A lot of issues students have is not knowing where to start when doing a research paper.

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1 Library Orientation Presentation SLIDE ONE First screen Library Orientation Introduce myself Everyone turn off computer screen What class are you here for? A lot of issues students have is not knowing where to start when doing a research paper. SLIDE TWO Next slide-you will be able to List library resources and services Find ELAC library books SLIDE THREE Find articles in a library database With a partner where do you find information now? -ask students for response Have you heard of the open web vs. the invisible web? Define OPEN WEB and INVISBLE WEB GOOGLE- PROs and CONs PROS-fast answers CONs- too many responses/too much information-anyone can post Based on popularity. They results rise to the top. May not be reliable source-anyone can post on the Web SHOW SLIDE FOUR Searching the OPEN Web slide-list CONS SLIDE FIVE What s in a library? Now that we know that Google is one tool we can use-what about the library, what are some of the tools at the library?

2 SLIDE SIX Show Library RESOURCES and SERVICES slide HOLD UP-magazines & journals Books, reference books, subject encyclopedias DVDs, textbook reserves FIND BOOKS Move from slides to COLLEGE HOMEPAGE The first thing we are going to is find books. Where do you find books? In a catalog right? When I was young it was in a card catalog. Do you remember card catalogs? Big wooden boxes with drawers in it? Now everything is on the computer right? We just drop the word card since information about the book isn t written on a card anymore and keep the word catalog. You can think of using the computer to find books like open an old wooden drawer if you want to. ACCESS the catalog the following way: Main campus EXAMPLE: Immigrant-493 response Immigration CALIFONIA Click on WORDS or PHRASES-any word in the books Importing Poverty? Click on CATALOG RECORD for other SUBJECT TERMS-it s trying to think for you-just some extra HELP. Helps you find other books on the subject. Catalog number-is the books ADDRESS. Tells you where to find it on the shelves. EBOOKS What is an ebook? Electronic book. Access from anywhere you have an Internet connection. School or at home. It s a book you can read online. ELAC has 40,000 titles available Are ebooks part of OPEN Web or INVISIBLE Web?

3 Invisible because you have to use your ACE account, right? ON OR OFF CAMPUS.24/7. Part of your tuition goes to pay for the 40,000 titles. It s a paid service. Let s go to NetLibrary access to 20,000 titles. Let s do a full-text search on the following keywords: Marijuana AND laws-we get 367 results See RELATED TOPICS. See RECENT SEARCHES in case you forget. They are searching for keywords and they will show up in your responses I want one person to click on the first result. XXX can you please click on TITLE. Now everyone else click on the title. You can t right? Only one person can view at a time. Now enter your address and it will you when it becomes available. Kind of convenient right? Click on Understanding Marijuana. A New Look at Scientific Evidence Let s click on view this book. We see the COVER We see CONTENTS-click on a CHAPTER PAGE, GO, NEXT-if you fall asleep can go to the same place in the morning. Click on SEARCH-enter Timothy, it will take you to sections about it. Enter LSD. DATABASES Remember I said earlier that ELAC has access to over 40,000 ebooks. You can view them all by going to the MAIN CAMPUS and entering your search terms there also. Go back to elac homepage There are books, but we might want to include magazines, newspaper articles or scholarly journal articles as part of the research we do to write a research paper. Your professor might require that. Hold up all three types of publications Why might your professor want you to include articles in your research paper? Books take a while to publish, but I can write an article about a current issue and get it possibly published tomorrow for a newspaper or by the end of the week for a weekly or monthly magazine. So very current news on a subject right? When I was in school there was a big book to find out where all the articles on a subject appeared. It was called the XXXX Hold up the volume

4 What is the best way to find an article nowadays? Back to the computer right? Books were on the computer too, right? But in a catalog, articles are on a computer in a database. Articles are in databases. DEFINE What is a database? Data-information Base-place. I like to think of databases as information place for articles. Here is where we list databases Find Articles and More Hover your mouse over Online databases it will list the database that ELAC subscribes too. This isn t free right? A company assembled these articles and set up the searches, so your tuition pays for that and you need your ID to access it. Does that make it part of the OPEN Web or the INVISIBLE Web? Now just below the online databases is ONELINE DATABASE Descriptions. It starts with off-campus login instructions if you need that. Scroll down to DEFINE PROQUEST-can link from here. 4,000 scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers. Once you get familiar with the databases you can link from Online Databases Does anyone have a topic they would like me to search? Example: marijuana AND Law AND California-computer is searching these keywords TAB What is a scholarly journal? -SPECIALIZED STUDY. Your professor or teacher may require. Hold up magazine and scholarly journal again and describe differences. Explain KEYWORDS not QUESTIONS Point out SUGGESTED TOPICS -may have KEYWORDS you like better. Only TWO keywords shown. Point out TABS- Scholarly Journal and more-like a folder See NUMBER of returns See DATE (most recent first-not MOST RELEVANT), PUBLICATION NAME, TITLE, FULL ARTICLE OR NOT, PAGES

5 Go to scholarly articles-show how number is less CLICK on an article-show SUMMARY SHOW: FULL TEXT CITE THIS-MLA-can copy and paste into WORK CITED TO SELF PRINT Quotation Marks White House searches together DATES You can come back to the Journals, Newspapers and Articles workshop if you want. Go back to Learning OUTCOMES SLIDE #2 HANDOUT-ASSIGNMENT