1. Stephen E. Lucas C H A P T E R McGraw-Hill© 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. 6 Gathering Materials

2. Slide 2 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Using Your Own Knowledge and Experience Your personal experiences can sometimes supply many supporting materials for your speeches.

3. Slide 3 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Library Resources Librarians Catalogue Periodical indexes Newspapers Reference works

4. Slide 4 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Catalogue A listing of all the books, periodicals, and other resources owned by a library.

5. Slide 5 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. NFU E-Catalogue

6. Slide 6 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Periodical Database A research aid that catalogues articles from a large number of journals or magazines.

7. Slide 7 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Periodical Database

8. Slide 8 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Database

9. Slide 9 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. ABI/Inform Database

10. Slide 10 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Sample Result-Newspaper Database

11. Slide 11 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Abstract A summary of a magazine or journal article, sometimes written by someone other than the original author.

12. Slide 12 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Reference Work A work that synthesizes a large amount of related information for easy access by researchers.

13. Slide 13 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Types of Reference Works Encyclopedias Yearbooks Dictionaries Quotation books Biographical aids Atlases and gazetteers

14. Slide 14 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Internet Search Aids Search Engines Metasearch Engines Virtual Libraries

15. Slide 15 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Search Engine A search aid such as Google that indexes Web pages and checks them for sites that match a researcher’s request.

16. Slide 16 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Metasearch Engine A search aid that sends a researcher’s request to several search engines at the same time. Dogpile www.dogpile.comwww.dogpile.com MetaCrawler www.metacrawler.comwww.metacrawler.com

17. Slide 17 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Virtual Library A search aid that combines Internet technology with traditional library methods of cataloguing and assessing data.

18. Slide 18 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Invisible Web The multitude of Web databases and other resources that are not indexed by search engines.

19. Slide 19 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Evaluating Internet Documents Authorship Sponsorship Recency

20. Slide 20 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Bookmark A feature in a Web browser that stores links to sites so they can be easily revisited.

21. Slide 21 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Organizing Bookmark How to organize your bookmark? Creating category Sorting links Import/Export bookmark file

22. Slide 22 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Hands-On Activity I Export Bookmark (including global warming, media ethic, and energy crisis, three folders and at least 2 links under each folder) and email your bookmark to your mail account and to me.

23. Slide 23 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Hands-On Activity II Go to our library and find an electronic periodical database and search one topic related to global warming, media ethic, or energy crisis. Please look for information from a newspaper, a magazine, a book, a journal, and an Internet website EACH and cite the references properly using APA style. (refer to your student CD-ROM)

24. Slide 24 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Hands-On Activity III Please visit one of the virtual libraries listed on pp 151. Identify which one you visited and describe the authorship/sponsorship and recency of the site.

25. Slide 25 McGraw-Hill © 2004 Stephen E. Lucas. All rights reserved. Notice Please send your bookmark file, references lists (pls identify which periodical database) and the brief virtual library exploring journal to my email account before 5/3 nicoleh.p.w@gmail.com ; put your student no. and your name on the subject line. nicoleh.p.w@gmail.com