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7/23/2019 RCSSD Acting MA Induction

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COLIN HOMISKI

Research Librarian: Visual/Performing ArtsMusic, Art, Film, Media, Philosophy & Theology



Library Membership Card provides: Access to Your Account (see what books

you have checked out, renew them andplace reservations)

Can check out 15 (MA), 20 (PhD) booksat a time

Most SHL books 4 week loan periods(some 2 week loan)

Provides access to some e-resourcesoff-site

Serves as your Everyone Print Cardwhich includes photocopying, scanning

(last 4 digits on back) Access the Wi-Fi system. Do NOTbrowse and ‘connect to wi-fi.’ You willneed to set up a connection first.



●Google is a tremendous search engine - It is very smart -

can interpret "natural language" (i.e. plurals, misspellings,foreign words)

●BUT it can not always get the researcher to the end-user

product BECAUSE of authentication and subscription!(Problem with Google Scholar as well!)

●“Deep Web“ (i.e. searching for a plane or train ticket to

Paris at 20.00 tonight, or folios of Shakespeare)



●Not as “smart” as Google (although this is improvingwith various library software upgrades)●Start with KEYWORD search (Use NOUNS, not verbs,adjectives, pronouns or prepositions!)

●Basic principles:●Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)●Truncation: uses stem of a word such as THEAT* retrieves theater,theatre, theaters, theatres etc.) This is also called using a WILDCARD:sometimes it is ‘?’ or ‘!’ or ‘*’

●Controlled vocabulary (index, thesaurus, Library of Congress SubjectHeadings)



● English Collection (5th floor)Holds works and criticism on dramatists (i.e. Shakespeare (YH), Pinter (YQ

P65)

● Film and Media Collection (5th Floor)Has majority of historical, theoretical and critical coverage of theatre (YX)

by country (Britain, Italy) and by century.● But there are other areas such as Malcolm Morley Collection (theatre

history and stagecraft), Durning Lawrence Collection (Shakespeare/Baconauthorship controversy), first folios of Shakespeare.

● Area Studies (6th floor) United States, Commonwealth and Latin AmericanStudies.

● (e.g. David Mamet can be found NOT in (3) English as it is at (33) YTQM272. (33) is US Studies. (34) is Latin American Studies



Encyclopaedia/Dictionary databases (Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary of National

Biography, Grove Art)

Bibliographic/Indexes databases which contain all of the types of material written about

a particular topic such as journal articles, books, conference proceedings, theses, reviews, etc.

(Periodicals Index Online, MLA Bibliography,Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, International

Index to the Performing Arts, World Shakespeare Bibliography)

Full-text databases which have the full article in PDF/HTML to view/download (JSTOR,

Academic Search Complete, JISC Historical Texts (includes EEBO), Times Digital, Proquest

Newspapers, IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts, Nineteenth Century Collections

Online)

Citation Indexes which detail the ‘importance’ or ‘impact’ of particular article (Web ofKnowledge – Social Science Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index)

▪ *Databases blur these distinctions - Both Academic Search Complete and JSTOR have citation information on

‘more recent’ articles but not the full text (yet) because of moving wall . International Index to the Performing Arts(IIPA) indexes popular newspapers/journals AND has full text.



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● PURPOSE - Can you tell if there is any bias in the presentation of

the data? Is there objectivity? (e.g. think if a tobacco orpharmaceutical company was funding the data study or RupertMurdoch’s papers or the Guardian, or the Independent ) – test yourbias.



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