Honors 110 Library Workshop

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Honors 110 Library Workshop

• Sue Cody

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Rules of the Game

• Get a partner, name your team
• One person operates the keyboard, the other
  answers for the team
• Work together to figure it out!

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Search the library catalog

• Do a KEYWORD search on
• INFORMATION SOCIETY
• How many items come up?
• What order are they listed in?

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Search the library catalog

• Do a KEYWORD search on
• INFORMATION and SOCIETY
• How many items come up?
• Why is it different from the first search?
• What are the subject headings on the first item?

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Search the library catalog

• How many books does the library have by Theodore
  Roszak?
• Where is the first one located?

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Finding Materials by Call No.

• LC Call numbers are alpha-numeric
• First number is a whole number
• Subsequent numbers are decimals
• Put the cards in order

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Search the library catalog

• What does the movie Sneakers have to do with
  information?
• What formats does the library have for this film?

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Search the library catalog

• Does the library have this article?
• Harrison, William B. Closing the Digital Divide
  Global Information. Vital Speeches of the Day
  68.19 (2002)606-608.

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Borrowing materials

• What is the loan period for books for
  undergraduates?

• How can I renew books?

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Searching for articles

• Search the Research Databases
• In InfoTrac, how many articles come up with a
  keyword search on
• INFORMATION SOCIETY AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
• What magazine is the first article from?

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Searching for articles

• What is the first Best Bets database for
  Communication Studies?
• How many articles come up with a keyword search
  on
• INFORMATION SOCIETY AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
• Does the library have the first one?

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Getting Help

• How many ways can you Ask a Librarian?
• When is the next Drop-In Clinic?
• How many days this semester is the library
  CLOSED?

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My Library Record

• Set your PIN
• Remote Access to Databases ERes
• See what you have checked out
• See when things are due
• Renew items
• Place a hold on items checked out by someone else.

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From the Reading

• What was missing from the UT-Austin undergraduate
  library?
• How would you like such a library?
• Complete the quote
• The library is not so much a space where books
  are held as where ___________.