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Name:
Class:
Date due:
Your author:
Information Retrieval II
Electronic sources
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Encyclopedia Britannica (one printer-friendly page)
2. OPAC
3. Badgerlink (one printer-friendly page)
4. Interlibrary Loans
5. Bibliography (one printer-friendly page)
6. Biography Center (one printer-friendly page)
7. Appleton Public Library Quick Ref
On the I-S library homepage, the URL is located at the top of your page.
It comes after “location”, or “address” and usually start with “http://”
Identify the I-S library’s URL (Uniform Resource Locator): ____________
CAREFUL! DO NOT LEAVE ANY SPACE OR USE CAPITAL LETTERS
1.Encyclopededia Britannica: subscription-based
This site offers a key to a major encyclopedia, Britannica’s Internet Guide, and
the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
a) Click on Merriam Webster (in blue, in second part of your screen) and paste the word “famous” in the “Collegiate dictionary” search box (check for correct spelling). Make sure your word is NOT capitalized unless you deal with a proper noun: Ms Pohl’s first golden rule. Click on “go”.
What does the first definition say? _______________________
b) Now that you have a basic definition and pronunciation, click on the button
“thesaurus” and paste your word “famous”.
Click on “go”: what does the thesaurus do for you? __________________
Now, paste your author’s name on top in the “All Britannica Online” search box. Click on “go”. You should have 3 or 4 columns of information in front of you:
1)the encyclopedia itself,
2) a easier student version,
3) the web best sites
4) related magazine articles.
Your author’s name comes up as a hypertext (or blue
line) followed by a summary of the total Encyclopedia article. Click on the
hyperlink to get to the WHOLE article.
You can either read the whole article (time consuming) or go under “Edit” and
choose “find” (or press apple and F); in the search box type in your person and
enter. Your command asks the program to scan the page for that word.
If you want to know more about the many features of Encyclopedia Britannica,
click on “Help” to maximize your searches.
Now copy and paste your article to a Word document and print your article
(don’t forget to add your name and check the number of pages by moving the
cursor to the top of the scrollbar and tapping the “Page Down” key on your
keyboard and counting the number of times it takes to get to the bottom of the
page).
c) With the “Magazines” button, you can check articles from magazines which have entered an agreement with Britannica to have their articles on the Britannica site.
d) With “Web best sites”, you have access to carefully selected and evaluated “free” documents. By clicking on any hyperlink of your choice you get more information.
2. OPAC
OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog): a computerized listing of all materials in our library. Find the icon with the word OPAC on the shelf and double click. You are now connected to the WISCAT database, which has OUR bibliographic records as well as the records from 1,200 libraries in Wisconsin. Click on “begin”.
1.Type in your Author’s name and click on “Search”. How many titles did you get? ____. You just ordered your computer to use a keyword search or an “all headings” search technique.
2.Click on “Advanced search” on the top bar; type again your Author’s name, and in the box across, use the pull-down menu to change “all headings” (same as keyword) to “subject”. How many titles are now listed? ___________
3. Which technique gives you the largest number of hits? ______
4. Which technique gives you the closest match to your search? In other words, which technique is the most exact and relevant? ______
5. Look back at your results and explain how a “all headings” search works.
________________________________________________________________________
6. Now go back to the “Advanced Search” and click on the button AND; add one more term related to your person (ex: biography). Explain clearly what the “AND” link word (also known as a Boolean operator) does for your search? ______________________________________________________________
7. Change from “Newest title first” to “Alphabetically by title”.
To the right of your screen, click on the “Media” tab and choose “books”. Click on “submit” and redo your search. How many titles now? ____________
8. Select any title related to your Author’s name and fill out the following information:
Title of material: ____________________________
Author: _______________________
Place of publication: ______________________
Publisher: _________________________ Copyright date: ____________________
Name of one of the libraries that has your book: _________________________________
3. Badgerlink: fee-based
Includes national magazines and newspapers. Gives you access to Milwaukee Sentinel and Capital Times.
