Library Workshop

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Library Workshop
Early Experience in English Cert (ECE)
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What you will learn today

• How to search the teaching materials with the
  library catalogue
• Quick Search
• Advanced Search
• How to search for Media Resources

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Early Childhood Education Resources

• Materials available in different formats
• Reference Works
• Encyclopedia
• Dictionary
• Books

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Early Childhood Education Resources

• Journals
• Media Resources
• Video
• DVD/VCD
• Kits

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Library Catalogue
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Quick Search
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Quick Search

• Collection
• All Collections
• Central Teaching Resources Collection
• Media Resources Collection
• Serial Collection
• Town Centre Collection
• Search Option
• Author
• Title
• Subject
• Keywords (Author, Title, Subject, Publisher,
  Content Notes)

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Useful Keywords for Teaching English to Children

• Early childhood, preschool, elementary
• Kindergarten, nursery
• Study and teaching
• English language, Juvenile literature
• Reading, Activity programs
• Fiction, Fairy tales
• Alphabet, Phonetics, Pronunciation, Vocabulary

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Quick Search
Example Search Media Resources Collection
materials with keywords preschool and music
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Key information of library catalogue record

• Location
• Status
• Physical description and note

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• Search Hint
• Multiple words are searched as a phrase

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Exercise

• Search materials with title Gingerbread man in
• Central Teaching Resources Collection
• Town Centre Library Collection
• Media Resources Collection

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Advanced Search

• Multiple search terms
• Limit by specific collection, material type,
  language
• Combination of searches

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Advanced Search

• Search specific items with combinations and
  limiting criteria

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Advanced Search

• Combination Search
• AND, OR, AND NOT
• Limiting Criteria
• Collection
• Location (Model Libraries, TCL)
• Material Type (Book, DVD/VCD, Interactive Media,
  Kit)
• Language (Chinese, English)
• Year
• Readership Level (Preschool, Primary, Juvenile )

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Advanced Search
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Advanced Search Hints

• Multiple words are searched together as one
  phrase
• preschool English (preschool English)
• Truncation
• Use for 1-5 characters
• child child, children, childhood
• Use for open-ended truncation
• story story, storytelling, storysharing
• Use ? for any single character in specified
  position
• wom?n woman, women
• Use shortcuts
• t(music) and s(juvenile) and a(chan)

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Advanced Search Example

• Find library media resources on teaching English
  language to children with storytelling
• Identify Keywords
• English
• Stor (story, stories, storytelling)
• Child (child, children, childhood)
• Kid (kid, kids)
• Preschool
• Nursery
• Study and learning

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Advanced Search Example

• Formulate search query
• English AND (stor) AND (child or kid or
  nursery or preschool) AND (study and teaching)

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Advanced Search Example

• Modify the Search if needed
• Limit to Media Resources Collection

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Exercise

• Find library resources of English language for
  children with music or songs
• Modify the search for Media Resources only
• Further limit the search to Kits only
• Search
• (English language) AND (child or kid or nursery
  or preschool) AND (music or song)

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Browse the Media Resources Collection

• Library Homepage gt Services Collections gt Media
  Resources Collection

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