This document discusses different methods for finding and accessing information from libraries and online. It covers using library databases, the flow of information through different media like TV, newspapers and journals over time, and various search techniques like keyword searching, subject searching, using connectors like AND and OR, and truncation to broaden searches. The learning objectives are to understand how to use library databases and different search strategies.

1. HOW DO YOU FIND &
ACCESS INFORMATION?
LIBR 250
Week 4
Jayati Chaudhuri

2.  Using library databases to find and access
information
 Flow of information
 Different search techniques
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

3. Great place to start, Information not always reviewed
Some free; some fee
Library & the Internet
Not permanent, good for current information
LIBRARY & THE WEB

4. Report of Event
TV, Internet
Newspapers
Magazines
Trade Publications
Journals
Books
Time Frame
Seconds/Minutes
Day/Days
Week/Weeks
Weeks/Months
6 months/years
2 + years
FLOW OF INFORMATION
Where to access
information
TV News
Newspaper indexes, databases
Databases
Databases
Databases
Library Catalog

5.  A keyword search looks for specific keywords in all
fields in a record and is when you would like to look
for a word or a combination of words
simultaneously.
KEYWORD SEARCH

6.  Need to use the exact subject headings
 Less flexible
 Effective way to narrow search & results will be
relevant
SUBJECT SEARCHING VS KEYWORD
SEARCHING

7.  AND
 OR
 NOT
CONNECTORS

8.  Broadens your search
 Symbols used vary from database to database
 ?
 *
 (wom?n) retrieves:
 woman, women
 (politic*) retrieves:
politic, politics, political, politician, politicians, etc
TRUNCATION

9. TERMS & CONNECTORS