Studio 7 APFM Library Information Session conducted by Melanie Parlette

1. LIBRARY RESOURCES MELANIE PARLETTE, BA, MLIS ENGINEERING & IT LIAISON LIBRARY RESOURCE CENTRE CONESTOGA COLLEGE

5. LIBRARY CATALOGUE Q: What can you find in the library catalogue? A: Anything that is physically housed in the library! Let’s take a look…

8. WHAT DO I SEARCH FOR? Facility Management Building Life Cycle Energy Efficiency Built Environment Security Risk Assessment Fire Protection Building Automation Systems Built Environment Emergency Procedures

9. SEARCHING A DATABASE. . .

10. SEARCHING A DATABASE. . . * (the asterisk wildcard) As the name implies, * can be substituted for any number of letters. This is particularly useful to include all words with a certain term and any suffix after it. Simply apply the asterisk to the end of a term and it will return all documents containing that term, followed by anything. For example: biostatistic* will find biostatistician or biostatistics or biostatistical

11. SEARCHING A DATABASE. . . Quotation Marks: " " Enclose specific phrases in quotation marks. This will direct the search engine to search the database for documents containing that exact phrase. A search for analytical chemist (without quotes) will return any document containing analytical and chemist with anything in between. If you place quotes around the phrase, searching for “facility management“ it will only documents with facility and management right beside each other.

12. WHAT IS GOOGLE SCHOLAR? A search interface for locating citations to academic research—and accessing the full-text online (sometimes). This is the definition of any research database. Google Scholar is just one more in a host of research tools similar to those offered by the library (but using it is free to all). Reading articles found in it is not free (not always, anyway).