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Chapter Twenty-One Using the Library and the Internet

Chapter Twenty-One Using the Library and the Internet. College Writing Skills , 6E and College Writing Skills with Readings , 6E John Langan. Using the Library and the Internet. For most research topics, you need to master two basic tasks: 1) finding books on your topic, and

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Chapter Twenty-One Using the Library and the Internet

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  1. Chapter Twenty-OneUsing the Library and the Internet College Writing Skills, 6E and College Writing Skills with Readings, 6EJohn Langan

  2. Using the Library and the Internet • For most research topics, you need to master two basic tasks: • 1) finding books on your topic, and • 2) finding articleson your topic.

  3. Using the Library and the Internet • Two main avenues for finding books and articles are • 1) the library and • 2) the Internet.

  4. The Library • The heart of any libraryconsists of the following: • the main desk • the book stacks, and • the catalog of holdings.

  5. The Library • The main deskis usually located in a central spot. • In addition to checking out books there, you can usually also find information on the layout and services of the library.

  6. The Library Books, bound periodicals, and some other materials are kept in the library’sstacks. Some stacks are closed to students; in these cases, you need to fill out a form to request material.

  7. The Library The catalog of holdings is a list of all the materials available in the library. Formerly made up of cards in a set of drawers, catalogs today are usually computerized.

  8. The Library • You can use the catalog to look up a book in one of three ways: • 1) by author, • 2) by title, or • 3) by subject.

  9. The Library Here is a sample catalog entry: Author: Hersch, Patricia. Title: A tribe apart : a journey into the heart of American adolescence Edition: 1st ed. Description: 391 p. ; 25 cm. Published: New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1998. LC Subjects: Teenagers --United States.Location: GIBBSBORO Call Number: HQ796 .H43 1998 Circulation Data: Overdue as of 05/31/2000

  10. The Library • If you are researching a topic, you should do a subject search, which can provide • a list of books on a given topic, • related topics, and • more limited topics, if you need help narrowing yours.

  11. The Library To locate periodical articleson your topic, you need to search periodicals indexes such as the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature. Most of these are now available on CD-ROM or computerized database.

  12. The Library Here is a sample entry in a periodicals index: periodical subject author title Diet Cancer and Diet G. Cowley. il Newsweek 60-66 N 30 ‘98 “illustrated” page numbers date

  13. The Library As with a booksearch, if you are researching a topic, you should use the indexes to do a subject search first.

  14. The Library You can also use the periodicals indexesto look up a specific article by author or by title.

  15. The Library Once you have located the book(s) and periodical(s) you need, you can proceed to the stacks(or request the materials).

  16. The Internet The Internetis a giant network that connects computers at tens of thousands of institutions around the world. If you have a modem and a subscription to an Internet service provider, you have vast amounts of information literally at your fingertips.

  17. The Internet Yourlibraries -- school and/or public -- might well be online, in which case their catalogs and possibly computerized databases (including periodicals indexes) might be available online.

  18. The Internet • If not, many large research libraries, public and private, offer limited access to their catalogs and databases. Try these: • www.columbia.edu (Columbia University) • www.loc.gov (Library of Congress) • www.nypl.org (New York Public Library)

  19. The Internet Major online booksellers such as www.amazon.com are easy to search and offer information on a vast number of books, both in- and out-of-print.

  20. The Internet Just as in the case of library catalogs and indexes, the Internet also allows you to research a topic by subject. Search directories, which organize websites by categories, can be invaluable in such searches. One of the best known is

  21. The Internet Search engines(Yahoo! [www.yahoo.com], AltaVista [www.altavista.com], and many others) will find websites that relate to your topic. The key to useful searches is the search terms you use. Use“quotation marks” and +plus- and -minus-signs to limit the number of “hits” your search yields.

  22. The Internet For example, if you want to know something about someone named “Robert Lee” (not the U.S. President), you might type in +Robert Lee -“Robert E. Lee” This would eliminate many of the sites that discuss the President.

  23. The Internet WARNING: You must take extra care to EVALUATEweb- sites you intend to use for research. Unlike traditional publishing, the Internet has virtually no safeguards in place to keep dishonest and/or incompetent people from publishing their work.

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