Foundations of
Park & Recreation
Frederic Murray, MLIS
Instructional Services Librarian
Assistant Professor
Al Harris Library
SWOSU
Spring 2011
Today’s Class
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How to Access Class Web Page
– Review & email page to selves
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Search: Keywords & Boolean
– And, Or, Not
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Catalog Review
– Books on Wildfire: 2nd floor, last 5 years
– Ebrary - Ebooks
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Database
– Academic Search Premier/Environment Complete/CQ
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Journal Search/Periodical List
– Search “Jobs” in Parks & Recreation
Set Up Ebsco Accounts
– Create Alerts for Parks & Recreation
Library Instruction in the
Information Age
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A single current newspaper contains more
written and visual information than the
average person in the 17th Century was
likely to come across in their entire
lifetime. There are many areas of literacy
that all add up to Information Literacy:
Cultural, Visual, Media, Network,
Computer, Traditional Alphabetic Literacy,
and Library Instruction.
Library Instruction in the
Information Age
 New
Search Strategies are required.
 Critical evaluation is more important
than ever.
Define: Catalog, Database, Indexes
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A comprehensive list of the books,
periodicals, maps, and other materials in a
given collection.
A large, regularly updated file of digitized
information related to a specific subject or
field.
An alphabetically arranged list of headings
consisting of the personal names, places,
and subjects treated in a specific work.
Library Web Page
Information Silos
Catalog
Databases
Catalog
Catalog
Books/E-books
Videos
Worldcat
Databases
Databases
EBSCO
LexisNexis
Ovid
Search Techniques
 Keyword
 Basic
Boolean
Keywords
Flexible terms
 Easy searches
 Less accurate
searches
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Identifying Keywords
 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, indexes, and
databases for information about your
subject.
Keyword Phrases
 Single

concept, multiple words
Some electronic resources require
keyword phrases be enclosed with
punctuation
– Quotation marks
– Parenthesis
Boolean
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AND = Narrow
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OR = Expand
NOT = Exclude
Useful Keywords/Phrases
outdoor recreation
 adventure programs
 wildlife, endangered species
 conservation, preservation
 natural disasters, wildfires
 wilderness survival, first aid, search &
rescue
 natural resources, natural resource
management
 game and fishing law, permits & licensing
 park services, park ranger
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Paper Topic
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Parks under Pressure: Conservation
or Recreation
Parks under Pressure:
Conservation or Recreation
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First, narrow down the topic
– Which Parks are you talking about? Urban,
State or Federal
– What kind of Pressures?
 Competing
Interests
 Focusing on:
– Economy
– Funding
– Land Use
– How parks are perceived by locals? Tourists?
Environmentalists? Hunters?
How “AND” is used
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AND (narrows)
– parks and issues
– parks and issues and hunters
Select three keywords…
Parks
Issues
Hunters
How “OR” is used
 OR
(expands)
– parks or “wildlife refugee”
– issues or trends
 AND
& OR together
– parks or ‘wildlife refugee” and issues
– issues or trends and parks
Select related terms…
“Urban
Parks”
Parks
“State
Parks”
Trends
Issues
Attitudes
Tourists
Hunters
Rangers
Search Strategy
 Endless
possibilities…
– Parks OR State Parks AND Issues AND Trends
– Urban Parks AND National Parks AND Rangers OR
Tourists
– State Parks AND Trends AND Tourists
Class Exercise
Keyword Building Exercise
Topic: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
 Thesaurus.com
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
BP
Corporations
Business
Technology
Drilling
Relief wells
Response
Responsibility
Politics
Databases
A
large, regularly updated file of
digitized information related to a
specific subject or field.
 This
is where we find Journal Articles
Useful Databases
 Academic
Search Premier
 Environment
 CQ
Complete
Researcher
 SPORTDiscus
Searching in Databases
 Keywords
with Boolean and
truncation
 Subject terms from thesaurus
 Limiters: date, peer reviewed, and
full text
Article Sources
General
Article and
Allied Health
Article Databases
Citations
Shriver Jr., Donald W. “Bosnia in Fear and
Hope .” World Policy Journal;
Summer2001, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p43, 11p
Formats: PDF - Portable Document Format
HTML - Hypertext Mark up
language
Citations
Shriver Jr., Donald W.
“Bosnia in Fear and
Hope.”
World Policy Journal;
Summer2001, Vol. 18
Issue 2, p43, 11p
PDF / HTML
Author/Article Title
Periodical Title
Date/Length
Format
Finding
Journals/Magazines/Periodicals
 In
the Library
 Online
Periodicals List Exercise
 Does
the library have access to this
article?
 Yes or No?
Resources
 Library
Catalog
 Ebrary
 Databases
 Periodicals
List
 Services
– Research Assistance
– Interlibrary Loan
– Off Campus Access
Thank You