4. What you can expect from HML
• Knowledgeable degreed librarians on
duty over 60 hours per week
• Friendly faces ready to help 101.5 hours
per week
• Access to the resources you need both
on and off campus
• Resources available in a timely manner
6. + even more!
• 250+ Databases
• 570+ print periodical
subscriptions
• Thousands of online journals
• Juvenile collection
• Audiovisuals – physical and
streaming
7. • “I could see why Archimedes
got all excited. There was
nothing finer than the feeling
that came rushing through
you when it clicked and you
suddenly understood
something that had puzzled
you.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
10. Make friends with the library staff!
Interactions
with
Librarians
Engagement
Persistence
11. Librarians and support staff
http://www-new.onu.edu/academics/heterick_memorial_library/staf
Professor
Baril
Professor
Donley
Ms Kobiela
Professor
Moritz
12. College computers are not filtered and
other IT stuff
• User Documentation
• Support services
– Helpdesk
– Phone: 419-772-1111
– Fax: 419-772-3101
– E-mail: help-desk@onu.edu
– Submit Work Order: Work Order Submission
– The help desk is staffed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday -
Friday (excluding holidays) when classes are in session.
• Network drives
13. 1-2-1 Personal Research Consultations
Need a little extra help with your research?
Finding plenty of resources, but not exactly
what you are looking for?
Has it been suggested by instructor to meet
with a librarian?
An in-depth research consultation with the
librarian of your choice is available by
appointment.
Sessions may run for 30-60 minutes and are
designed to assist students with finding and
evaluating resources
Schedule an appointment by visiting
http://libguides.onu.edu/aecontent.php?pid=199190&sid=2118629
14. ONU card = Library ID
Remember
to always
use all 11
digits!
15. How the library works
• Due dates
• Renewals
• Fines: accruing, paying
• Renewing materials
16. We have a great number of resources
both in print and electronically available
• Catalogs
• Databases [pay to play]
• Course reserves
17. You have resources available beyond
these walls
• Taggert
• OhioLINK
• Search Ohio
• ILL
• Google books and other electronic
book providers
18. It is essential for you to not just use
Google for research
• This isn’t about punishment but because
– Most faculty will tell you upfront not to
use it or Wikipedia or limit the number of
times you can
– Most students do not know how to use
Google effectively/efficiently
– Visible v. Invisible web
– Most students when using a search
engine settle for “good enough” instead
of the right stuff ~ SATISFICE
19. More important stuff you need to know
• Log-in, network computers
• Drives
• Printing
• Copying
• Scanning
• Office supplies
• Wireless accessibility
20. You need to know what they expect you
to use
• Reference works
– Oxford Reference + Oxford Scholarship
• Books
– Print and eBooks
• Periodicals
– Popular, v Scholarly
v Peer-Reviewed or Refereed
• Websites
22. Research Ethics
• A citation is how you indicate where your information came from.
• There are four citation styles that are in frequent use at the
college level. They are:
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• APA (American Psychological Association)
• CMS (Chicago Manual of Style)
• Turabian (Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers,
Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., 1996 )
• Each style has a way to do in-text citations, a way to do a
bibliography, and a way to do footnotes and endnotes.
• Always confirm with each instructor the style required.
• You need to learn how to do citations, etc., but there is a citation
software management tool available to all ONU students, faculty
and staff…
What is a citation?
23. Research Tools
• Catalogs – for locating books,
maps, musical scores, govt.
documents, etc.
• Databases – usually for locating
periodical and newspaper
articles, but may cover other
materials as well
24. CATALOGS
• POLAR -- Accessing items located
at HML (physical and electronic) as
well as Law Library
• OhioLINK -- Next Step if you can’t
find what you want in the HML
collection
• ILL -- option of last resort
25. • Heterick Memorial
Library
• Undergraduate
Library, accessible
to all
•Taggert Law
Library
•Library for Law
school, accessible
to all
Libraries at ONU
26. ONU card = Library ID
Remember
to always
use all 11
digits!
30. 1. Keyword Search
•Looks in several locations (usually subject,
article title, abstracts or contents)
•Does not require an exact match
•Generates comparatively large number of hits
(not precise)
•Good if you are not familiar with terminology
Find a Book -- POLAR
34. • Materials owned by all Ohio colleges,
universities, several public libraries
• Link from POLAR permits you to submit
requests
• Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
• No charge
• Only 25 requests at a time
• May keep up to 84 days
Find a Book -- OhioLINK
37. Find a book -- OhioLINK
First and Last name
exactly as it appears
on university ID +
barcode is all 11
digits of your ID
38. SearchOhio
• Access to several Ohio public libraries
• Access via OhioLINK
• An option when item wanted is not
available at ONU or through OhioLINK
39. Find a Book -- OhioLINK
If you can’t get
what you want
from Heterick,
OhioLINK or
SearchOhio,
then request via
40. You can cut and paste
from most any
source, so just fill in all
the lines you can.
ISSN is the unique
number every
periodical is assigned
so it’s great if you can
include that in your
request. Be sure to
only use the print
ISSN, not the on-line
ISSN.
InterLibrary Loan
41. You need to learn how to create and
employ a research strategy
• SEARCH ~ discovery layer
42. You need to learn how to effectively
access and utilize these databases
45. What’s next? Citing your resources
ALA
The Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association describes the rules
used to write papers following APA style. This
style is used in psychology, sociology, business,
economics, nursing, social work, and criminology.
MLA
Modern Language Association documentation
guidelines are often used in the humanities fields,
including English, comparative literature, literary
criticism, and foreign-languages.
Turabian/Chicago
Chicago style is a documentation style used in
history and other humanities fields and uses
footnotes or endnotes.
46. Managing resources found
• Heterick Memorial Library and Ohio
Northern University provide access to
RefWorks, a citation management
and formatting software package.
50. How to find stuff
• Classification systems
– DVDs
– CDs
– Course reserves
• Library tour
51. Survival Skills
• Get to know the librarians
• TIME MANAGEMENT
• Research is a process not an event
• Go beyond Google
• Use the resources the professors expect
you to use
• Know the difference between sources and
how to evaluate them for relevancy and
scholarship
• Know how to cite and avoid plagiarism
• Practice makes perfect
