Digital library workshops in a nutshell

Digital Library Workshop(the Nutshell version)
Cindy Koman and Brenda Hazard
Faculty Workshop Day 2011

What you’ll learn…
Discover library subject guides
Evaluate web resources
Find fulltext fast
Save search results
Plan to attend a full workshop

Subject guides
Group together information for subjects
Unique and descriptive guide for each subject
Created by the HVCC librarians
Library liaison program
Subject Guides:What are they?

Where are they?

Assist students:
Lead students to databases, books and websites for subjects
Databases are subject specific
Books are newest material in the library
Websites have been evaluated by the librarian
Can create a jumping off places for students to begin their research
24/7 access
Assist faculty:
Excellent for online teaching
Can be added into BlackBoard using the external link feature
Why use them?

Digital Library Workshops in a Nutshell
A guide for our workshop!
Tabs for each topic of discussion
Basics of each guide
Introduction – library liaison
Articles/Journals
Books
Websites
Additional tabs
Ebooks, videos, RSS feeds, statistics, etc.
Let’s look at a few:

English Composition
Controversial Topics
Biography
Primary Sources
______________________________
Check out the guide for your subject area!
Special Interest Guides

What you’ll learn in the next 20 minutes…
Use the Library Journals List to determine if an article is available from the library
Find it in print
Find it in a database
Request it from interlibrary loan if not available
Find an article when searching a database
Find it as a PDF/HTML file
Find it if it is in another database
Request it from interlibrary loan if not available

I have a few article citations.Can I get the articles from the library?
“Do cell phones cause cancer?”
American Journal of Nursing; Sep 2010, Vol. 110 Issue 9; p14-15
“Obesity Summer Camp Makes Biotechnology Practical for High School Seniors”
Community College Week; 8/15/2005, Vol. 17 Issue 27, p16
“Biotechnology: a comprehensive training guide for the biotechnology industry.”
Sci-tech news; Nov2009, Vol. 63 Issue 4, p53

Use the Library Journals Listweb page

Finding Full-text FastPRINT Journals
Example of a journal in PRINT:
American Journal of Nursing
Print journals are located on the lower level of the library
Lift the display shelf to find additional issues

Finding Full-text FastELECTRONIC Journals
Example of an ELECTRONIC journal:
Community College Week
Click on one of the databases where this journal is available

Finding Full-text FastELECTRONIC JOURNALSIf not available, request through interlibrary loan

Finding full-text from within the results of research databases
Some databases ONLY include full-text. Those are easy!

Finding full-text from within the results of research databases
Most databases include full-text for only some articles and abstracts for others.

Articles may be available from within the database you are searching…

It’s easy: Just click the link for full text!

The article you seek isn’t in the database you are using…What next?
ASC nanotechnology
Academic Onefile
Homelessness and teenagers

The article you seek isn’t in the database you are using…What next?
Click this icon to see if the article is available fulltext in ANOTHER database. It often is!

Links directly to the article in another database…
The full-text from ProQuest Wall Street Journal was reached from Academic Search Complete

Only the abstract is available from Academic OneFile…
Click on the icon to Search for Article and…

Links directly to the article in another database…
The full-text from Science Direct was reached from Academic OneFile

Follow the link to “Check for Full Text” or “Search for article”!
These links make connections between the databases so the full text from one databases is seamlessly reached from the search results of another database!

When full-text is not available…

Request through Interlibrary Loan

Requests for articles through interlibrary loan
May arrive in as little as one business day (sometimes hours!)
Are delivered to your desktop through your ILL account
Are described in more detail in another workshop

Send students directly to a library resource within Blackboard

Library research databasesare the equivalent of“pay-per-view” or “premium channel” web resources

BAD NEWS:The URLs to library databases must be modified to include the proxy server

BAD NEWS:The URLs to library databases must be modified to include the proxy server
GOOD NEWS:There’s an app for that!

URL Generator
Converts URLs to proxied versions
Available from G:/library/hazard folder
Not perfect
In two flavors:
For general use (campus web pages, other external websites)
For Blackboard use

Since students have already logged into Blackboard, this URL allows the student to go directly to the database without another logon. Seamless access!

Customized search results
Options to save search results, automate searching on saved search strategy, receive alerts for tables of contents for selected journals
Available anytime, anywhere
Make effective use of your time in the library or online
Each system requires a separate account

Create a My EBSCOhost account

Save search strategy for alerts on a topic of interest
Locate articles on cell phones in the classroom:
(SU: cell phones
OR text messages)
AND
SU: classroom management
In either Academic Search Complete or Education Research Complete databases
Mead, M. N. (2008, Summer). Strong Signal for Cell Phone Effects. Photograph. Environmental Health Perspectives, 116(10), 424. Retrieved February 1, 2010 from Academic Search Complete database.

Save search alerts for journals available in print or online

What’s next? Email!
EBSCOhost Alert Notification
To:b.hazard@hvcc.eduSubject: Managing cell phones in the classroom (ASC and ERC)
The information below provides links to the 02/03/2010 10:50:33 PM Alert run for "SU ( cellular telephones or text messages ) and SU classroom management on 2010-02-01 12:30 PM" on the Education Research Complete, Academic Search Complete database with 2 hit(s). Following the links below will bring you to the start of the article or citation.
Alert Run Date: 02/03/2010 10:50:33 PMAlert Name: SU ( cellular telephones or text messages ) and SU classroom management on 2010-02-01 12:30 PMDatabase: Education Research Complete, Academic Search CompleteNumber of Hits: 2RSS Feed:http://rss.ebscohost.com/AlertSyndicationService/Syndication.asmx/GetFeed?guid=2306714
Record Results
1. Headteachers call for review of classroom ban on mobiles. Education (14637073), 10/16/2009, Issue 369, p5-5, 1/5p; (AN 44881645)http://proxy.hvcc.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=44881645&site=ehost-live
2. Mobile phones in the Classroom: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them. By: Scornavacca, Eusebio; Huff, Sid; Marshall, Stephen. Communications of the ACM, Apr2009, Vol. 52 Issue 4, p142-146, 5p, 1 chart, 1 diagram, 1 graph, 1 color; (AN 37295796)http://proxy.hvcc.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=37295796&site=ehost-live
E-mail Disclaimer: This e-mail was generated by EBSCOhost Research Databases for Brenda Hazard. Neither EBSCO nor the institution from which Brenda Hazard created this e-mail are responsible for the content of this e-mail.

Ask a librarian…
To determine which research database includes a journal either full-text online or indexed only
To form an effective search strategy for your research topic
To brainstorm how to use alerts with your students

Saving Citations
Save citations to a folder
Also copy and paste citations in a certain style from the databases to Word
Let’s see how it works!

Saving citations

Saving citations
Cut and paste citation into a Word document
Finder, A. (2007, November 20). Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns at Colleges. New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved from EBSCOhost..

Comparison of APA citation format across databases
Title: “Decline of the tenure track raises concerns at colleges”
Author: Alan Finder
Publication: New York Times
Date: November 20, 2007

Digital library workshops in a nutshell

by HVCClibrary

Accessibility

Upload Details

Usage Rights

1 Embed 20

Statistics

Digital library workshops in a nutshell Presentation Transcript