Click on the button “Magazines”. You have in front of you a list of powerful databases. Deselect “MasterFile Premier” and pick “Middle Search Plus”.
Ms. Pohl’s second golden rule: always use quotes with a phrase.
Type in “Harry Potter”.
How many citations did you retrieve? _______Click on the blue tab “refine search”.
Under “Limit your results”, click in the box marked “full text”. Search again.
How many results now? _____ Click again on the blue tab “refine search”.
Limit from November 2003 to October 2004.
What’s your answer? ________
Now go back and do a search typing in your person.
Print a one -page article about your person.
4.Interlibrary Loan: free database
Interface provided by OWLS (Outagamie Waupaca Library System). Regroups the collections of all the member libraries in both counties. Allows you not only to find your book, but also to reserve it from home with your library card number.
Notice that cursor changes to a hand when it moves over certain areas. Those areas are called hyperlinks (lines usually in blue or lavender).
Click on hyperlink http://newcat.owls.lib.wi.us/
5. Bibliography
Choose the hyperlink “NoodleBib: The MLA Bibliograhy Composer”.
Enter student2 as user name and citation as password. Double click on NoodleBib.
Scroll down the screen and click on Create your personal folder and fill in the information (record this in your agenda book).
Click on NoodleBib 6.
Click on Start a new list.
In Step one select the radio button MLA starter.
In Step 2 add in description the word author.
Now click on Start adding citations.
From the pull down menu, select books as a citation type and let go.
Click on next. Select the radio button print. At the bottom of the page click on next.
In the space First name type yours and in last name type yours. Type across Title of book My Life. For City of Publication type in Iola, for publisher’s name Krause, and for Year of Publication 2006.
Click on generate citation. On the left, click on Documenting Formatting and go to Change titles. Replace Works cited with Bibliography. Still on the left, click on Preview and let go. Here is your final product! Go to file and print and voilà! Affix to your packet.
6. Biography Resource Center: fee-based
Database giving you information about …people! Go to Reference and then to the Appleton Public Library. Click on the Celeb/Bio from the left menu. Access the Biography Resource Center*.
1) type in Homer. What is this famous Greek’s profession? __________
Now redo the search with your person and print ONE page of information.
EXTRA-CREDIT
8. Appleton Public Library Quick Ref: free
a) Under “News and Media”, choose “W. channel” (for the weather channel). What’s the weather like in Iola today? _________
b) Under “ready Reference”, choose “Dictionaries/Translators” and then under “translators” pick “AltaVista”. Translate “your mama is a llama” in Spanish: _______________________________________________________
c) Under “reference tools” to the right, choose “Internet Movie Database”. Find out who directed your best movie ever _________________
d) In left column, click on “geography”, then under “Driving Distances/Maps” select “Mapquest”. Click on tab “driving directions”. In search boxes, type “Iola, Wi” as departure point and Aspen, Colorado as your destination.
What is your estimated time for the trip: _____________
e) NBA
In left column, choose “Sports”, then click on “basketball”
What’s the headline? _________________________
f) In left column, under “Money & Taxes”, under “Exchange rate” try the
“currency converter”. How many Iraqi dinars in one dollar? _______
Pre-Test for Information Retrieval Skills (Journeyman:Level 2)
1. What is copying verbatim from a phrase, a paragraph, or a text called?
2. What is a citation (not from the police)?
3. What is a database?
4. What does a keyword search do?
5. CAR stands for:
a.
b.
c.
6. Name 2 online encyclopedias
7. Give your definition of a hyperlink.
8. What URL do you use for biographical information?
9. Name 2 resources the Iola-Scandinavia library offers for magazine articles.
a. b.
10. How do you find quickly your word in a document?
11. Where do you go first if you have no idea what your person is all about?
12. When you get too many hits in a database, how can you narrow your search down?
Extra credit: What are Ms. Pohl’s two golden rules?
