Library Workshop for AD Students Feb 2008

20/2/2008AD Workshop2 Workshop Outline A warm-up game Searching skills Library catalogue Databases Develop a search strategy ProQuest 5000/ EBSCOhost Lexis-Nexis Academic/ WiseNews 電子剪報 Avoiding Plagiarism

20/2/2008AD Workshop3 Warm-up game: Guess what? What’s the minimun no. of users in the Group Viewing Room?

20/2/2008AD Workshop4 Warm-up game: Guess what? Where is it?

20/2/2008AD Workshop5 Warm-up game: Guess what? How many books can you check out, for how long, and how many renewals? (Big prize with all answers correct!)

20/2/2008AD Workshop6 Loan Policy Loan Quota: 30 items Loan Period: Overdue Fines: * Renewal is made Online * No grace period for Multimedia Materials & Popular Books Material Type Loan Period Max. # of Renewal General 21 days 4 (21 days each) Reference / Non-Circulating Serials Library Use Only CDs/CD-ROMs/VCDs/DVDs 7days 4 (7 days each) Other Multimedia Materials Library Use Only

20/2/2008AD Workshop7 My Library Account Type in your barcode, e.g. z0079xxxxx Create a new password for first time user Click “Submit”, re-enter password twice for first time user Use for: - Online renewal - Request - Room booking - Off-campus access to e-resources

20/2/2008AD Workshop8 HKBU Library Catalogue

20/2/2008AD Workshop9 Book, Journal, Multimedia resource, (print or electronic) BUT NOT individual article! Library Tools on LIB Homepage

20/2/2008AD Workshop10 Library Catalogue Searching Skills

20/2/2008AD Workshop11 Author Last name + First name + Other names (optional) Title The whole title / First several words of the title The dark side of valuation: value old tech, new tech and new economy companies  The dark side of valuation Bill GatesGates, Bill Find out books written by Edward A. Dornan Library Catalogue Searching Skills Newsweek

20/2/2008AD Workshop12 Truncation To represent 0 or multiple characters advertis* adver* advertise, advertisement, advertising, etc. + adversary, adverse, adversity, etc.  Keyword Search

20/2/2008AD Workshop13 Phrase search foreign policy chinese foreign policy Keyword Search

20/2/2008AD Workshop14 Boolean operators A B AND AB OR Use when both A and B concepts are needed Use with synonyms to increase search results Advertis* AND television Homosexual* OR same sex Keyword Search

20/2/2008AD Workshop15 Advanced Search Scoping for : Journals Multimedia items, etc. Scoping for Shek Mun Campus Library

20/2/2008AD Workshop16 Hold Request Hold Request (HKBU) 1. The book was checked out Hold Request (UGC libraries) OR

20/2/2008AD Workshop17 Books that HKBU Library does not hold / that have been checked out, but that are held by other libraries with the status "AVAILABLE" in HKALL can be requested. The requested materials will be delivered to the Main Library for further checkout. Users will be using their HKBU loan quotas to borrow HKALL books in the Main Library. HKALL Loan QuotaLoan Period Undergraduate / AD students days (max. 2 renewal)

20/2/2008AD Workshop18 OPAC Searching Quiz Divide into groups of 2 15 minutes for the Quiz Prizes will be given to the group who get most answers correct!

20/2/2008AD Workshop19 Answers AV D186D 4.2 versions 5.Economic reform of China: 1 China economic reform: 5 Chin* economic reform: 44 Chin* and economic reform: General, Shek Mun Campus Library

20/2/2008AD Workshop20 Electronic Resources: Databases

20/2/2008AD Workshop21 Journal & Newspaper Article Online Dict., Encyclopedia Book, Journal, Multimedia resource, (print or electronic) BUT NOT individual article! Library Tools on LIB Homepage

20/2/2008AD Workshop22 Published Articles (Multi-Disciplines) ProQUEST EBSCOhost Journal / Newspaper Articles Research Reports Databases: Multi-discipline

20/2/2008AD Workshop23 Write an essay about the rich and the poor people in Hong Kong Develop a Search Strategy Key points? Other words? Synonyms? Combine them together richpoorHong Kong

20/2/2008AD Workshop24 Write an essay about the rich and the poor people in Hong Kong Develop a Search Strategy Key points? Other words? Synonyms? Combine them together richpoorHong Kong wealth wealthy millionaire poverty Low income AN D [ OR ] rich AND poor AND Hong Kong

20/2/2008AD Workshop25 Today’s news (including HKBU) Back issues (since 1998) Major HK newspapers (incl. SCMP) Newspapers & magazines in China, Taiwan Newspaper Database News ArticlesCurrent Events WiseNews 電子剪報 WiseNews 電子剪報 Lexis-Nexis Academic Back issues (some with >20 years) Major US newspapers International newspapers (incl. South China Morning Post from 1992 July)

20/2/2008AD Workshop26 APA and others Citation Guides

20/2/2008AD Workshop27 Databases Exercise You’ll have minutes to do some searches with databases !

20/2/2008AD Workshop28 - Online Dict., - Subject- based dict. - Encyclopedia Library Tools on LIB Homepage

20/2/2008AD Workshop29 How to Avoid Plagiarism? You must give credit whenever you use: Another person's idea, opinion, or theory Any information – facts, statistics, graphs, drawings – that are not common knowledge Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; Paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words. Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University. (No date). Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It [Online]. Available: [2004, March 23].

20/2/2008AD Workshop30 Online Evaluation: openworkshop/workshop_eval.html Thank you!