the literature search - a workshop for librarians

The Literature

Search

Aurelie Gandour

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London

Write either:– The main thing you’d like to

learn from the session;

– Or a concern or pressing question you have.

Look at the card you now have.

If you agree with what’s written on it, or have the same question, place a tick on the right side.

Keywords

Activity…

• Come up with a search topic

Tip: try and think of questions from students that have come up in the past.

Make your topic slightly complex (it should contain at least 3 different concepts).

• Write your topic at the top of a sheet of paper.

Activity…

• Exchange topics with the other groups!

• Read your new topic.

Analyse the concepts its made of and come up with as many possible keywords for each of them as you possibly can.

Activity…

• Give your topic to another group!

… and have a look at another group’s topic.

• What do you think of the concepts and keywords that they came up with?

Can you come up with more?

Your search friends: Boolean Operators

Boolean Operators: an exercise

We’re all

Jedi or Sith

A New

Static

Induction

Thyristor

(SITh)

Analytical

Model

Who Wins:

Yoda or

Sith? A

Proof that

Financial

Markets are

Seldom

Efficient

“Only a Sith

Thinks Like

That”:

Llewellyn’s

“Duelling

Cannons”, 1

to 7

Cryogenic

operation of

static

induction

(SIT/SITh)

devices

Switching

performanc

es of SITh

with buried-

gate

structure

Sith NOT Induction

Boolean Operators: an exercise

We’re all

Jedi or Sith

Who Wins:

Yoda or

Sith? A

Proof that

Financial

Markets are

Seldom

Efficient

“Only a Sith

Thinks Like

That”:

Llewellyn’s

“Duelling

Cannons”, 1

to 7

Switching

performanc

es of SITh

with buried-

gate

structure

Sith NOT Induction

From Death

Rays to

Light

Sabers:

Making

Laser

Weapons

Surgically

Precise

High-risk

Lead

Extraction:

The Blade

and the

Lightsaber

Making a

light-saber:

a story

The

butcher, the

baker, the

light saber

maker

Squirrel

lightsaber: a

species

neutralizing

rattlesnake

venom

LightsaberOR

Light Saber

Boolean Operators: an exercise

High-risk

Lead

Extraction:

The Blade

and the

Lightsaber

The

butcher, the

baker, the

light saber

maker

Squirrel

lightsaber: a

species

neutralizing

rattlesnake

venom

LightsaberOR

Light Saber

Boolean Operators: an exercise

The Science

of Star

Wars:

integrating

technology

Using Star

Wars’

supporting

characters

to teach

about

psychopa-

thology

The

Adoption of

Buddhist

Motifs in

Star Wars

The boycott

of Star Wars

by

academic

scientists

Discursive

Choices:

Boycotting

Star Wars

between

Science and

Politics

Star Wars AND Science

The

butcher, the

baker, the

lightsaber

maker

Boolean Operators: an exercise

The Science

of Star

Wars:

integrating

technology

Discursive

Choices:

Boycotting

Star Wars

between

Science and

Politics

Star Wars AND Science

Boolean Operators: an exercise

The Science

of Star

Wars:

integrating

technology

Discursive

Choices:

Boycotting

Star Wars

between

Science and

Politics

Star Wars AND Science

Boolean Operators: an exercise

The boycott

of Star Wars

by

academic

scientists

Quotation marks

Truncation

Wildcard

• Get in pairs

• Draw a set of 3 resources

• Try and figure out if youcan use those threetools in each database

Fields

• Get in pairs

• Use the same 3 resources as in the last activity

• Look up each resource: can you use fields in them?

• For each resource, note the 5 most usefulfields you could recommend to students

Limiters

• Get in pairs

• Use the same 3 resources as in the last activity

• Look up each resource: can you use limiters in them?

• For each resource, note the 5 most usefullimiters you could recommend to students

Thesaurus

• Pick a database and suggestedkeywords

• Access the database’s thesaurus

• Draw a « family tree » for one of the suggested keywords, includingbroader terms, narrowers terms, and related terms.

Break!

Guided Search

Search Equation Puzzle

Keyword

Title

Author

Subject

term

Create search equations based

on this topic…

Have a look at your 3 databases.

Could you write this kind of complex search equation in one of them?

Where? How?

What does a user’s question

look like?

Examples:

• How to get children to help each other in kindergarten?

• Family office vs. private banking in Luxembourg

• EU’s charter of fundamental rights and is influence on tax law

• Get in groups

• Associate differenttypes of users withdifferent types of results.

>> Which type of resultswould you recommend for which type of users?

Which Resource for Which User?

• Get in groups

• In the table, write down 5 different subject matters

• Associate different types of users withdifferent types of resources.

>> Which type of resources would you use to help which type of users?

• Get in pairs

• Decide who will be the « student » and who willbe the « librarian »

• Students, look up what’s on your card…

• Librarians, try and answer their question!

• Go!

Break!

The needs of a thorough search…

Federated searches…

An iterative process…

Following the thread

Activity: Action Plan

Topic suggestion:

“Students dropping out of school, the relationship between schools and families, and how parents of foreign origin are perceived.”

Deadline: the search needs to be completed before 1/07/2016

Advanced functions of databases

• Get in pairs.

• Go through at least 5 databases and check if they offer the following advanced functions:

– Search history

– Saving searches

– Saving results

– Creating email alerts

– Generating RSS feeds

Questionnaire

Thank you for coming!

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