information literacy: the game show!
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INFORMATION LITERACY:
The Game Show!
Search Techniques
• title searches
• keyword searches
• phrase searching
• using 360 link
Game Rules!
• 4-5 students come on down!
• The co-host will describe a library item
• You guess the retail price
• The winner? Whoever guesses the closest price without going over wins a point and goes on to the next challenge. If everyone goes over, the person with the closest price goes on to the next challenge
• The next challenge is locating the resource in U-Search in under 2 minutes
Finding an entry in an encyclopedia
1. Find the encyclopedia title
2. Look for the entry
Finding an article
Use the
• title of the source
• title of the article
“Phrase searching” helps!
U-Search…
• Has HALF of our databases
automatically plugged into it!
• You can retrieve SOME
information in other
databases through 360 Link
Using 360 Link
• Locate your item in U-Search
• Click the icon:
• Click "link to full text article“
Are you ready to play?
letters, journals, memoirs,
interviews, and more
Primary Sources
Actual Retail Price?
$29.98
Queen Victoria in Her
Letters and Journals
Secondary SourcesAuthor analyzes primary
sources to make own conclusions
Actual Retail Price?
$229.74American Music in the
Twentieth Century
Encyclopedias
Give you some background of an issue
Actual Retail Price?
$446.73Encyclopedia of
Political Theory
Scholarly Journal Articles
• Written by experts
• Can be very recent research
Actual Retail Price?
$37.50“Western Concepts,
Chinese Context”
International Journal
of Pedagogies and Learning
From the journal
Newspaper Articles
• Written by journalists/non-experts
• Can be recent information
Actual Retail Price?
$3.95“Murder in Mind”
Washington Post
From the newspaper
Magazine Articles
• Written by journalists/non-experts
• Can be recent information
Actual Retail Price?
$5.95“South Padre’s Magic
Shrinking Beaches”
Saturday Evening Post
From the magazine
SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN
How much would you estimate
all these items are worth?
Book Reviews
Explains the author’s argument and
how s/he tried to make it
Actual Retail Price?
$35.00“Consumed: How
Markets Corrupt”
Journal of Industrial Ecology
From the journal
DocumentariesTell stories about real events and people
Actual Retail Price?
$19.78Exit Through
the Gift Shop
Author’s Method
Institutional study
Actual Retail Price?
$32.00“Peeling Back
the Layers”
Enterprise & Society
From the journal
Author’s Method
Biological study
Actual Retail Price?
$31.50“Engineering Plant
Metabolism into
Microbes”
Current Opinion
in Biotechnology
From the journal
Author’s Method
Community study
Actual Retail Price?
$30.73"A Primary School
Arts Festival”
Victorian Journal of
Music Education
From the journal
Author’s Method
Focuses on mapmaking techniques
Actual Retail Price?
$20.00‘‘Giuseppe Vasi's Nuova
Pianta di Roma (1781)’’
From the journal
Eighteenth-Century Studies
SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN
How much would you estimate
all these items are worth?
Search Techniques
• title searches
• keyword searches
• phrase searching
• using 360 link
Questions? Contact us!
Porter Henderson Library Research Assistance
(325) 486-6534