The Internet, or World
Wide Web
For the quiz you'll need to know the difference
between Databases
and the Internet.
A global network of
Internet servers providing access to documents written in a
script called Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
You can get a lot of
information via the internet using Google and the
like. But it is not from our
databases. You really shouldn't use it until you know how to
judge if a site is good or not. You shouldn't use it until
you ask your teachers if they
allow Internet sources other than our databases. Some professors at Lyon don't allow
them. Until you know what you are doing, do not consider anything
but our databases
as your source for
scholarly material. We'll learn how to judge what the good,
bad, and ugly is, later.
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The Major hitters
Now that we've clarified the difference between
databases and the Internet, let's go over some of our major hitters:
The Mabee-Simpson
Library Catalog
When you are at the library's home page: library.lyon.edu, you can
click on the books link, then The Mabee-Simpson Library Catalog,
and you'll see this screen below.
You can search for books, journal titles, videos, DVD's, maps, children's
books, etc.
The Power search is fun because you can get a lot more detail into
your search.
For example, the library owns over 2500 videos.
The graphic below shows you how to find out the titles that we have.
After you click on the link "Power Search" you should change the
item box to "Videocass." I put adventure in the subject
box. Then you get a list of all of the adventure flicks.
Don't forget that you can also search the DVD collection by using DV
in the item type box.
For the quiz I'll ask you to find a video in iLink. |
WorldCat
For the quiz you may have to search for something in
WorldCat and tell me what you found.
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Another database that is very valuable for your
research is WorldCat. If The Mabee-Simpson Library
Catalog doesn't have your book, you
can usually find it in WorldCat and fill out the online
Interlibrary form to order it. WorldCat is an international
catalog of books.
When you are searching on the library's homepage, click the
link books, then WorldCat. When I did a
search for needlework, I came up with this book. To order
from Inter-library loan, I clicked: See more details for
locating this item.
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Once you click on that link, you fill out an
online form and click the submit button. That file goes to
our Interlibrary Loan department and we order it for you from
another library. It takes 7-14 days and the cost is
fifty cents per book or five cents perpage for articles.
We'll call or email you when it comes in. The book usually
has a loan period of a month, and the articles are yours to
keep.
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Academic Search
Premier
When in the library's homepage, click on the journal
articles link, and then on "Academic Search Premier."
It's the first on the list, because of alphabetizing, but it's also
one of the biggest databases and where most students find lots of
articles.
I searched for cats. Lucky me! Look at the icons
beneath the title.
- HTML Full text means I click that and get the full
text and print.
- PDF Full text also means I click it and get the full
text, photo perfect copies of the actual pages in the article
and then I get to print it.
- CHECK LinkSource for Full Text is what I would click
if I were desperate: meaning there weren't any other icons below
the title. Sometimes if you follow the links, it will lead
to full text, but if it doesn't, it gives you a link to an
interlibrary loan form that you can fill out online, submit, and
then you'll get the article.
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One More Thing About Databases
If you
are curious about seeing a list of all our databases,
take a look at the Databases link found in the journal
articles page. It lists every database we own, the
date range, the format of full-text or citation/abstract, and
what it is about. Here's what it looks like:
If that
gets confusing and you get lost, look in the left column and
click on your subject. Only databases that contain
information about your subject will be listed on these subject
pages.
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Interlibrary Loan
For the quiz, you should know where the ILL forms are
at the library and which database offers online ILL ordering and where
you can find the ILL form on the library's homepage.
Because
there aren't any other university or college libraries nearby, we rely heavily on
Interlibrary Loan. As mentioned above, we can borrow books and
articles from other libraries for you.
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WorldCat is the most popular online database for
ordering ILL.
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There is also a form for interlibrary loan located
on the home page.It is essential for article ordering. Just
click the link, fill out the form and submit it. We''ll notify
you when the article comes in. Articles will cost five cents
per page when you pick them up.
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You can also order using the paper forms in the library. Kathy Whittenton, our ILL Manager, keeps a
supply of forms at the front desk for you to fill out for your ILL
requests. It's handy to print out your citation and staple it to
her form. It takes 10- 14 days to get them once you have
submitted your forms to her. Just ask us about it at the front
desk.
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She'll call or e-mail you when they arrive.
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Books cost .50 cents each and articles cost .05 cents
a sheet.
Electronic Books-
Netlibrary
For the quiz, you must be able to identify an electronic
book in our collection and search for titles in Netlibrary ebooks.
When you are searching in The Mabee-Simpson Catalog, you may run across an
electronic book now and then. We have purchased about 19,000 of
these for your research. They are the full text of a book online. They look like this.
They always have computer file in brackets. [computer file]
The easiest way to get to these books is simply to click the Books link
and then the Netlibrary ebooks link. You get a nice search box and
away you go. Unfortunately, you can only print one page at a time with these
books. But there is always copy and paste.
OK, that's it folks. You are ready for quiz #5.
Contact Us
Mabee-Simpson Library,
Lyon College
2300 Highland Road, Batesville, AR 72501
Front desk (870) 698-4205
Inter-library Loan (870) 698-1744
Last Maintenance: Aug 07, 2006
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