Welcome to Maryville College and the Lamar Memorial Library. This orientation is designed to familiarize yourself with resources you may need for Fall Semester. This WILL BE BENEFICIAL since your formal library instruction will not occur until the January Term. Please use this time to explore the library and its resources. We have provided you a map of the library to help with your exploration. ALSO,

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK ANY OF THE LIBRARIANS FOR HELP.

Professors will assign readings that are not found in your textbook. Many of those readings are kept in Reserve Files at the circulation desk. To locate an item on reserve you must get the Code Number of the reserve item. You will then be able to checkout the reserve item.

For the first survival skill, find which materials Roger Myers has put on Reserve for his students to read (Roger Myers is an Instructor and Head of Reference Services in the Library).

You may access Reserve information by:

You should now see a list of books and/or articles that Mr. Myers has put on reserve for Fall Freshmen Orientation. Record the names of the books or articles and their related codes (e.g. M1, Per1, or 362 M98d).

Title__________________________________________ Code__________________

Title__________________________________________ Code__________________

Title__________________________________________ Code__________________

Remember, the code is important because you will need this to obtain the book/article from Circulation. You will also need your Maryville College ID to check out reserve materials. Today, you do not need to check out the material.

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Next, you need to learn how to locate journal and newspaper articles for topics discussed in class assignments. These articles are very useful because they provide current information.

For fall semester, you may be asked to locate articles in journals and newspapers on current topics of interest. Although there are many resources available for this, we suggest you use the periodical database InfoTrac Web. This can be accessed in the library through McQuest. InfoTrac Web consists of nine individual databases. For this, use Expanded Academic ASAP.

For this survival skill:

Enter one of the following subject or keyword searches:

college students attitudes
college students housing
college students library orientation
college students social aspects

On the monitor, you should see a list of citations for journal and/or newspaper articles on your topic. Some of these will be available in full-text. Others will only provide an abstract of the article. Pick a citation that you find interesting and record the following information:

Subject Searched_________________________________________________________

Author of Article__________________________________________________________

Title of Article____________________________________________________________

Journal in Which Article Appears____________________________________________

Volume_________ Year___________ Pages_______________

Date of access (date you found the article)__________________________________

To continue this exercise, you need to find the article for the citation that you recorded above.

First, did InfoTrac indicate that our library owns the journal? To find this, look at the citation list on the screen. This icon (of a book and arrow) appearing with your search results indicates that the journal is available at the Maryville College Library. If the icon does not appear, we do not own the journal. If the citation does not have the icon , you will need to find another citation for a journal that we own.

Journals may be found in two places in our library. The most current issues (for example, the past three to six months) are shelved in alphabetical order in Current Periodicals (see map). Older issues are arranged in alphabetical order in Bound Periodicals (see map).

For this exercise, you do not need to obtain a copy of the article. However, make sure you can find the journal that contains your article. If you are confused or are having trouble finding your article, please ask one of the librarians for help.

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You may have a professor who will give you the assignment of discovering current topics of interest in the journal literature of a specific field. One of the best ways to discover this is to simply browse the journals of a specific area of study. To get better acquainted with current periodicals, go to Current Periodicals and choose one of the journal titles listed below. Browse the table of contents or the articles for 5 Current Topics. (Note: You do not use the computers for this exercise). (See map).

Adolescence
Astronomy
Journal of Athletic Training
UTNE Reader
Religious Studies Review
U.S. News and World Reports

Based on your browsing, list what you believe are the Current or "Hot" Topics being discussed in this journal's literature.

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For this exercise, let's suppose that your professor has asked you to find information on employment trends of graduates from liberal arts colleges who have written a senior thesis.

First, go into Search for Journal Literature on McQuest and choose Lexis-Nexis Universe.

Lexis-Nexis will now search for full-text newspaper articles that have information on employment trends of liberal arts graduates who have written a senior thesis.

How many documents were retrieved?________________________

Can you find an article that appeared in the The Washington Post on May 3, 1999 that discusses how Annapolis graduates defend their senior thesis? If you can.....

What is the title of the article?______________________________________

Who is the author (byline) of the article?____________________________________

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Maryville College has developed and adopted a Style Manual for Online Resources that is available on McQuest. This Guide will give you examples on how to cite articles from full-text databases like InfoTrac Web and Lexis-Nexis. The examples include MLA Style, APA Style, and Turabian.

Now, using the Style Manual for Online Resources found on McQuest, and using the information you found on InfoTrac Web about college students, construct a bibliographic citation in MLA Style.

(Hint - Go into the Style Manual for Online Resources found on the main menu of McQuest, click on Modern Language Association (MLA) Style, and look for the example given for InfoTrac Web: Full-Text Periodical Article).

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In order to locate a book on a topic of interest, you will need to use McQuest, Maryville College's Online Catalog. You may use McQuest to search for authors, titles, subjects, and keywords.

Go to the main menu of McQuest. To search the Library Catalog, click the mouse on the link Search the LIBRARY COLLECTION.

If you are looking for a book by a specific author, click on Author search.

If you know the title of a book, click on Title search.

