royal holloway producing film/tv/media ma induction september 2016

7/29/2019 Royal Holloway Producing Film/TV/Media MA Induction September 2016

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COLIN HOMISKI

Research LibrarianMusic, Art, Film, Media Studies, Philosophy



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

books you have checked out, renewthem and place reservations)

Can check out 15 books at a time

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

Provides access to e-resources off-site

Serves as your Everyone Print Card

which 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.



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

●“Deep Web“ (i.e. searching for a plane or train ticket toParis at 20.00 tonight, or manuscripts of Dante)



●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)



Film Studies classmarks Encyclopedias of film: YXP1 Bibliography of film: YXP2 Film Directors: YXP4 Film Theory: YXPA Aesthetics & philosophy of film: YXPC Documentary film: YXPM

Early cinema: YXQ Cinema sound: YXR Film industry: YXS Film production and direction: YXT History of film (general): YXP3 UK cinema: YXP3e-YXP3ev French cinema: YXP3f Spanish cinema: YXP3g

Italian cinema: YXP3i German cinema: YXP3k Russian/Soviet cinema: YXP3n East Asian cinema: YXP3r-YXP3t Latin American cinema: 6th floor (34)

PN1990-1998 US cinema: US 6th floor (33) YXP3

Media Studies classmarks Journalism: YV-YVNB Theatre studies: YX-YXO History of British theatre: YX3e Media studies (general): YZ History of broadcasting: YZA Radio broadcasting: YZB Television studies: YZD Internet: SOCIOLOGY South Block

7th floor (3) KDTI

Mass media: SOCIOLOGY SouthBlock 7th floor (3) KBM



WEB 1 0



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WEB 1.0● Everythingconnected

globally

●CentrallyManaged

● Need to knowHTML

●Slow to change

●Unidirectional

●Authoritarian

●Think of your useof Bookmarks on

your computer



● CURRENCY - When was it written? Can you determinethe date? Can you identify the last time it was updated?

● RELIABILITY - How accurate and relevant is it to yourresearch? Can citations and references be verified usingother means?

● AUTHORITY - Is the author a known expert in his/herfield? What is the subject of their expertise? Can youverify them independently? Has the resource been peer-reviewed?

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

presentation of the data? Is there objectivity? (e.g. thinkif a tobacco or pharmaceutical company was funding thedata study or Rupert Murdoch’s papers or the Guardian,or the Independent )



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