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ENGLISH 101
Writing
Welcome to Kelly Library! At the request of your English instructor, the librarians
are pleased to provide instruction which will help you find library materials on the topic
you have chosen or been assigned.
The components you will need to complete include:
1) The lecture session, where professional library staff members will teach you
how to use the catalog, as well as other reference tools and Internet search
engines.
2) In addition, your instructor may require you to work on an exercise in which you
will find five sources related to your research topic. This exercise will include a
mix of books, periodical articles, newspaper articles and a web site.
We hope to build on what you have learned about using library resources in ETLA 100:
Transitions. If you have not taken a Transitions I class, or are unfamiliar with Kelly Library,
the staff encourages you to look around the library and ask questions. Also, please do not
hesitate to ask a Circulation Desk staff member or librarian for assistance in using or
locating resources in the library.
NAVIGATING THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE
Using a college library may be a little different than finding material in your high school
library. A college or university library is usually larger and has access to many more
materials than your typical high school library. Just remember that if you have questions,
we are here to help you. One goal for our session today is to help you become familiar with
using a college library. We will be discussing how to navigate the library webpage as well
as showing you how to use some of the resources.
Remember: The library staff is your best resource. If you are not finding what you need,
please ask a library staff member for help.
You will need to get to the library webpage to access the resources that we will be
discussing today. Simply click on the Internet Explorer icon, and type in this address:
library.ehc.edu. This URL address will take you straight to the library homepage.
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FINDING MATERIAL IN THE ONLINE CATALOG
The online catalog (also sometimes called HAL or the opac), contains the holdings of its
four members’ libraries. It’s easy to use; see the examples below.
The first screenshot shows a keyword search, and the second screen shows a record for an
item in the library’s collection and includes basic bibliographic (identification) information.
An alternative way to search is subject searching. Subject searching uses a controlled
vocabulary of words and phrases; sometimes it is hard to figure out what they are (that’s
why librarians are here to help). If one way doesn’t work, try the other, and if you are not
finding relevant material, please ask a librarian for assistance.
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FINDING MATERIAL IN ONLINE DATABASES
Kelly Library subscribes to many online databases. For this class, we will work primarily
with three databases: Biography in Context, General OneFile and one of our online
newspaper databases (Newspaper Source Plus). The example below is from
Biography in Context which contains over 600,000 biographies on more than 500,000
people gathered from more than 170 award-winning Gale reference sources.
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General OneFile contains a mixture of popular and scholarly periodical articles and is
mainly full-text. It is a good place to begin looking for articles. Below is an example from
General OneFile. Notice the choice of limiters on the left side of the screen. I have
limited the search by Magazines and Full Text
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What do you do if an article is not full-text in this database? You need to check the E Journals by Title list. You can find a link to this on the main library page under the
tab for Books, Articles, & More. If your journal or newspaper in not full text in the
database that you are searching, you can find out if it is full text in other databases. See
example below.
Finding Newspaper Articles
There are a couple of ways to locate newspaper articles in Kelly Library. One way is
through databases: Kelly Library subscribes to several sources that contain an assortment
of full-text newspaper articles, such as America’s Newspapers, Factiva, LexisNexis
Academic and Newspaper Source Plus. The other way is to click the Journal
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Articles and Databases or Newspaper Articles on the library homepage. Below is an
example from the Newspaper Source Plus database.
Citation tools in this database are shown below.
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Finding Sites on the Internet
It is very likely that an individual, college, institution or professional or advocacy
organization may have created a web site containing information on your subject. Google
is the giant search engine that towers over the rest, but there are some other good search
ones: Ask.com (www.ask.com), Bing (www.bing.com) Dogpile (www.dogpile.com/),
Excite (www.excite.com/), and Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com/). The ipl2 (www.ipl2.org/) is
not a search engine; it is a web site that lists thousands of other web sites that have been
reviewed before they are included. You may also want to try the advanced search mode
in Google and limit your search to an .edu (or another domain), or use Google Scholar
(scholar.google.com/).
You can find valuable information, or information that is inaccurate. So, when you find
material on your topic, here are a few questions to ask yourself as you evaluate the site. Is
the page signed by a person or attributed to an organization? Is the site affiliated with a
university or professional organization? Does the information presented seem in line with
material you have already located, or does it seem unbelievable? Has it been updated
recently, or is the information several years old? Does the site contain many typos and
grammar errors? Widener University’s Wolfgram Library has a good tutorial on
evaluating web sites, in which the content of the Martin Luther King.org and The King
Center’s sites are analyzed. SUNY-Albany’s University Libraries has a good web
evaluation site too at: http://library.albany.edu/usered/eval/evalweb/. Also, check out
evaluation sites under the Research Tips area on the library web page.
Below is an example of a search using Google on “Serena Williams” that has the limiter
of site:.org
The Serena Williams Foundation
www.theserenawilliamsfoundation.org/
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Remember: The library staff is your best resource. If you are not finding what you need,
please ask a library staff member for help.
KELLY LIBRARY PUBLIC SERVICES STAFF
Circulation Staff
Reference Librarians
Adam Alley
Jennifer Bassett
David Lyons
Holly McCormick
Janice Snead
Lorraine Abraham (director)
Jane Caldwell
Patty Greany
Jody Hanshew
Janet Kirby
If you need help locating information or using any library equipment, please ask one of the
public services staff members for assistance. We’re your best resource!
Generally, a professional librarian is on reference duty 8am-9pm Monday-Thursday, 8am5pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday and 2pm-9pm Sunday.
www.library.ehc.edu
276.944.6208
askalibrarian@ehc.edu
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ENGLISH 101
Writing Worksheet
NAME: ___________________________
TOPIC: __________________________________________
*** The completed worksheet is due to Professor Norris on Friday,
February 6, 2015
To help you remember the material demonstrated in class, please complete the worksheet
below. Please look for biographical information on a person that you are interested in
researching.
1) Use the online catalog to find a book or any other item (such as a video, DVD, CD,
etc.) on your topic. List the following information for your material.
Author/editor: ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Title: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Place of publication: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Publisher: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Copyright date: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Call Number: __________________________________________________________________________________________________
2) Using the database Biography in Context, find one of the following sources on your
person of interest: Academic Journal Article, Reference Book Entry, Magazine Article,
Newspaper Article or a Website. Using the citation tool in that database, enter the MLA
citation below.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
3) Find a periodical article by using General OneFile. List the following information for
the article.
Author of article: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Title of article: ______________________________________________________________________________________
Title of periodical/journal/magazine: ____________________________________________________________
Date, volume and issue numbers and pages of article: __________________________________________
Is the article full-text? Yes___ no___.
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4) Newspaper article on your topic from an online source (America’s Newspapers,
Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, or Newspaper Source Plus).
Author of article:________________________________________________________________________________
Title of article:__________________________________________________________________________________
Title of newspaper:______________________________________________________________________________
Date, section and pages of the article:______________________________________________________________
Title of online newspaper database and search terms used:_____________________________________
5) Web site related to your topic.
Title of web site:_______________________________________________________________________________
Author or sponsoring organization:________________________________________________________________
Date of web site:_______________________________________________________________________________
URL address (please write legibly)________________________________________________________________
Search engine and search terms you used:________________________________________________________
Bonus Question: (worth 10 points)
Give a brief evaluation of the web site you found in # 5. Use the evaluation tips
(accuracy, attribution, authority and currency) on p. 7 of your handout, and list a
solid, thoughtful reason on why it was a good (or bad) web site.