Research Strategy: The Library Catalog

English 216A Research and Information Literacy Week 3:

By Michael Kahn, Library Commons LibrarianBased on a PowerPoint created by Professor Susan Acampora, The College of New Rochelle, Gill Library

Objectives

Understand what a library catalog is Be able to perform basic and

advanced searches in the CNR Encore library catalog for books and articles

By able to access eBooks Be able to use the Interlibrary Loan

system

Gill Library Catalog Discovery Platform - ENCORE The power of a Google-like search engine

integrated into the Library Catalog

Single search results from multiple Library sources

Integration of articles, books, eBooks, digital collections from the Library

Refinement and organization of search results such as by location, format, availability

Separate tabs for books and articles

Library Catalog – Discovery

Let’s Search for Books today by keyword and subject terms

Encore provides two tabs

CATALOG FOR BOOKS ARTICLES FOR ARTICLES!

Catalog Results can be refined by……

Location Format Availability Found In Publish Date Related

Search

Other Search Refinement Refine By Location

Refine by Format

Refine by Availability

Refine by Found In

Refine by Publish Date

Related Search

Related Search provides a list of relevant Subject Headings

Keyword v. Subject Heading

What do you think of when you hear the

wordROCK ?

Rock music physical

rockrock back and forth

Example taken from Badke Chapter 3 page 61

Rock is an example of a keyword. It can mean many different things. When you search using a keyword you will get different types of results.

2 of the Results from Encore for Rock!

Refine by Related Searches

Subject TermsEstablished Terms The subjects and names in this list might help you find more of what you're looking for. These terms were chosen by librarians to ensure consistency in organizing library materials. For example, if you search for works about couches, you might not find all the relevant resources. Library catalogers chose the word "sofas" to uniformly represent all related terms, such as "couches", "divans", and "davenports." Click one of the listed subjects or names to search using the Library's authoritative classification terms. ▪ Art therapy for children▪ Additional Suggestions

Keyword Searches

Common everyday language The default search of Google and

other search engines Will bring back higher number of

resultsBut many may not be relevant Finds wherever the word occurs

within the catalog book record

Subject Headings

Long list of terminology by which most topics in the world would be identified

Listed in alphabetical order Created and updated by the Library

of Congress

Subject Heading Examples Dogs-dogs Sunflowers-sunflowers Aged-aged Television faith healers-healers in

mass media Death penalty-capital punishment

Subject Search Results

If you get too many unrelated results using a default keyword search try:

Advanced Searching by Subject

Keyword Search Results

The Bibliographic Record

Determining Subject Headings Library of Congress website Subject

Heading http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html

Or

Do a keyword search and look at bibliographic records for subject

headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Reading the Bibliographic Record See Reading the Bibliographic

Record Handout

Choosing the Best Keywords for your Research Question Look up Subject Heading on your

own

Do a keyword search and look at the bibliographic records to determine the Subject Headings.

Other Advanced Search Options

KeywordTitleSubjectAuthorFormat

LanguageLocationYear

Lab Do a keyword search in Encore for books relevant to your

research question. Record the titles and authors.

Identify the best subject heading relevant to your topic (use the Library of Congress Subject Heading list or find it through an Encore keyword search)

Do a Subject Search in Encore for 3 books relevant to your research question.

Record the titles and authors.

Report back to classWhat was your research question?What keywords did you use? What subject heading did you use?What books (title and author) did you find? Which was easier to perform? The keyword or subject search?

Lab

Search for domestic violence prevention.

How many results do you get? Look at the second result. What is the title? Who is the author? Read the video’s summary. Is this

video relevant to your research question?

Lab

Read the title and subject headings. What do you think the subject

heading for domestic violence is? Perform a subject search using that

subject heading. How many results do you get? Choose three relevant information

sources. List the titles and authors

Final part of lesson

Reading eBooks and articles Requesting an information source

using Interlibrary Loan

718 Articles for autism vaccines

Article TitleJournal Title

Subject Terms

Keywords

Finding Ebooks

Reading E-Books

Intercampus LoanWhat if a print book is not

available at your campus library???

You may request it through the catalog:

Provide your Login Information

Provide a Pickup Location

Interlibrary LoanWORLDCAT – When you can’t find a book in

Gill Library- a consortium of participating libraries and the option to order via interlibrary loan.

Or on the Library Homepage

ILLiad: InterLibrary Loan

My Library

Log in to My Library with your CNR bar code See a list of your borrowing history See a list of your saved searches Renew a book or media item And more

MY Library Access

Your nameand Your barcode from your ID card (only

the numbers) Your Unique ID

Notes about ILLiad – InterLibrary Loan

Log in to ILLiad with your CNR username and password. They same as you use to log into a computer

When you use ILLiad for the first time you must register in the system.

After registering, redo your search and re-order your item.

Review Database Boolean Searching by viewing the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMV7X3W_beg and write a one page essay describing what you learned

Homework: Read Badke: Chapter 3. Database Searching with Keywords and Hierarchies. pp: 48-70 in preparation for week 4