VIS4310 Introduction to Museum Studies - Exploring Library’s resources

Lingnan University LibrarySep 2013Terence Cheung – Reference Librarian

Tel: 2616 8572 Email: terencecheung@ln.edu.hk

What library service do you use?

What sources do you use for your research?

Any problems?

Today’s Contents• Basic Research Concept & Searching Techniques

• Library Catalogue & 1-Search

• Consolidated Databases

EBSCOhost

JSTOR

• Databases related to Visual Studies

ARTstor

Grove Art Online (Oxford Art Online)

• News database – Factiva

• Theses & Dissertations

• Google Scholar

• Plagiarism

• Citation – Chicago Citation Style

• Q&As

Make the things right at the beginning.

Good investment of time.

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By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:• have an overview on different types of library &

internet resources in order to select the most appropriate tools in doing research.

• apply different search strategies in using the library online catalogue, 1-search, and other Visual Studies related databases in order to extract relevant information efficiently and effectively.

• Have an understanding of the basic knowledge on citation and using Chicago style of citation

What do you do before you do a research?

What

Why

Where

When

Which

Who

Don’t need all the answers at the beginning!!!

Research Techniques Boolean Operators

AND – both terms will appear in the result. e.g. museum AND film

OR – at least either one of the terms will appear in the result. e.g. film OR movie

NOT– only find items that do not contain the search term. e.g. film NOT comedy

museum AND film OR movie

What will you find?

Research Techniques Parenthesis

( ) Use parenthesis ( ) to group words together and set the order of the search when using Boolean Operators.

e.g. use museum AND (film OR movie) will find items with museum and film or items with museum and movie in the result.

Research Techniques Phase Search

“ “ Use quotation mark for the exact phase. e.g. use “art history” will find the exact phrase art history in the result instead of items contains art and history separately.

Research Techniques Wildcards? Use question mark for one letter

truncation.e.g. use wom?n will find women or woman in the result.

* Use asterisk for several letters truncation.e.g. use behavior* will find behavior, behavioral, behaviorist, behaviorism, or behaviorally in the result.

Evaluating Information

• Authorship and Publishing Body: WHO is the author /

publisher?

• Target Group: WHO is the intended audience?

• Currency: WHEN was the information released?

• Purpose: WHY this information was written?

• Referral: HOW did the author find this information? Are

there references to other sources?

• Accuracy : Is the information accurate?

Guide for research and using databases

Guides@LU

Guide for Cultural Studies

We have over 260 databases. Good and Bad!!!

Databases by types, subjects, A-Z

User Guide

Use the database’s user guide

Input the search terms

1-Search

Narrow down your search by different criteria

Click this icon to save the article to the list.

Research Techniques How to narrow down your search

• Use more search terms

• Limit the time frame

• Limit to scholarly publications

• Select appropriate content types

• Select appropriate subject

• Select appropriate sources

1-Search Advanced Search

Advanced Search

Search by title, author, publication, etc.

Search by title, author, publication, etc.

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To limit your search (to have more precise results) by selecting these facets

Sort the results by :-relevance-date

How to View the Full-text ?

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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

How to View Full-text ?

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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.

Exercise 1: Which of the following is the title of the dissertations/theses on the topic of marketing of museum published in 2001?

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A. Investigation of the current marketing practices and consumer orientation in Ontario museums

B. Adopting marketing strategies in museums

C. Museum marketing: competing in the global marketplace

D. Museum management and marketing

Exercise 1: Which of the following is the title of the dissertations/theses on the topic of marketing of museum published in 2001

The answer is B

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• Perform a keyword search on “marketing” and “museum”

• Limit the search to “Dissertation/Thesis”

• Limit the search to the year 2001

EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost – Academic Search Premier

EBSCOhost – Academic Search Premier

EBSCOhost – Academic Search Premier

JSTOR

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JSTOR

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Full-text

ARTstor

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ARTstor

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Limited by “Classification” ,“Geography”, etc.

ARTstor – ExerciseTry to search a Chinese painting on Chinese woman within the classification of “Fashion, Costume and Jewelry”. Which is the one you found?

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A. C.

B. D.

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ARTstor – ExerciseTry to search a Chinese painting on Chinese woman within the classification of “Fashion, Costume and Jewelry”. Which is the one you found?

The answer is C

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• Perform a keyword search on “Chinese woman”

• Limit the search to “Fashion, Costume and Jewelry” under classification

Grove Art Online (Oxford Art Online)

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Grove Art Online

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e.g. Francois Boucher

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Grove Art Online

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Enlarge image

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Grove Art Online &The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Grove Art Online

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Factiva

Factiva

Factiva

Dissertations

Dissertations

Click “Settings”

Google Scholar

Search “Lingnan University” & “WorldCat”

Google Scholar

Click “Library links”

Google Scholar

Findit@Lingnan links will appear next to those items which are held by Lingnan University.

Google Scholar

According to Oxford English Dictionary , Plagiarism refers

to:

The action or practice of taking someone else‘s work,

idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft.

A particular idea, piece of writing, design, etc., which has

been plagiarized; an act or product of plagiary.

Plagiarism -- 學術剽竊 (online video) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0R4WzbOGIY&feature=yo

utu.be

Plagiarism: How to avoid it (Bainbridge College) (Online

video) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q0NlWcTq1Y

User Guide: http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/bibliography_plagiarism

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What is Plagiarism?

Citation

Citation

Citation

Citation

Chicago-Style Citation

Chicago citation style - Books and journal articles by Genesee Community College

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• Book – one author

Notes1. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A

Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006), 99–100.

2. Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma, 3.

BibliographyPollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A

Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Chicago-Style Citation

• Journal article

Notes1. Joshua I. Weinstein, “The Market in Plato’s

Republic,” Classical Philology 104 (2009): 440.2. Weinstein, “Plato’s Republic,” 452–53.

BibliographyWeinstein, Joshua I. “The Market in Plato’s

Republic.” Classical Philology 104 (2009): 439–58.

Chicago-Style Citation

• Book published electronically Notes

1. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, doc. 19, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ (accessed February 28, 2010).

BibliographyKurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’

Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/. (Accessed February 28, 2010.)

Chicago-Style Citation

• Article in an online journalNotes

1. Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network,” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 411. doi:10.1086/599247 (Accessed February 28, 2010).

BibliographyKossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. “Origins of

Homophily in an Evolving Social Network.” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 405–50. doi:10.1086/599247 (Accessed February 28, 2010).

Chicago-Style Citation

• Electronic source caption

Chicago-Style Citation

• Electronic source caption

Chicago-Style Citation

Electronic source caption

Chicago-Style Citation

Figure 3. Leonardo da Vinci: ‘Mona Lisa’, panel, 600×470 mm, c. 1500–07 (Paris, Musée du Louvre); Photo credit: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/img/grove/art/F014932 (accessed September 22, 2011).

Chicago-Style Citation

Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guidehttp://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

The Chicago manual of style online [electronic resource]http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/restrict/chicagomanual.html

Chicago-Style Citation - Exercise

1. Form a group of 2-3 persons.

2. In the given envelop, you will find pieces of paper with parts of a citation.

3. One set in pink (for book) and one set in blue (for journal article), separate them first.

4. Make one Chicago-style citation note for a book (pink).

5. Make one Chicago-style citation bibliography for a journal article (blue).

6. The fastest team with the correct answer is the winner.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

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