ECED - 4423
Frederic Murray
Assistant Professor
MLIS, University of British Columbia
BA, Political Science, University of Iowa
Instructional Services Librarian
Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

• Approach as the hunt for a right answer….
OR
• Process of evaluating different resources & coming up with your own interpretation…..

Internet – global system of interconnected computer networks using protocol suite
(TCP/IP)
World Wide Web- Content found therein
Search Engines-Applications

Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
• Process of Academic Research
• Tools of Scholarship

• Data comes about through research, creation, gathering, and discovery.
• Information has context. Data is turned into information by organizing it so that we can easily draw conclusions. Data is also turned into information by
"presenting" it, such as making it visual or auditory.
• Knowledge has the complexity of experience, which come about by seeing it from different perspectives. This is why training and education is difficult - one cannot count on one person's knowledge transferring to another. Knowledge is built from scratch by the learner through experience. Information is static, but knowledge is dynamic as it lives within us.
• Wisdom is the ultimate level of understanding. As with knowledge, wisdom operates within us. We can share our experiences that create the building blocks for wisdom, however, it need to be communicated with even more understanding of the personal contexts of our audience than with knowledge sharing.
Cleveland H. "Information as Resource", The Futurist, December 1982 p. 34-39

“Often, the distinctions between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom continuum are not very discrete, thus the distinctions between each term often seem more like shades of gray, rather than black and white.”
Shedroff, N. (2001). "An overview of understanding" in Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Saul Wurman. Indianapolis: Que.

Content
• Books
• Articles
• Journals
• Citations
• WWW
Tools
• Catalogs
• Databases
• Lists
• Indexes
• Search Engines

• Resource for full text/citation journal articles

• Education Research Complete
• ERIC (EBSCOhost)
• ERIC - Educational Resources
Information Center
• Family and Society Studies
Worldwide

• ILL gives all SWOSU students, faculty, and staff members a fast and convenient way to obtain materials that are not available in the SWOSU
Libraries' collection.
• Services: Document Delivery: ILL: Articles

• Boolean
– And
– OR
– Not
• Keywords
• i.e.
– Play Methods
– Education
– Early Education
– Childhood
– Development

• AND = Narrow • NOT = Exclude
• OR = Expand

• Connect keywords only
• Must be placed between keywords
• AND
– Narrows your search
• OR
– Expands your search with synonymous terms
• NOT
– Excludes words from your search
– If used too much, it can work against you!

• Identify the significant terms and concepts that describe your topic from your thesis statement or research question.
• These terms will become the key for searching catalogs, databases and search engines for information about your subject.

– Play Methods
– Education
– Early Education
– Childhood
– Development
– Outcomes
– Classroom Materials
– Special Education
– Games

Synonyms / Antonyms
– Play Methods
– Education
– Early Education
– Childhood
– Development
– Outcomes
– Classroom Materials
– Special Education
– Games
– Curriculum
Boolean: And/Or/Not
Create a search string using synonyms or antonyms from the key word list.
Write it on the board !

• Play Methods
• Early Education and Curriculum
• Education and Children and Play
• Play Methods and Early Education and
Outcomes

145 Databases 27,000 Online
12,000 Physical

• Education Research Complete
• ERIC (EBSCOhost)
• ERIC - Educational Resources
Information Center
• Family and Society Studies
Worldwide

• Full Text
• Peer Review
• Folders
• Alerts
• Email
• Citations
– Cited References
– Times Cited in Database

145 Databases 27,000 Online
12,000 Physical

Periodical List – Early Childhood Journals
• Phi Delta Kappan
– Academic Search Complete
• Early Childhood Education Journal
– Education Research Complete
Remember:
We have 39,000
Journals in the Library!
• Early Childhood Research & Practice
– DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
•
• Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education
Education Research Complete
• Journal of Early Intervention
– CINAHL Complete
Can you find/search/use these..?

• Locate the journal
in the Periodical List
• Identify Database
• Search the journal using these terms:
Education and Children and Play

• Locate a full text article using the search terms Education and Childhood and Play. Use the database ERIC
• Create a Folder for this Class
– Play Methods & Materials
• Archive article in Folder
• Email article to yourself

• Develop a good search query/string
• Use the Relevant Databases
• Use the Periodicals List to find
Relevant/Specific Journals

• Full Text
• Keywords in Abstracts
• Bibliographies/Reference Lists *
• Create Personal Accounts Ebsco/Ovid
• Use Interlibrary Loan (if needed)
• RefWorks

• Contact me:
• Frederic Murray
• 774-7113
• frederic.murray@swosu.edu