Homework

• Full-text article – entire textual contents of article in online format

• Abstract – brief summary of article

• Citation – basic information required to locate an article in its source publication.

Virtual Reference

• Email

• Chat

• IM

• Blogs

Blogging in Libraries

• SFPL

• CCSF

Usability

• Web sites

• Services

Security

• Spam

• Spyware

• Security Strips

E-Journals

• If you are looking for a full-text article, you might find it in the library’s electronic journal subscription.

• American Literary History

Truncation

http://webopedia.com/TERM/t/truncate.html

The use of designated symbols such as * or ? to search for word or spelling variations.

– Single letter – character represents one missing letter such as wom?n

– Multiple letter – character represents multiple letters such as libr*

Stemming

• http://google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=basics#stemming

Digital Libraries

• Libraries of or with digital resources (digitized or born-digital). Libraries license access such as full-text e-journal databases and have no control over preservation of such materials. And some libraries purchase digital content or digitize their collection for the purpose of access and preservation.

Database v. Web Searching

• Databases– Structured– Records– Fields– Indexes– Controlled vocabulary

• Web– Unstructured– Full-text Keyword searching– Few if any fields– Indexes are primarily unstructured keyword– No controlled vocabulary

Gale Academic OneFile

• 20 fields?

• 22 searchable indexes

• And, Or, Not

Metasearching v. Metadata Searching

• Metasearching – federated searching

• Metadata Searching – searching for information by using indexed metadata rather than full-text keyword searching

8 Steps in Preparing a Search

1. Format – What do you need? Books, journals articles, Web sites, images, films, music etc.?

Electronic Journals

More important in academic libraries

STM – science, technology, medicine

Print use drop

Usage unmediated by the library?

Review

Computers

• ASCII

• Client/Server

• Hardware/Software

• OS/Applications

• USB

The Internet

• Synchronous/Asynchronous• Bandwidth• Blog• Protocols (FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP)• Firewall• HTML• IM• intranet

Integrated Library Management Systems

• Backup

• Bib Records

• Bibliographic utility

• Fixed fields

• ILS

• MARC

• OPAC

Acquisitions

• Claim• Collection development• E-books• Encumbrance• Expenditure• Fiscal close• ISBN• ISSN• Periodical aggregator• Monograph

Cataloging

• AACR2

• Access point

• Authority Record

• FRBR

• Indexing

• Indicator

• Item Record

Circulation

• Barcode

• Claims returned

• Loan rules

• Patron block table

• Patron record

• RFID

Serials

• Authentication

• Binding

• Electronic resource management

• Open URL

• Serials checkin

• SFX

OPAC

• Boolean operators

• Federated Searching

• Keyword search

• Metadata

• Phrase search

• URL

• XML

Resource Sharing

• Ariel• Consortial borrowing• Consortium• Direct consortial borrowing• Document delivery• ILL• Union catalog• Universal borrowing

Information Searching

• A&I Services• CD-ROM/DVD-ROM• Citation• Full-text databases• Harvest• Interoperability• Peer-review• Proximity operators

Computer Skills

• CSS

• DTD

• XHTML

• Truncation

• Preparing a search

Reasons to Automate

• Reports

• Access

• Confidentiality

• Collection management

• Circulation

Class Web Page

• http://fog.ccsf.edu/~acosta/56.htm