Name:
Class:
Date due:
Your author:
Information Retrieval II
Electronic sources
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Encyclopedia Britannica (one printer-friendly page)
2. OPAC
3. Badgerlink (one printer-friendly page)
4. Interlibrary Loans
5. Bibliography (one printer-friendly page)
6. Biography Center (one printer-friendly page)
7. Appleton Public Library Quick Ref
On the I-S library homepage, the URL is located at the top of your page.
It comes after “location”, or “address” and usually start with “http://”
Identify the I-S library’s URL (Uniform Resource Locator): ____________
CAREFUL! DO NOT LEAVE ANY SPACE OR USE CAPITAL LETTERS
1.Encyclopededia Britannica: subscription-based
This site offers a key to a major encyclopedia, Britannica’s Internet Guide, and
the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
a) Click on Merriam Webster (in blue, in second part of your screen) and paste the word “famous” in the “Collegiate dictionary” search box (check for correct spelling). Make sure your word is NOT capitalized unless you deal with a proper noun: Ms Pohl’s first golden rule. Click on “go”.
What does the first definition say? _______________________
b) Now that you have a basic definition and pronunciation, click on the button
“thesaurus” and paste your word “famous”.
Click on “go”: what does the thesaurus do for you? __________________
Now, paste your author’s name on top in the “All Britannica Online” search box. Click on “go”. You should have 3 or 4 columns of information in front of you:
1)the encyclopedia itself,
2) a easier student version,
3) the web best sites
4) related magazine articles.
Your author’s name comes up as a hypertext (or blue
line) followed by a summary of the total Encyclopedia article. Click on the
hyperlink to get to the WHOLE article.
You can either read the whole article (time consuming) or go under “Edit” and
choose “find” (or press apple and F); in the search box type in your person and
enter. Your command asks the program to scan the page for that word.
If you want to know more about the many features of Encyclopedia Britannica,
click on “Help” to maximize your searches.
Now copy and paste your article to a Word document and print your article
(don’t forget to add your name and check the number of pages by moving the
cursor to the top of the scrollbar and tapping the “Page Down” key on your
keyboard and counting the number of times it takes to get to the bottom of the
page).
c) With the “Magazines” button, you can check articles from magazines which have entered an agreement with Britannica to have their articles on the Britannica site.
d) With “Web best sites”, you have access to carefully selected and evaluated “free” documents. By clicking on any hyperlink of your choice you get more information.
2. OPAC
OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog): a computerized listing of all materials in our library. Find the icon with the word OPAC on the shelf and double click. You are now connected to the WISCAT database, which has OUR bibliographic records as well as the records from 1,200 libraries in Wisconsin. Click on “begin”.
1.Type in your Author’s name and click on “Search”. How many titles did you get? ____. You just ordered your computer to use a keyword search or an “all headings” search technique.
2.Click on “Advanced search” on the top bar; type again your Author’s name, and in the box across, use the pull-down menu to change “all headings” (same as keyword) to “subject”. How many titles are now listed? ___________
3. Which technique gives you the largest number of hits? ______
4. Which technique gives you the closest match to your search? In other words, which technique is the most exact and relevant? ______
5. Look back at your results and explain how a “all headings” search works.
________________________________________________________________________
6. Now go back to the “Advanced Search” and click on the button AND; add one more term related to your person (ex: biography). Explain clearly what the “AND” link word (also known as a Boolean operator) does for your search? ______________________________________________________________
7. Change from “Newest title first” to “Alphabetically by title”.
To the right of your screen, click on the “Media” tab and choose “books”. Click on “submit” and redo your search. How many titles now? ____________
8. Select any title related to your Author’s name and fill out the following information:
Title of material: ____________________________
Author: _______________________
Place of publication: ______________________
Publisher: _________________________ Copyright date: ____________________
Name of one of the libraries that has your book: _________________________________
3. Badgerlink: fee-based
Includes national magazines and newspapers. Gives you access to Milwaukee Sentinel and Capital Times.
