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Navigating the Digital Library: A Roadmap for Effective Research and Resource Management

This guide from Trinity College provides a structured approach to navigating digital resources, designed to save time and enhance research effectiveness. It covers essential steps in the research journey: Searching, Choosing, Organizing, Presenting, and Evaluating resources. Learn how to effectively use search engines and educational sites, discover serendipitous findings, and evaluate the accuracy and reliability of information. With thoughtful organization and presentation strategies, you can improve your research outcomes and ensure timely access to valuable resources.

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Navigating the Digital Library: A Roadmap for Effective Research and Resource Management

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  1. Saving Time, Showing the Way Reducing The Traffic Jam...

  2. Finding a Way ….. with A Road Map P.L. Duffy Resource Centrehttp://www.students.trinity.wa.edu.au/library/default.htm Rosemary HortonTrinity College

  3. The Pile to a Catalogue; the Net to a Plan • We wouldn’t give them just a pile of books • We give them a catalogue • We need to save them some time

  4. Steps on a Journey • Searching • Choosing • Organising • Presenting • Evaluating

  5. Searching • Finding Sites • Search Engines • Education Sites • Reviews • Serendipity

  6. Searching : Search Engines • Search Engines • http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au//library/search.htm • Recommendations • Reading Help • Trying It Out Searching

  7. Searching: Education Sites • Recommendations • Exploring • Happenstance • Listservs • Teachers and Education.http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/teachers.htm Searching

  8. Searching: Reviews • Subject Journals/magazines • Subject Websites • Eg English Websiteshttp://library.trinity.wa.edu.au//teaching/engteaching.htm Searching

  9. Searching: Serendipity • Just Looking • Finding Something Else

  10. Evaluating Web Sites • http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au//library/study/evaluating.htm Choosing • Accuracy, • Authority, Reliability • Objectivity, • Currency • Coverage • Appropriate • Right Level

  11. Organising • Frontpage • Front Page Web Design • Structure • Navigation • Themes

  12. Folder View Folder View

  13. Navigation View Navigation View

  14. Edit View Editing View

  15. Presenting • Outline • Font Size • Pictures • Other Media

  16. Evaluating • Is it used? • How is it used? • How can you make it faster? • How can you make it easier to navigate? • How do you keep up-to-date?

  17. Conclusion Where do you go from here?

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