LIBRARY SKILLS TRAINING Amélie Bigras, librarian Gaspé campus library September 27th, 2018 Adventure Tourism
CONTENU DE LA PRÉSENTATION 1. Tour of the library 2. Library website 3. Information research steps 4. Research strategies 5. Demonstration in our electronic resources 6. Test!!!
2 - LIBRARY WEBSITE
Source : http://www.cegepgim.ca/biblio/english-section/guides
BEING ORGANIZED TO ALWAYS CITE YOUR SOURCES Keeping track of consulted sources + information obtained + date (web)! In the text (APA citation style): Citation: «information taken from a source»+ bibliographic information : (Author, Year, Page number) Paraphrase: Reformulated information in my own words + (Author, Year, Page number) Bibliography (end of paper): *Changes depending of the information source (books, articles, video, websites): Author. Publication Year. Title. Editor. Page number. Hyperlink. Consultation date. BIBLIOGRAPHIC STYLES : being careful to adapt to the right citation style : APA (Education, Health, Comm., Psycho, Geo, ) MLA (Linguistics, Literature, ) Chicago (Anthropology, Sociology, Theology ) Vancouver (Health, Medecine, ) ACS (Chemistry, )
3 - INFORMATION RESEARCH STEPS
INFORMATION RESEARCH STEPS 1. Prepare your research Choose an information source Identify the search terms (keywords) Find out more about your subject Develop and refine your topic, writing a research question 2. Finding information efficiently Choose an information system (library catalog, databases, search engine, etc.) Exploit search strategies (too many results, too few results) 3. Evaluate information* Relevance Up to date, credible, exact, reliable, objective, valid, quality 4. Cite sources Write your bibliography in a citation style Source : https://mondiapason.ca
STRUCTURING YOUR INFORMATION RESEARCH Understanding your writing assignment Concept plan template
4 - RESEARCH STRATEGIES
GOOGLE VERSUS INFORMATION SYSTEMS: SEARCHING IN BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTICES
Other keywords we could have used to find this document : Tourisme d aventure (french) (Adventure) Tourism Management Geography (natural geography, human geography ) (Adventure) Tourism Industry Environment, climate change Wildlife, Marine, Boardsports, Heliskiing
Other keywords we could have used to find this document : Tourist trade (New) business entreprises Business + Adventure Business + Adventure Tourism
SUBJECT : GENERIC TO SPECIFIC : BROADER TERMS OR MORE PRECISION Searching into : - Table of contents - Index World Tourism Organisation (WTO) : international organizations North America (continent) : Canada (country) Travel and Tourism (Canada Gov.), Canada Travel, Statistics Canada Quebec (province) : Ministère du Tourisme du Québec Balise Québec Rando Québec = hiking trails SÉPAQ = Société des établissements de plein air du Québec = National parks Réseau ZEC = zones d exploitation contrôlée = ZEC York-Baillargeon Sport : Hiking = Hike = Randonnée pédestre = Forest excursion = Excursion en forêt = Trek = trekking = Randonnée d aventure Images sources : https://www.st-amable.qc.ca/protection-des-arbres https://afsq.org/identifier-les-arbres/ Targeted customer : Excursionnist = Walker = Marcheur =Tripper = Randonneurs = Amateurs d activités de plein air = Adventure amateur
"EXACT EXPRESSION" English Quotation marks "mot" So you can search exactly these two words back-to-back : Carfeul! You won t be able to find any synonyms nor any orthographic variants : Forest Nature clé clef Source : http://bdl.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/bdl/gabarit_bdl.asp?id=4659
TRUNCATION* Asterisk * Noun Feminization Plural Verb Adverb Adjective At the end of the word to get all different spellings : fish* = will also get : fishboat, fisher, fisherman, fishery, fish farm, fishing,... Careful! If too narrow, this could make some noise : adv* to get adventure, adventurous and adventurer. you will also get: advance, advantage, adviser, advent, advertisement, advocate, Solution : truncation in is rightful place! adventur* (adventure = adventurous) Combine two concepts with a bolean operator OR : (aventur* OU adventur*)
ONE CONCEPT PER SEARCH BOX
DON T ADD EVERYTHING IN THE SAME BOX (PARENTHESIS USAGE) = RESEARCH PRIORITIES
5 - DEMONSTRATION IN OUR ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
OUR ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ACCESS Define, precise a notion or the usage of a word To be familiarized with my subject To find books, specialized dictionnaries and encyclopedias, movies or other To find periodical articles (scientific or vulgarisation) To find videos (movies and documentaries) To follow the news and press releases Adapted by : cegepsl.qc.ca/bibliotheque/catalogue et ressources en ligne
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Business and Management Arts University - Multidisciplinary Social Sciences Sciences and technologies ABI Inform AFI Inform (movies) Politic, economic and social data Access Science Business Insights American Music Academic Search Complete History reference center Annual Reviews Canadian Business and Current affairs Camio (fine arts) JSTOR World at War BioOne (Ecology, biology) Factiva industrial and companies Oxford Art Online
Source : https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/evaluating-information-sources
6 - AND THE MOMENT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR : THE TEST!
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IN TEAMS! Teams of 2 per computer. Answer all questions as fast as you can but do it well! *1 point per good answer. **Bonus of 2 points to the quickest team. ***Bonus of 2 points for the team with the most good answers. Source de l image : https://pixabay.com/fr/d%c3%a9marrage-personnes-silicon-valley-593341/
BACK TO PLENARY What are your answers? Which team is the winner??? CONGRATS and THANK YOU all!!! Source de l image : Pixabay : https://pixabay.com/fr/aventure-retour-sans-soucis-2548133/
Source : https://pixabay.com/en/question-markhand-drawn-solution-2123969/ THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? Need help? Come and see us at your local library! Amélie Bigras, librarian 418 368-2201 poste 1580