The Quiz
For the quiz you are going to the library one more
time to do some research in the reference section. It's located to
the left as you enter the library. Reference books can't be
checked out because they are very expensive, but everyone can use them
in the building.
Here's your first task for this chapter.
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Pretend that Dr. Counts has assigned you a one-act play to read for
acting class. He wants you to go to the library and use the "Play
Index" in the Reference section to find it. Go and look at it.
The call number is: REF PN6110.7 .P53 V. 10. Get a librarian to
help you find it if necessary. Look at page 295. What kind of
play is being indexed on this page?
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You can also access the "Play index" online and skip the
paper copy at this link:
"Play Index".
Take a look. The "Play Index" tells you what books have the play in
them. Then you can take the book title, search our library catalog,
and find it.
The Internet, or World
Wide Web
For the quiz you'll need to know the difference
between Databases
and the Internet.
The Internet is a 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, Dogpile, and the
like, but most of the time, it is not from our
databases.
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.
Yes, we
realize that there is excellent content on the web, but until you
verify the website with your professors and until you know more
about how to critically analyze a website, you should think twice
before using it.
The Mabee-Simpson
Library Catalog
For the quiz you will search for a video and conduct a subject search in the Mabee-Simpson Library Catalog.
Video Search
When you are at the library's home page: library.lyon.edu, you can
click on the Books, video's, and DVD's link, then The Mabee-Simpson Library Catalog,
and you'll see this screen below.
Click the "Power Search."
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.
Subject search
Sometimes you will want to do a subject search to
narrow your topic. When you do that, click on the scroll bar
and select "Subject" and fill in the box with the example "Romance."
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WorldCat
For the quiz you will have to search for something in WorldCat.
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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.
Here's an example of a subject search for stitchery in Worldcat:
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Get to the library's homepage and click: Books,
Videos, and DVD's
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Then click WorldCAT
- Then change the box to subject and add "stitchery" and
search.
- The first one on the list is: Applique made easy.
The next thing to do is order it. Click on "See more
details for locating this item"
- Then scroll around until you find the link "Borrow this item
from another library (Interlibrary Loan)
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Once you're there, fill out the
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 per page for articles.
We'll call or email you when it comes in and you can pick it up
at the front desk. The book usually
has a loan period of a month, and the articles are yours to
keep.
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Interlibrary Loan
For your quiz know the three ways to
order from Interlibrary Loan. This is really important
once you start working with databases. There will
always be some great articles or books that we don't have
and that you decide you must have. Here's how to get
them:
You can order books or articles with
this form, simply fill in the information and click
submit. We'll call or email when the material
comes in and you can come by the front desk and pick it
up.
Books cost fifty cents each, and
articles cost five cents per page.
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As illustrated above, WorldCat has
an online form that can be used for books.
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Paper forms are at the front desk.
The front desk at the library has actual print forms
you can fill out and give to us. An easy thing
to do is to staple the print-out of the article or
book citation to the form.
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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. Here's how you get the
articles full text. 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.
- Link to Full Text is what I would click
if there weren't a html or pdf icon located below
the title. This link may connect you
to full text if we have it in any other database we own.
So there may a chance of finding this article in another
database by clicking on this 360 icon.
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Full-Text Electronic or Paper Journals
For your quiz be prepared to look up a journal
title.
Look at the homepage again, click on the journals link, and then click
on the link: Full-Text Electronic or Paper Journals.
I searched for "Wired" and came up with the following.
You can find articles in Wired from 1993 to now.
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Databases
Take a look at the Databases link found in the journal
articles link. 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:
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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,
video's and DVD's 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. Remember to copy and
paste your citation also.
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 15, 2007
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