lesson 7: using books for research, part i
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Using Books for Research I
Week 7
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This week we will learn how to:
Find a BOOK
• Use the ONLINE CATALOG
• FIND the book on the shelf
• ACCESS an eBook
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Cycle of Information
Turn on the
News
Newspapers
Magazines
Scholarly
Journals
Event Happens
Books BOOKS
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WHY do I want to find a book?#4 - Background info
#3 - Facts and statistics
#2 -In-depth info on a
person or topic
#1 -Not everything ison the INTERNET!!!
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HOW do I find a book?
Start with
Gumberg Library’s
Online Catalog,
which is called….
DuCAT!
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Library Homepage
http://www.duq.edu/library
# 1
# 2
Access DuCat
BASICSEARCH
ADVANCED SEARCH
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Basic Search
You may search for BOOKS by:Keyword
Author
Title
Subject
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Guided Search
Combine search term types and/or add limits
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Search TermsAnd
Boolean OperatorsIn
DuCat
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My Course Topic...
GENERAL TOPIC:
Diversity in higher education
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Keywords and Alternate Terms
Diversity• Multiculturalism• Minorities• Race• Gender• Ethnic background• Religion
Higher Education
• College• Colleges• University• Universities
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If I do a search for...
DIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION
91
titles
AND
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If I do a search in DuCat for...
DIVERSITY MULTICULTURALISM
titles 2, 547
OR
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If I do a DuCat search for...
(DIVERSITY OR MULTICULTURALISM)
AND HIGHER EDUCATION
I would get… 107 titles
NESTED SEARCH: Combining OR and AND searches
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Truncation
• Way to search for variations on a search term using the base
• DuCat uses $
• College$– college– colleges
• Universit$– university– universities
• Multicultural$– multicultural– multiculturalism
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Nested Search w/ Truncation
(divers$ OR multicultural$) AND
higher education
How many results do you get?
164