ECCS Orientation 2015

1. ECCS ORIENTATION
Kelly Kobiela, Systems Librarian
Heterick Memorial Library

2. WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY
• Kathleen Baril, k-baril@onu.edu
• Heather Crozier, h-crozier@onu.edu
• Jenny Donley, j-donley.1@onu.edu
• Kelly Kobiela, k-kobiela@onu.edu
• Reference Email, reference@onu.edu
Librarians on duty:
Monday – Friday
8:00 AM - 12PM, 1PM – 4:30 PM
Monday – Thursday
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

3. PERSONAL LIBRARIAN PROGRAM
• Kathleen Baril
• Chemistry, Education, Mathematics and Statistics,
Mechanical Engineering, Modern Languages,
Pharmacy, and Physics
• Heather Crozier
• Biological & Allied Sciences, Business, History and
Political Science, and Nursing
• Jenny Donley
• Art, Communication & Media Studies, English,
English Language Program, Human Performance
and Sport Sciences, Philosophy, and Religion
• Kelly Kobiela
• Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer
Engineering and Computer Science, Music,
Psychology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice,
Theatre Arts, and Technological Studies
• Sarah Crawford
• Undeclared majors

4. LIBRARIES AT ONU
 Heterick Memorial Library
 Undergraduate library and
accessible to all students
 Taggart Law Library
 Library for law school and
accessible to all students

5. WHAT THE LIBRARY OFFERS:
 ~400,000 items in POLAR, the ONU library catalog
 ~20,000,000 items in OhioLink
 260 Databases
 400+ print periodicals
 Tens of thousands of electronic journal titles
 Juvenile, Young Adult, and Graphic Novel
collections
 DVDs, CDs, streaming audiovisuals, and streaming
music

6. CATALOGS – BOOKS AND MEDIA
 POLAR Catalog – Search for physical and electronic items
(ebooks and ejournals) that are available from Heterick
Memorial Library and Taggart Law Library

7. FIND A BOOK – POLAR: KEYWORD SEARCH
 Looks in several locations
 Subject
 Article title
 Abstracts
 Table of contents
 Does not require an exact match
 Generates comparatively large number of hits
 Good if you are not familiar with terminology
 Good for a beginning search

8. FIND A BOOK – POLAR: SUBJECT SEARCH
 Looks at the subject headings in the records
 Requires an exact match
 Provides a results list with related headings to use
for broader and narrower searches
 Generates comparatively smaller number of hits
 Good if you are familiar with terminology
 Good for a next step after a keyword search

9. CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

10. CATALOG – KEYWORD TO SUBJECT

11. POLAR – RESULTS
ebook
Law Library
Heterick Library

12. CHECKING OUT ITEMS
 Checkout and due dates
 Book check out is for 21 days
 DVD check out is for 7 days
 Renewals
 Up to 6 renewals, provided no one else has put a hold
on the item
 Fines
 $.10 - $1.00, depending on how overdue and what type
of item
 Can be paid at the circulation desk
 My Library Account

13. POLAR – MY LIBRARY ACCOUNT

14. ONU ID CARD = LIBRARY ID CARD
 Use the entire 11 digit number to login

15. FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK
 Materials owned by 121 other libraries in Ohio:
colleges, universities, public libraries
 Can submit request for an item to be delivered to
Heterick Memorial Library
 Most requests arrive in 2-3 working days
 No charge to request items (unless they become
overdue)
 Maximum of 25 requests at a time
 Items can usually be renewed

16. FIND A BOOK – OHIOLINK
 From POLAR results list:
 Button will recreate the POLAR search in OhioLINK
 From an item record:
 Button will go directly to the same item
 Use if the copy in POLAR is checked out
 Direct link to the OhioLINK catalog:
 http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search

17. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES
 What is the basic definition of a library database?
 A library database is an electronic (online) catalog or index
 Library databases contain information about published items
 Library databases are searchable
 The library subscribes to many databases so the ONU community has
access to these resources. When you’re searching a database, you
are not searching “the web.”
 What types of items are indexed by library databases?
 Articles in Journals/Magazines/Newspapers
 Reference Information (i.e. entries from Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,
etc.)
 Books & other documents
Source: http://web.calstatela.edu/library/whatisadatabase.htm

18. WEB RESEARCH VS. LIBRARY DATABASES
Internet
 Material from numerous
sources, individuals,
government, etc.
 Search engines must work
with material prepared
without regard for specific
software
 Quality of material varies
 Generally do not access for-
profit information
 Content often anonymous
and undated
Databases
 Usually created by a single
publisher
 Content pre-arranged for
easy searching
 Quality-controlled by editorial
staff
 Most are available only to
subscribers
 Sources are usually identified
and dated
 Databases often focus on a
specific subject or discipline,
but some cover several areas

19. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES

20. FIND ARTICLES – DATABASES
 General Databases
 Academic Search
Complete
 Business Source
Complete
 JSTOR
 Lexis-Nexis
 MasterFILE Premier
 MEDLINE with Full
Text
 Databases by Subject

21. FIND ARTICLES – ENGINEERING DATABASES

22. DATABASES
ENGINEERING VILLAGE, COMPENDEX
 Quick Reference Guide

23. DATABASES
ENGINEERING VILLAGE, COMPENDEX
 Engineering Village is an index-only database
 There is no full-text available
 Abstracts are available
 Everything has a button that connects to the ONU
Journal Finder
 Not everything will actually have full text
 When in doubt, email the citation to ill@onu.edu

24. FIND IT @ ONU
 Find It @ ONU takes you from a database where
you don’t have full text access to a database where
you do have full text access

25. ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE
A great general database to start your research. Use limiters to narrow
your search.

26. ARTICLES – FULL TEXT

27. PATENTS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS
 Special types of documents
 Not necessarily indexed in a database
 Harder to find
 Electrical Engineering Guide
 Derwent Innovations Index
 Google Patent Search
 Governmental webpages

28. SEARCH

29. WHAT IS INCLUDED?
 POLAR
 Article-level searching for all EBSCO databases
 Article-level searching for a variety of other
databases: JSTOR, Hoover’s, AccessPharmacy,
etc.
 Title-level searching for most other databases:
IEEE, CIAO, Proquest Nursing & Allied Health
 OhioLINK Central Catalog

30. RESULTS: FULL TEXT, POLAR

31. RESULTS: OHIOLINK

32. RESULTS: FIND IT @ ONU

33. RESULTS: ILL
 When in doubt, email: ill@onu.edu

34. FACETS: LIMIT YOUR RESULTS

35. CITING YOUR SOURCES –
PLAGIARISM: DON’T DO IT

36. CITING YOUR SOURCES
 APA
 The Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association
 Psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing,
social work, criminology
 MLA
 Modern Language Association
 English, comparative literature, literary criticism, foreign
languages
 Chicago Manual
 History, humanities
 IEEE citation guide

37. SURVIVAL SKILLS
 Get to know the librarians
 Time management
 Research is a process, not an event
 Go beyond Google and Wikipedia
 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
 Practices makes perfect
 What you learn in one class can be used in other
classes