Click on the button “Magazines”. You have in front of you a list of powerful databases. Deselect “MasterFile Premier” and pick “Middle Search Plus”.
Ms. Pohl’s second golden rule: always use quotes with a phrase.
Type in “Harry Potter”.
How many citations did you retrieve? _______Click on the blue tab “refine search”.
Under “Limit your results”, click in the box marked “full text”. Search again.
How many results now? _____ Click again on the blue tab “refine search”.
Limit from November 2003 to October 2004.
What’s your answer? ________
Now go back and do a search typing in your person.
Print a one -page article about your person.
4.Interlibrary Loan: free database
Interface provided by OWLS (Outagamie Waupaca Library System). Regroups the collections of all the member libraries in both counties. Allows you not only to find your book, but also to reserve it from home with your library card number.
Notice that cursor changes to a hand when it moves over certain areas. Those areas are called hyperlinks (lines usually in blue or lavender).
Click on hyperlink http://newcat.owls.lib.wi.us/
5. Bibliography
Choose the hyperlink “NoodleBib: The MLA Bibliograhy Composer”.
Enter student2 as user name and citation as password. Double click on NoodleBib.
Scroll down the screen and click on Create your personal folder and fill in the information (record this in your agenda book).
Click on NoodleBib 6.
Click on Start a new list.
In Step one select the radio button MLA starter.
In Step 2 add in description the word author.
Now click on Start adding citations.
From the pull down menu, select books as a citation type and let go.
Click on next. Select the radio button print. At the bottom of the page click on next.
In the space First name type yours and in last name type yours. Type across Title of book My Life. For City of Publication type in Iola, for publisher’s name Krause, and for Year of Publication 2006.
Click on generate citation. On the left, click on Documenting Formatting and go to Change titles. Replace Works cited with Bibliography. Still on the left, click on Preview and let go. Here is your final product! Go to file and print and voilà! Affix to your packet.
6. Biography Resource Center: fee-based
Database giving you information about …people! Go to Reference and then to the Appleton Public Library. Click on the Celeb/Bio from the left menu. Access the Biography Resource Center*.
1) type in Homer. What is this famous Greek’s profession? __________
Now redo the search with your person and print ONE page of information.
EXTRA-CREDIT
8. Appleton Public Library Quick Ref: free
a) Under “News and Media”, choose “W. channel” (for the weather channel). What’s the weather like in Iola today? _________
b) Under “ready Reference”, choose “Dictionaries/Translators” and then under “translators” pick “AltaVista”. Translate “your mama is a llama” in Spanish: _______________________________________________________
c) Under “reference tools” to the right, choose “Internet Movie Database”. Find out who directed your best movie ever _________________
d) In left column, click on “geography”, then under “Driving Distances/Maps” select “Mapquest”. Click on tab “driving directions”. In search boxes, type “Iola, Wi” as departure point and Aspen, Colorado as your destination.
What is your estimated time for the trip: _____________
e) NBA
In left column, choose “Sports”, then click on “basketball”
What’s the headline? _________________________
f) In left column, under “Money & Taxes”, under “Exchange rate” try the
“currency converter”. How many Iraqi dinars in one dollar? _______
Pre-Test for Information Retrieval Skills (Journeyman:Level 2)
1. What is copying verbatim from a phrase, a paragraph, or a text called?
2. What is a citation (not from the police)?
3. What is a database?
4. What does a keyword search do?
5. CAR stands for:
a.
b.
c.
6. Name 2 online encyclopedias
7. Give your definition of a hyperlink.
8. What URL do you use for biographical information?
9. Name 2 resources the Iola-Scandinavia library offers for magazine articles.
a. b.
10. How do you find quickly your word in a document?
11. Where do you go first if you have no idea what your person is all about?
12. When you get too many hits in a database, how can you narrow your search down?
Extra credit: What are Ms. Pohl’s two golden rules?
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