Ivy Kan, Information Services Librarian Email: ivykan@ln.edu.hkPhone: 2616-8570

This PowerPoint can be downloaded from: http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/il_handouts

Lingnan University LibraryOct 2013

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to: have an overview on different types of library resources. apply different search strategies in searching the library online catalogue, 1-search, and other databases related to your course.identify key databases for your course.

AV materials, books, journals, newspapers

◦ 1. Searched by Library Online Catalogue http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/

◦ 2. Searched by 1-Searchhttp://lingnan.summon.serialssolutions.com/

◦ 3. Databases http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/databases

Guides@LU◦ http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/

Library Online Catalogue

AV materials, E-Databases, E-Journals, Selected Internet Resources

1-SearchSubject Guides

Step 1 – Identify key concepts◦ Author? A particular work? Content of the work?

Criticism of a particular work? ◦ Main concepts can be the name of an author or

keyword from a particular work E.g. I would like to write a paper on the criticism on

description of childhood in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go childhood Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go criticism

Step 2 – Selection of search words◦ Use related words/synonyms

E.g. childhood: adolescence / schooldays◦ Use of Thesaurus◦ For author search, type surname first (E.g. Austen Jane, but NOT Jane Austen)

Step 3 – Search command◦ Use “AND/OR”

E.g. Austen AND Pride E.g. youth or adolescent or teenager

◦ Truncation (retrieves all variant endings of that word)

E.g. critic* (criticize, criticism, critical etc.)◦ Quotation Marks “ ”: search the words as an

exact phrase, this narrows down the search◦ Parentheses ( ) : gives priority and order in the

search statement E.g. (childhood OR adolescence) and “never let me go”

and criticism

Title search ◦ E.g. Pride and Prejudice

Author search ◦ E.g. Austen, Jane (NOT Jane Austen for author search)

Subject search ◦ E.g. Fiction – History and criticism ◦ E.g. [author name] -- Criticism and interpretation

www.library.ln.edu.hk

Q: I want to read the book written by J.K. Rowling in 2012. However I forgot the title of the book, what should I do?

A: Search the Library Catalogue by Author. Be sure to search by placing the SURNAME in front of the first name. In this example, you should search “Rowling, J.K.”

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Example : You are asked to read the following journal article by your instructor:

Lai, D., & Surood, S. (2008). Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23(1), 57-75

***Hints: The Library catalogue can only search for titles of books and names of journals, but not the articles within the book or the journal***

Level 2

Search Article Title “Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians” has NO MATCHES

Example: Lai, D., & Surood, S. (2008). Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23(1), 57-75

Level 2

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Click to view the details(location, call number and status) of the journal.

Level 2

Search for the Journal Title “Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology” instead

If you cannot find a specific book in the Lingnan University Library Catalogue, you can search for HKALL to see if the item can be borrowed in other 7 UGC-funded University Libraries.

E.g. Twenty-first century novels the first decade

If you cannot find a book from the local Libraries, you can request for the ILLiad service.

Instructions of ILLiad: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/services/interlibrary-loan-services

For year 1-2 students: please fill in the form for the ILLiad service (instead of registering online), from the Circulation Counter of the Library.

Click here or type the following link to access the Quiz (ENG204)http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/quiz

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One single search box Many different types of contents Facet refine Report problems to us User Guide:

http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/1-search_guide

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E.g. Search for “The Quiet American” in 1-Search

To refine your search – using the facets on the left of the result page

Number of search results

Limit to items with full text online Limit to scholarly publications Limit the time frame Select appropriate content types Select appropriate subject terms Select a special language

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Click “Full Text Online” to see the online journal article, normally you will be linked to a “Check for Full Text” page

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Click “Journal” and access the journal article by year/volume/page

Click “Article”, then a new webpage , containing links to view the article, will appear.

Here below are some examples of the “Check for Full Text”

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Perform a key word search: education reform AND ChinaNo. of results:

Limit results by Content type: Journal articlesNo. of results:

What if limit results by date range from 2010 to present No. of results:

Click on the Full Text Online for one of the results on your list

Bonus question: Put quotation marks (“ “) around phrases No. of results:

Are the results more relevant?□Yes □ No

Electronic databases provides information at different levels. Depending on whether it is a full text database or bibliographic index database, it will provide the article level information, table of contents and often the full-text.

Access ALL library-subscribed databases in one link: http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/databases

OR

Click the “Databases” quick link on the right-hand corner of Library Website

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You can browse for database titles conveniently from Databases A-Z

Browse Databases by Types-Abstracts-Company Information-News-E-books-Statistics…

Academic Search Premier EBSCOhost Contemporary Authors Contemporary Literary Criticism Literature Online (LION) MLA International Bibliography JSTOR Etc. …

http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://www.jstor.org

ExampleBeloved (item title) ANDreview

Full-text information of news, business, and legal publications in English› SCMP: from July 28, 1992 to

current Easy Search

› Search news articles› Find a US legal case by Citation

or Party Name › Find a company profile by Name

or Ticker Symbol › Find a country profile › Research a person › Do a broad search across

different types of sources

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http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/ap/academic

ExampleExampleOccupy Occupy CentralCentral

Power Search◦ Index Terms lookup◦ Supports sophisticated

query language techniques for Boolean Searching

http://search.proquest.com/mlaib/index?accountid=12107

http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/

http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lingnan?db=ca (No. of concurrent users = 2)

A portal to databases, subject guides and various user guides on library services and facilities

http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/

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In order to avoid the trap of plagiarism, we need to properly provide citations to ALL the resources (e.g. books, journal articles, websites) that we have made reference to in our research paper.

Citations are the key information of each piece of resource. It often includes :

Book chapter title / Journal article title / Webpage title Book title / Journal title Authors (and editors) Volume no. , issue no. & page no. of the journal article

in the journal Publisher and publication place of the book Address of the webpage (if the article is retrieved online

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Citation styles are the rules that govern on how we format these citations.

There are many different citation styles set up by different academic bodies or publishers. The most commonly used ones include the APA style, MLA style and the Chicago style.

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A Book:Hollands, William.  Teaching the Internet

to Library Staff and Users: 10 Ready-to-Go Workshops that Work. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1999.

A Journal Article:Tsang, Steve. "China and Political

Reform in Hong Kong." The Pacific Review 2.1 (1989): 68-74.

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Bibliography & Plagiarism http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/bibliography_plagiarism/citing_quoting

RefWorks:http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://www.refworks.com/refworks2/?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWLingnanUL

Citation Builder (from NCSU Libraries): http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/citationbuilder/

Managing Bibliography in Microsoft Word: Microsoft Word◦ ReferencesInsert Citation Add New Source

Manage Sources◦ http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/bibliography_plagiarism/

citation_msword

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Phone: 2616 8571

Email: refstaff@ln.edu.hk

Chat with a Librarian at:http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/research/ask-librarian

(2pm-5pm, Mon-Fri)

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http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/il_handouts

(Click “Library Workshops” under “Evaluation Forms”)

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Q & AQ & A

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