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Gathering Materials
Stephen E. Lucas
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Using Your Own Knowledge
and Experience
Your personal experiences can
sometimes supply many
supporting materials for your
speeches.
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Library Resources
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Librarians
Catalogue
Periodical indexes
Newspapers
Reference works
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Catalogue
A listing of all the books, periodicals,
and other resources owned by a library.
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NFU E-Catalogue
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Periodical Database
A research aid that catalogues
articles from a large number of
journals or magazines.
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Periodical Database
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Database
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ABI/Inform Database
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Sample Result-Newspaper Database
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Abstract
A summary of a magazine or journal
article, sometimes written by someone
other than the original author.
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Reference Work
A work that synthesizes a large
amount of related information for
easy access by researchers.
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Types of Reference Works
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Encyclopedias
Yearbooks
Dictionaries
Quotation books
Biographical aids
Atlases and gazetteers
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Internet Search Aids
• Search Engines
• Metasearch Engines
• Virtual Libraries
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Search Engine
A search aid such as Google that
indexes Web pages and checks them
for sites that match a researcher’s
request.
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Metasearch Engine
A search aid that sends a
researcher’s request to several
search engines at the same time.
Dogpile www.dogpile.com
MetaCrawler www.metacrawler.com
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Virtual Library
A search aid that combines Internet
technology with traditional library
methods of cataloguing and assessing
data.
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Invisible Web
The multitude of Web databases
and other resources that are not
indexed by search engines.
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Evaluating Internet
Documents
• Authorship
• Sponsorship
• Recency
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Bookmark
A feature in a Web browser that
stores links to sites so they can be
easily revisited.
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Organizing Bookmark
• How to organize
your bookmark?
• Creating category
• Sorting links
• Import/Export
bookmark file
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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