Library Skills Workshop for BUS010 Lingnan University Library Sep

 Exercise must be submitted online:  URL:  Deadline: 13 Oct 2011 (Thu)  Questions are about skills with finding items in the Library catalogue and some basics in using online databases 2 Library Exercise

 Making the best out of the Library begins at the Library home page Overview 3

Library Toolbar 4  Like the convenience with the Google Toolbar or Yahoo! Toolbar? Quick searches and instant access to often used Library and University functions are readily available by installing the Lingnan University Library Toolbar:   Available for both IE and Firefox web browsers.

Library Toolbar 5 You can access the “Library Toolbar” webpage under the “Services & Facilities” tab

Room Booking System  Bookings can be made for the following rooms and facilities:  Discussion Rooms  Individual Study Rooms  CD-ROM / Database Workstations  Microfilm Workstations  Multimedia Booths  Demo for booking Discussion Room: om_booking_demo.swf om_booking_demo.swf 6

Survival Guide for New Students 7

 Title search  Author search  Keyword search  Understand the status codes, locations and call number system  Request in-process items, recall checked-out books  Course reserve  My Library Account (Online renewals, SMS alert service, reading history, etc.)  HKALL (Hong Kong Academic Library Link) 8 Library Catalogue

Title and Author Searches 9 Title Search Select “Title Search” Type the exact title or the first few words of the title in the search box Omit initial articles such as “a”, “an” and “the” from the title search. Author Search Select “Author Search” Type the author's name / name of a government body, an organization or a conference in the search box

 Question: I want to read the book written by Bill Gates in What should I do?  Answer: Search the Library Catalogue by name of Author. But you need to search by placing the Surname in front of the Given Names. 10 Example – If I already Know the Author ’ s Name

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 HINTS: the Library Catalogue can only be searched by book author, book title, journal title, etc.  Therefore, article titles, title and author of a chapter in the book usually are not searchable  Example: You are asked to read the followings: 1.Lai, D., & Surood, S. (2008). Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23(1), Ren Y. (1999). China’s Perceived Image of the United States: Its sources and impact. in P. Koehn and J. Cheng (Eds.), The Outlook for U.S.- China Relations Following the Summits: Chinese and American Perspectives on Security, Trade, and Cultural Exchanges (pp ). HK: Chinese UP. 13 Finding Items on Your Reading List

14 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

15 Need to search for the Journal Title “Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology” instead

16 Search Chapter Title “China’s Perceived Image of the United States” has NO MATCHES Example: Ren Y. (1999). China’s Perceived Image of the United States: Its sources and impact. in P. Koehn and J. Cheng (Eds.), The Outlook for U.S.- China Relations Following the Summits: Chinese and American Perspectives on Security, Trade, and Cultural Exchanges (pp ). HK: Chinese UP.

17 Need to search for the Book title “The Outlook for U.S. – China …” instead Example: Ren Y. (1999). China’s Perceived Image of the United States: Its sources and impact. in P. Koehn and J. Cheng (Eds.), The Outlook for U.S.- China Relations Following the Summits: Chinese and American Perspectives on Security, Trade, and Cultural Exchanges (pp ). HK: Chinese. This is CHAPTER in a BOOK

Keyword Search e.g. Keyword Search: Type the keyword “Hong Kong education reform*" in the search box General Search Tips Search terms are not case-sensitive Accept both Chinese and English terms Truncation: Keywords may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk Use a single asterisk* to truncate from 1 to 5 characters e.g. bank* (retrieves bank, banks, banker, banking, etc) s/opac_searchtips.html 18

Search results related to “Hong Kong education reform*" will be displayed. e.g. 76 results are found Click the title to view the bibliographic record 19

Subject heading which helps you to locate specific or related information. 20

Example – I do not know the Name of the Author / Title of the Book  Question: I am writing a paper about translation of Chinese poetry. My Lecturer told me that there is a Lingnan Master Thesis in 2003 about translation of some Chinese poetries. How can I find it?  Answer: Search the Library Catalogue by keywords, limit / sort by year and material types. There are different material types and one of it is Lingnan Thesis. 21 Searching for Reading Materials for your Term Paper

