Penguins, Polar Bears, People & Politics

Library Orientation Session

#2 Finding Books…• By Author or Subject

• Select field• Last Name, First Name

• Start with http://blais.claremont.edu – Local Catalog

• Not there? Send search to LINK+– Meta-catalog– Arrives Honnold 2-3 days after request

– 3 week checkout, 2 week renewal– Stiff fines $1/day, no grace period

#2 Finding Books…

• Related Items…– Use subject headings in record

• e.g. Shackleton Ernest Henry Sir 1874 1922 -- Travel -- Antarctica

– Subject Headings: easiest way around the catalog

• http://worldcat.org – Worlds largest library catalog– You can use ILL, but expect a wait

WORD--words ANDed (googlesquebut sorted alphabetically vs relevance)

Start here

SUBJECT (phrase)

TITLE (phrase, but TOC too)

Finding Books Summary

From narrow to broad

#3 Image credits#3 Image credits

• http://bit.ly/citingCC

• http://search.creativecommons.org/

#3 Journal Articles#3 Journal Articles• Try Sherlock http://libraries.claremont.edu

or Google Scholar

• Hundreds of article search tools listed by subject and title

Get the item…Get the item…

• In Sherlock: Full text available (Get It)• To check for Fulltext

• To check Blais for local print holdings

• To order a pdf from Document Delivery/ILL

Citing ArticlesCiting ArticlesFrom Get this item:

Steele, W K (08/2005). "Stable isotope ratios of Antarctic petrel ( Thalassoica antarctica ) and snow petrel ( Pagodroma nivea ) bone collagen". Polar biology (0722-4060), 28 (9), p. 672.

• List authors in order presented in the paper.• Year of publication.• Article title.• Journal title [Full or Abbreviated – Be consistent]• Volume• (Issue): [if available]• Pagination [Start page – End page]

Citing articles (2)Citing articles (2)Corrected:

Steele, WK. 2005. Stable isotope ratios of Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica antarctica) and snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) bone collagen. Polar biology 28(9):672-679.

Finding an article from a citation Finding an article from a citation in another paperin another paper

The diets of five summer breeding seabirds in Adelie Land, Antarctica

#3 Finding an article from a #3 Finding an article from a citation in another papercitation in another paper

• Sometimes html versions have links

• But you’ll also often need to try Sherlock or Google Scholar

#4 Phrase searching#4 Phrase searching

• Use quotes to find phrases

#5 Finding a book in the library#5 Finding a book in the libraryCheck blais for location and availability

http://bit.ly/honbookloc

#5 Citing a book#5 Citing a book

• Author(s). Year. “Book title.” Place of Publication, Publisher.

• Perry, Richard. 1973. “The Polar Worlds.” New York, Taplinger.