For this lesson, see if our library has a book by the author Gerald Gibson (Dr. Gibson is the President of Maryville College). If we own this book, record the following information:

Title_________________________________________________________________

Call Number_______________________________________________

Now, what is the title and call number of the book shelved to the right of Dr. Gibson's (Hint - you will need to go downstairs to the main stacks and locate Dr. Gibson's book). Record the following:

Title__________________________________________________________________

Call Number___________________________________________________________

Now, go back and do another search for a book but this time, use the keyword search option on McQuest. Choose a topic that is of interest to you (for example, outdoor recreation, college students) and see if you can find a title that is relevant to your topic and located in the main stacks. Record the following

Title___________________________________________________________________

The three main Boolean operators are AND, OR, and NOT. These allow you to narrow or to broaden your searches.

Do this simple exercise to see how these Boolean operators work.

Go to McQuest, click on Search the Library Collection, and then, click on Keyword.

Enter the word dogs. How many entries did you receive? _____

Now, go back to your keyword search screen.

Enter dogs and cats. How many entries did you receive? _____

Go back to your keyword search screen again.

This time, enter dogs or cats. How many entries did you receive? _____

Finally, go back one more time to your keyword search.

This time, enter dogs not cats. How many entries did you receive? _____

As you can see from this simple exercise, Boolean operators allow you to refine your search. AND and NOT narrow your searches, while OR broadens your searches.

Truncation is another tool that you can use to broaden your searches. Truncation allows you to find roots of words that may provide you with additional information. Most databases use the same symbol for truncation—IT IS THE ASTERISK * (THE SYMBOL ABOVE THE NUMBER 8 ON YOUR KEYBOARD). Try this truncation exercise to get familiar with how this works.

Go to McQuest, click on Search the Library Collection, and then, click on Keyword

Enter the word environment. How many entries did you receive? _____

Now, go back to your keyword search screen and enter environment* (Make sure you include the asterisk). Now, how many entries did you receive? _____

By adding the asterisk to environment (e.g. environment*), McQuest has searched any root of the word. This includes environments, environmental, environmentalism.

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Research on any topic generally calls for a definition of the topic or the main concepts associated with the topic. A great place for finding these definitions is in the subject encyclopedias and dictionaries found in Reference (see map for location).

For this lesson, see if you can locate a subject encyclopedia or dictionary in your field of study (Hint - on the first Reference shelf, there is a plastic tray with a guide entitled "Selected Reference Books".)

Once you have located a source, record the following:

Title____________________________________________________________________

Call Number_____________________________________________________________

Publisher________________________________________________________________

Number of Volumes_______________________________________________________

Are the entries in this source arranged in alphabetical order?   Yes_____No_____

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Which Librarian did you meet? ____________________________________________

Searching the Internet

As you may have guessed by now, you can use the McQuest terminals to search the Internet via Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer.

In either browser you will need to choose a Search Engine to search the Internet. A Search Engine is the device that browses the Web looking for Subjects or Keywords that are contained on Web pages. It is useful to experiment with different Search Engines because the different engines search different parts of the Web. If you are unfamiliar with search engines, we recommend Alta Vista (http://www.altavista.com), Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com), or Google (http://www.google.com) as starting points.

For this last survival skill, go to any McQuest terminal and go into Netscape or Internet Explorer by clicking on the "Search" Icon at the top of the screen. Here, you will choose a search engine. Look for Alta Vista, Hot Bot, Google, Yahoo, or any other Search engine that you prefer. You will click on the search engine you want to use. This will bring up a white box where you will enter the subject or keywords that you want to search. When you perform a search, the search engine will retrieve a list of blue, underlined hyper-links that will lead you to web sites containing your search terms. Click on the blue, underlined text to view the page.

What Did You Find?

Review one of the Web pages that from your search. Record the following:

HTTP Address (Also Called the Uniform Resource Locator or URL) found at the top of the screen __________________________________________________________

Title of the Web Page______________________________________________________

Name of Organization Publishing the Page____________________________________

Date You Accessed the Page (Remember, this is important!)_______________________

You may go directly into a Web page if you know the Uniform Resource Locator or URL You have seen these--they usually start with http://www......

To go to an URL, click the mouse inside the Location box at the top of the page (where the current URL is located). Once your cursor is inside the Location box, you can delete the current URL and enter the URL of the site you wish to visit.

Enter the following Uniform Resource Locator/URL: http://www.loc.gov

What is this Web site?____________________________________________________

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The periodical databases that you used for this library orientation are accessible from any computer that is connected to the Maryville College Network. This means that you can use these databases from your dorm room (if you have a network card) or from the computer lab in the Sutton Science Building. All you need to remember is the URL for McQuest....

Once you are on the main page of McQuest, select Search for Journal Literature. This will give you access to Lexis-Nexis Universe, InfoTrac Web, JSTOR, ERIC (Educational Resources Online), and other databases that you will need to do college level research.

Printing from Computers in the Library

You may print full-text articles and web pages found on the Internet from the computers in the library. The charge is 5 Cents per page. This charge is the same as copying an article from a print journal.

*** RESPONSIBLE USE OF LIBRARY COMPUTERS ***

As students of Maryville College, you have access to the computers in the Maryville College Library as long as you use them in a responsible manner. Please remember these guidelines for responsible use:

Computers in the Maryville College Library are intended to support and facilitate teaching and research. Academic work by students, faculty, and staff takes precedence over all other uses of the computers. The primary use of these resources is for work related to academics. All other uses are considered secondary.