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1. You are working at the reference desk at San José’s King Library. A young man
(apparently, an undergraduate student) walks in and asks, “How can I find some
books in the library on Latinos in film?” (Note: be sure to help him find some useful
subject headings to search under).
See Print Screen for results
1ST Search
Latinos in Film
SJ Library Catalog online
RESULTS
Book
English is broken here : notes on cultural fusion in the Americas / Coco Fusco.
Crowding out Latinos : Mexican Americans in the public consciousness / Marco
Portales.
VHS
The bronze screen [videorecording] : 100 hundred years of the Latino image in
Hollywood / Bronze Screen
2nd Search
Actors actresses = keyword
Chicano collection = Print material
Location = sjsu
RESULTS
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The first search was okay – but I thought I could do better – so I jumped into the
MODIFY button to tweak what I wanted. I see three books that – judging simply by
the title – might be very helpful to the young man (#1,3,5 in picture above)
2. A student has been told by his professor that the journal Hamadryad might have
some good articles for his biology paper. He would like to know what kinds of
articles might appear in this journal, where it is indexed, and if it is peer-reviewed
(refereed).
1ST Search
Looked under the BIO’s
SJSU Electronic Journal Index
Chose Biology & Psychology – Ulrich’s Web
RESULTS: could not log in to Ulrich’s Web
2nd Search
Hamadryad = journal name (so)
EBSCO (Academic Search premier)
RESULTS: no results found
3rd Search
Clicked on PUBLICATIONS Tab / then “H” / no listing.
RESULTS: no results found
4th Search
Hamadryad = journal name (so)
Health & life science
BIOLOGICAL Abstracts
Journals @ OVID full text
Clicked “journal” tab, typed in hamadryad, no results
Okay – stumped at number two – going back to it later with fresh outlook – must be
missing something basic!
5th Search
H (searched for hama…)
SJSU Electronic Journals Index
RESULTS: nothing!
6th Search – tried Science Direct – still no luck! I feel like I’m missing something silly
but will go at it again – NOT through a science journal list though ;)
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7th Search
Searched All “H’s” in EBSCO
RESULTS: no such luck! (lol – though I did come across the Helsinki monitor  and
Holzforschung: International Journal of the Biology, Chemistry, Physics, & Technology
of Wood (which sounds really cool for my sculptor friend!)
8th Search
Ha! Finally thought to look in the SJSU
periodical list – of course, no luck….
Giving up! Link number 2 in google. 
Now that I know it’s real – and not a misspelling – lemme try again
(have I mentioned how frustrated I am at stinking so bad on
this?? Thank god I jumped ahead and the last five are MUCH
easier!!!
Am giving up – please just post how these were searched for – I can’t spend any more
time on this and still get my reading and the last two ones I struggled with finished! 
sorry!
3. Who was People magazine’s sexiest man alive in 2000? Brad Pitt
Mark
1. Jennifer Aniston: The Friends star said I do to a hefty new TV paycheck--and the Sexiest Man Alive. (The 25 Most
Intriguing People 2000)(Brief Article). People Weekly 54.27 (Dec 25, 2000): p93. (278 words) From InfoTrac OneFile.
1ST Search
People = Journal Title
READER’S GUIDE FULL-TEXT
Sexiest man alive = keyword
From 2000 to 2001
RESULTS: none
2nd Search
To ULRICH WEB – Advanced Search
ULRICH WEB – Advanced Search
Title (keyword) = sexiest man alive
2000 = keyword
(no luck)
RESULTS: no results found
Try again tomorrow with actual worksheet in front of me. (10 pm after class 9/29)
3rd Search YEAH! At least I found the right magazine!
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To finish search – went back and put “sexiest man alive in 2000” (no quotes) in
KEYWORD and “People weekly” in Journal (under advanced search)
I realize now that the difficulty I’m having is not know the “true title” of it – and while I’ve
stayed away from google so I can struggle – I would have gotten the “right” title more
quickly googling it! After that – it was easy!  kewords.
4. I heard about someone who just recently got her doctorate from Indiana University.
Her dissertation (which drew on Carol Kuhlthau’s research) dealt with information
seeking among college students. Can you help me find the full citation for this?
LINK to full citation: http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3156319
1ST Search
information seeking college students =
KEYWORD
indiana university = KEYWORD
RESULTS: none
2nd Search
Got into citation section – don’t know why
the JPGs don’t load for me off campus –
but makes it a tough database to read (Web
of Science – Citation Search = kuhlthau, c
PROQUEST digital dissertations
RESULTS: Got a list of 37 people who
cited her – but this doesn’t reference
dissertations – so ….lemme try
something else!
