace Books From The Huntington Library Renaissance Man Women Advising Women Women, Education And Literature Women s Autobiographies

11 Microfilm Collections Oscar Wilde Collection Filmed from the holdings of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of the University of California at Los Angeles

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13 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2

14 TCD Library, Trinity College, College Green, Dublin 2

15 Databases Databases

16 Definition of Databases Definition of Databases Databases are electronic indexes of articles, books, or information which can be searched with their own search engine; they cannot be accessed through a common search engine like Google

17 Types of Databases Databases can be classed as follows: SUBJECT: Focusing on a particular subject area such as History or English UNIQUE FORMAT TYPE: e.g. Journals or Books or Newspapers or Theses BIBLIOGRAPHIC: Citations only FULL TEXT: Citations plus full text

18 Search Strategy Tips Search Strategy Tips A search strategy is an information seeking plan so Determine what the keywords are Identify alternative terms for these keywords (if necessary) Refine the search (by date etc.) Use Boolean Searching, e.g. connect keywords with AND, OR, AND NOT and NEAR(or WITHIN) Literature and Yeats (retrieves documents containing both words) Poetry or Verse (retrieves documents containing either keyword useful when there are several common synonyms) Literature and not Poetry (excludes unwanted terms) Literature near 10 (or any number) Yeats (the two terms are required to occur within 10 words of each other)

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20 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Subject Guides

21 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Subject Guides

22 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 All Databases for English

23 Search Example Using a Library database, find information by or about Hilary Mantel, winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

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25 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Subject Guides

26 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Web of knowledge

27 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Web of knowledge

28 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Web of knowledge

29 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Web of knowledge

30 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Web of knowledge

31 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 Check TCD e-journals

32 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 The New York Review of Books

33 The New York Review of Books - Archives Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2

34 The New York Review of Books - Archives Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2

35 The New York Review of Books - Archives Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2

36 Free access only available from the Library website Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2

37 Web of knowledge Additional Features Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2

38 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Author Search

39 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Author Search

40 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Author Search

41 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Author Search

42 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Text Search

43 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Text Search

44 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Text Search

45 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Text Search

46 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Text Search

47 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline Poets on Screen

48 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 LIterature ONline My Archive

49 LIterature ONline Do Your Own Search Choose your own topic and search for it in LION

50 EndNote The Library manages the campus licence for the bibliographic reference manager, EndNote. Current staff and students are permitted to install a copy of the software on Institutionowned or operated machines EndNote can be used to store, manage, organise and format bibliographic references to be used in your research papers and publications EndNote classes take place on Mondays at 2pm and Fridays at 10am. All postgraduates and staff are sent an about classes. First of the sessions starts on November 2 nd at 2pm. Places are booked online via the link in the

51 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 EndNote

52 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2 EndNote

53 Trinity College Library, College Street, Dublin 2

54 You should now be able to Name some key printed sources Locate film and microfilm collections in the catalogue Identify useful databases Conduct a search in a database Access information about EndNote Connect to the SIF Information Literacy Tutorial