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Library ethnography
1.
2. WHAT IS LIBRARY ETHNOGRAPHY?
• Ethnography- A descriptive work (paper, journal
entry, scholarly article, RESEARCH PAPER etc.)
produced from researching a particular field of
interest.
• For the purpose of this power point, we will
discuss how to get started with the process by
finding text to derive information from.
3. SITUATION
You are in class and you are notified of a research
project (sound familiar?). And your professor says
“No online assistance. Go to Ingram to track down
sources for your topic.”
4. DECISIONS , DECISIONS
Before you panic and
hyperventilate. You
HAVE OPTIONS! :
You can:
• A) Panic!
• B) Cry and pitch a fit .
• C) Ask for help!
• D)Don’t do the
project.
• What do you choose?
5. ANSWER
If you picked A,B, or D, then you need to pay
attention to this presentation.
If you picked C, You may still want to pay attention.
6. HOW DO I FIND BOOKS?
That isn’t hard as it seems you can use Galileo
(libraries have their own version) that allows to look
up books and find their Decimal Number.
You can the librarian for Assistance. Which can useful.
You can get help from a friend which is key for late
nights.
7. DEWEY DECIMAL
As complicated as it may seem, the system really
isn’t. For us at least.
It’s really simple because for the most part its
categorized by genre, author or in some cases
book name.
It ranges from 100-900 in most university libraries
because of the large amount of majors and
nuances in research.
8. DEWEY’S CLASSES
100 – Philosophy and psychology
200 – Religion
300 – Social sciences
400 – Language
500 – Science
600 – Technology
700 – Arts
800 – Literature
900 – History, geography & biography
10. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
The Dewey Decimal is very exact and really isn’t
supposed to be tampered with after everything.
Once the system is complete, books shouldn’t
be changed at all. Doing so means you may have
to categorize every book in the library again!
11. NEXT!
Once you find the area of the
book, now you have to
figure out where on the
shelf it is.
At this point you can look for
the title and find it or if you
wrote the decimal down and
figure it out that way.
The books maybe out of order
so looking for the title is
best.
12.
13. I HAVE THE BOOK. NOW WHAT?
Now that you found the
book(s) you
needed, you can sit
down and properly
take information out
of it. Keep in mind to
cite your sources!
OR you may check it out
do it elsewhere.