22 Under Keyword Search, you can limit results to Chinese or English; Books or Journals; Special Material Types; Between certain Years; Sorting Orders and More …

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Course Reserve Course Reserve by Instructor or Course (RES) 24

Course Reserve e.g. Search by course code: Type the course code “SOC319" in the search box 25

Course Reserve This area shows the professor’s name, course code and course name. This area shows the information of course materials, e.g. title, author, location and call number. 26

Course Reserve Some of the course materials can be viewed online. e.g. Internet -- E-reserve -- ON NETWORK 27

Course Reserve Click the “ELECTRONIC RESERVE copy” link to access the full text content 28

29 My Library Account, Online Renewals, SMS Alert Service

HKALL Click the “Search HKALL” button If you cannot find the materials you want in our library catalogue, you can search them in HKALL. HKALL stands for Hong Kong Academic Library Link ( 香港高校圖書聯網 ) Eligible Lingnan staff and students can borrow books from HKBU, CityU, CUHK, HKIEd, HKU, HKUST & PolyU libraries by making online requests. Instructions for Lingnan users

HKALL – Request Procedures Click the book title 31

HKALL – Request Procedures Eligible HKALL users at Lingnan University can make a HKALL request only if: The requested item is not available in the Lingnan University Library Other libraries have at least a copy of the item with the status "AVAILABLE" The user has not used up his / her request quota Click the “Request this title” link 32

HKALL – Request Procedures Choose “Lingnan” as your home library 33

HKALL – Request Procedures Fill out the authentication page by typing in your Lingnan username and password, then click the "Submit" to complete the request procedure. Please note that eligible Lingnan users can only borrow up to 10 HKALL items 34

Library Catalogue vs Electronic Databases  Library Catalogue Allows you to search for all kinds of library materials such as books, journals, AV materials, etc.  Electronic Databases e-books, book chapters, academic journal articles, news articles, statistics, glossaries and definitions, etc  Full-text Databases - contains the partial or complete text of works, such as articles, books, poems, and essays.  Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive information (citation and subject headings) for publications, such as books, periodical articles, & government documents, etc. 35 Using Electronic Databases

 Access:  Key Databases  ProQuest, EBSCOhost, WiseNews, Factiva, LexisNexis, 中國期刊全文數據庫  Find Databases by Subjects  WebBridge: Linking up Library-paid Databases and Full-text Contents 36 Using Electronic Databases

1. Identify key concepts: 2. Choice of search words (related key terms/synonyms) Example: Should the Government Introduce Sales Tax in Hong Kong?  Key concepts: sales tax, hong kong  Related key terms/synonyms  Sales tax: VAT, value-added tax, GST  Hong Kong: hk, hongkong 37 How to Construct a Search

3. Use appropriate operators (AND / OR / NOT) and wildcards/truncation (e.g. *, !)  AND: searches records that mention both search terms, this narrows the search  e.g. sales tax and hong kong ( 必須同時出現 )  OR: finds records in which one or both search terms appear, this broadens the search  e.g. vat or value added tax ( 只要任何一個出 現 ) 38 How to Construct a Search

4. Wildcards / Truncation: retrieves all variant endings of that word  EBSCOhost: *  ProQuest: *  LexisNexis Academic: !  OPAC: * e.g. bank* -- retrieves all words that start with bank such as bank, banking, banker, etc. 39 How to Construct a Search

5. ( )Parentheses: gives priority and order in the search statement e.g. (sales tax or vat or value added tax or gst) and hong kong 6. Be prepared to narrow / expand your search results by using database-specific features / changing your keywords 40 How to Construct a Search

41 1-Search Allows you to Search Many Databases at the Same Time

 WiseNews and WiseSearch  How to browse by HK Newspaper Categories?  How to search with WiseSearch? 42 Searching for News Stories

 General Enquiries  Integrated Helpdesk at Information Commons (1/F, Library)  Tel:  Ask A Librarian (Electronic Reference)  Contact Us  FAQ uently_Asked_Questions_About_the_Library uently_Asked_Questions_About_the_Library 43 Getting Help

Q & A Thank You! 44