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Library Seminar for TREN 3P19. Ethics, Equity, and Environmental Thought. Who am I?. Gabe Boldt Graduate of Brock in 2001. Honors in Political Science and History. M. Sc. Ed. From Niagara University Currently completing MLIS at Western
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Library Seminar for TREN 3P19 Ethics, Equity, and Environmental Thought
Who am I? • Gabe Boldt • Graduate of Brock in 2001. Honors in Political Science and History. • M. Sc. Ed. From Niagara University • Currently completing MLIS at Western • Co op student at James A. Gibson Library from September 2006 to April 2007.
Today’s objectives • Selecting a topic in Tourism and Environmental studies • Selecting Databases • Finding scholarly articles
Getting Help at the Library • Take a tour or workshop • As a librarian at the reference desk • Ask Marcie Jacklin! mjacklin@brocku.ca or ext 3960
Help on the library catalogue Researching a topic in environmental studies… How do I find journal articles?
Steps to finding journal articles • Start by building a list of key words. • Define your topic. Think of key words, phrases and subject headings and how to combine them… • Be careful! Don’t choose a topic that is too broad or too focused.
Choosing your topic • For example let’s use the current debates regarding public vs. private conservation of woodlands. • How could we find more information about our topic? • Let’s look at Finding Web Resources in the Brock catalogue…
What about finding e-journals about our topic? • Go to our list of databases and decide which database would be the best to use for our search. • What would be the key words we should search to find articles on our topic?
Topic Keywords • Woodlands • Private and/ or public • conservation
Can we refine our search to get better results? • Of course! • Let’s try public and • Private and • Conservation and • (woodland* or woodlot* or forest* or ecosystem*)
And now over to Marcie! Thanks for your attention!