Simulating Hurricane Katrina What Would the Librarian Do?

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Simulating Hurricane Katrina What Would the Librarian Do? Fred O’Bryant Applied Sciences Librarian Brown Science and Engineering Library April 2008

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Simulating Hurricane Katrina

What Would the Librarian Do?

Fred O’BryantApplied Sciences Librarian

Brown Science and Engineering Library

April 2008

Search Database – Mark Desired Records

Export to RefWorks

Records Now in Last Imported Folder

Move Citations to Project Folder(Animal Rescue Citations)

Bibliography Created by RefWorks

Make Folder Available to Others Using Shared Folder Option

Set Sharing Options as Desired

Creating a Group RefWorks Account

Method 1A project member creates a personal RefWorks account

and shares his/her login ID and password with all in the group

Method 2A project member creates a “project account” using a

fictitious user name and shares the login ID and password with all in the group

Search VIRGO

Some VIRGO (and Other Databases) Hints

• Use single quotes in VIRGO to search for phrases—use double quotes in most other databases:

‘hurricane katrina’ or “hurricane katrina”

• Use the truncation symbol $ and Boolean connectors to improve results (symbol may vary in other databases):

hurricane$ AND (wind OR tornado$) NOT flood$

• Try various combinations of terms and synonyms to insure best coverage and specificity

Interlibrary Loan

Journal Article Databases

Newspaper Article Databases

Journal Article Databases – Citation Referencing

Reference Books

Dissertations

Scholar’s Lab in Alderman Library (for Statistical and GIS Data)

Guide to Resources for the Study of New Orleans

Government Information Resources in Alderman Library

Search Engine for U.S. Government Science Resources

Weather Information

Technical Report Literature

Technical Report Literature

Web Searching

Web Searching

Military Resources

And if you have questions later, you should always…

Ask a librarian!

Phone 924-3628

E-Mail [email protected]

IM UVALibRef

Meebo Chat

Research Tutorial

Simulating Hurricane Katrina – What Would the Librarian Do?

Fred O’BryantApplied Sciences Librarian

Brown Science and Engineering Library

924–[email protected]

April 2008