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Starting Your Research

Starting Your Research. Fiber Art & Fabric Design Library Instruction Spring 2004 Mary Woodley m ary.woodley@csun.edu 818-677-6302. What is the assignment?. Paper, Presentation, Annotated Bibliography? Due date – when is the last date for ILL? Citation Style? APA? MLA? Chicago?

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Starting Your Research

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  1. Starting Your Research Fiber Art & Fabric Design Library Instruction Spring 2004 Mary Woodley mary.woodley@csun.edu 818-677-6302

  2. What is the assignment? • Paper, Presentation, Annotated Bibliography? • Due date – when is the last date for ILL? • Citation Style? APA? MLA? Chicago? • Types of publications?

  3. Searching Tips • Journal • Titles: Look in Online Catalog to see if we own • Subject access: very broad subject headings • Book • Titles: Look in online Catalog to see if we own • Subject access: general terms that describe the book as a whole • Articles • Titles: Look in indexes and full-text databases to find titles of articles • Subjects: specific for the article

  4. Choosing keywords to search If one keyword does not work, try variations on the keyword Fabrics, textile fabrics, cotton fabrics Textiles Synthetic fibers Acrylic fibers, nylon, rayon If too many titles are returned, try searching more specific keywords

  5. Key Words Controlled Vocabulary

  6. Basic Search Strategies: Words to Search by • Jargon • Keyword • Controlled vocabulary – Subject words/phrases

  7. Basic Search Strategies: Putting concepts together Boolean operator and Cotton fabrics Dyeing Venn diagrams serve as a visual expression of the Boolean operations

  8. Basic Search Strategies: Putting concepts together Boolean operator or Resist-Dyed Fabrics Batik Ikat

  9. Basic Search Strategies: Putting concepts together Boolean operator not and Dyes and Dyeing Cotton Fabrics not Tie-Dyeing

  10. Truncation • Symbol used at the end of a word to retrieve variant endings of that word. • Allows you to search the "root" form of a word with all its different endings. • Broadens or increases search results. Truncation = OR • Example: teen* retrieves teen OR teens OR teenager OR teenagers • However: cat* retrieves cat, cats, but also cataclysm, catacomb, catalepsy, catalog, etc. • Use OR instead to maintain meaning: cat or cats

  11. Wildcards • Some databases allow for wildcards to be embedded within a word to replace a single character. For example: • comp???tion retrieves composition, competition, computation, etc. • wom?n retrieves woman, women

  12. Need a book? 1. Search the Library's online catalog. Try searching using the keyword search. 2. Write down the floor location of the book and the call number where the book will be found on the shelf

  13. How Call Numbers Work

  14. Need an article? • Popular magazines • Trade publications • Scholarly publications All three may be available in print or online or both

  15. Types of Periodicals:Scholarly Journals • Articles must go through a peer-review or refereed process. Scholarly/academic articles that are read by academic or scholar "referees" for advice and evaluation of content when submitted for publication. Referees recommend to the editor/editorial board whether the article should be published as is, revised, or rejected. Also sometimes know as "peer-reviewed" articles. • Articles are usually reports on scholarly research. • Articles use jargon of the discipline.

  16. Popular Magazines and Newpapers • Authors are magazine staff members or free lance writers. • Authors often mention sources, but rarely formally cite them in bibliographies. • Individual issues contain numerous advertisements. • There is no peer review process. • Articles are meant to inform and entertain. • Illustrations may be numerous and colorful. • Language is geared to the general adult audience (no specialized knowledge of jargon needed).

  17. Evaluating Internet Resources World Wide Web sites come in many sizes and styles. How do you distinguish a sitethat gives reliable informationfrom one that gives incorrectinformation? Below are some guidelines to help.

  18. Internet Resources vs. Surfing the Web • Internet Resources include: • Internet accessible databases and journals • Use a Web interface • Usually require subscription • Exception: ERIC Wizard • Equivalent to print indexes and journals • Authoritative and reliable • Surfing the Web: • Use free search engines • E.G.: Yahoo, Google, HotBot • Critical evaluation required • Anyone can put up a Web page! • Evaluating Web pages (http://library.csun.edu/mwoodley/Webeval.html)

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