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Getting better!  With this search – I got it down to 6  woooohooo – almost there
It’s a “her” so I didn’t look at the guys’ dissertations
Opened up citation & abstract on the remaining – and did an “edit/find” for kuhlthau - went
backwards ! ha – then just read #1
PUBLICATION AAT 3156319
NUMBER
TITLE Thoughts, feelings, and actions: Quantitative comparisons of
interactions and relationships among three factors in college
students' information seeking
AUTHOR Cheng, Yungrang
It HAS to be this one – now where do I go to find quotes from Kuhlthau without buying
it? Not sure. Would I suggest this might be the one she had in mind – give it to her
(the patron) and if not – go hunting again????? Or would I hunt until I had no hair?
(okay – getting punchy!)
Added “college students” to keyword and came up with 1 result – Cheng! Then re-read
question and realized you simply want the full citation! That I can do  phew.
5. A patron phones you wanting to know in which California library (or libraries) she
might be able to find a DVD version of the famous Zapruder film of the Kennedy
assassination.
Could not answer
1ST Search
http://www.sjlibrary.org/services/request/ill.htm
I moved around a lot of links, beginning
with the Library catalog – and trying to “go
outward.
Went to OTHER OPTIONS - other Local & California Libraries
Then to: California
Clicked on keyword = zapruder kennedy assassination – and realized it only searched libraries –
not what was in them!
2nd Search
zapruder kennedy assassination = keyword any
Went to LINK+
field
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Listed three items: Abraham Zapruder Films the Assassination <= title/producer
(from clicking on one of the three links.
3rd Search
LOC – searched author/creator=zapruder
– looking into the three they had – no
mention of film.
RLG – no results under author = zapruder
No results under LOC – title = Image of an
Assassination
Can’t take it – giving up on this one again –
maybe tomorrow or next day I’ll try again.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (that would be me
growling!!! 
4th Search
I give up? Am sorry! I stink at this!
6. A smiling woman (who looks suspiciously like an MLIS student) approaches the
reference desk while you are sitting there and says, “I’d like to find an interesting
piece of fiction about a librarian. Could you help me, please?”
LIST to choose from FIRST:
Bevarly, Elizabeth
The Temptation of Rory Monahan
Bull, Molly Noble
Brides and Blessings
Conaway, James
America's Library
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Dereske, Jo
Miss Zukas in Death's Shadow
Dereske, Jo
Miss Zukas Series
Deveraux, Jude
An Angel for Emily
Gill, Bartholomew
Death in Dublin
Gillespie, John and Gilbert, Christine
Best Books for Children, Preschool through
the Middle Grades
Goodrum, Charles
A Slip of the Tong
Grossman, Lev
Codex
Litfinder
Stories/by genre/fiction Keyword = librarian
RESULT:
COOKE, JOHN MOHUN; OR, THE LAST DAYS OF
ESTEN
LEE AND HIS PALADINS.
Civil war time.
2nd Search
Backed out some stuff:
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But the 3rd results may NOT be about a librarian! There is a scene IN a library toward
the end.
Searched for “librarian = Works Subject” in advanced –
RESULTS: 90 ITEMS!!! Heck – I’d print the sucker and hand it to her
When I added “Works Type = fiction” came up with zero!!!!  okay – gonna cry.
Browsed by subject within this – no such luck although Women as Seaman looks
interesting!
Next Steps
Chose FICTION (genre) first – THEN typed in librarian. Oops over 11000 items – all in
poetry – switched to fiction again – 0 results.
New start: Gale Databases….
What do I read next? http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/alise_sjsu
Chose LIBRARIES as subject – 67 documents….I guess my next step would be to ask
the patron: what does “interesting” mean to you?? If it meant “adventure” – and I added
it to search, would find NONE. (no sci-fi either)
Added ADULTS only (unchecked kids/ya) (unchecked non-fiction)
TOTAL = 19 Titles (directly below question – above!)
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7. A graduate student comes into the library. She needs help researching
acetylcholinesterase and has heard that there are some excellent articles by Leo
Pezzementi on this topic. Locate the full citation for one of these articles.
SEE last screen in table a few lines down
1ST Search
Keyword = acetylcholinesterase
Author = pezzementi
Result: 1 article by atkins
2nd Search
Search by author = pezzementi
Firstsearch.oclc.org (articlefirst)
Web of science
Results: 4 articles by him alone, 3 others co-authored
8. Throughout my childhood, my mother used to quote the end of a poem: “Smiling, the
boy fell dead.” Do you know what poem that comes from and who wrote it?
1ST Search
Litfinder / Poem subsection
“Smiling, the boy fell dead” in basic search
Robert Browning: incident of the French camp
Wow – that one was spot on – am I goofing it up? Can’t believe I found one in
one try! (doing happy dance here – was getting downright saddened!)
9. A professor is interested in a classic psychological study carried out by a Dr.
Milgram. In this study, subjects were ordered to shock another person in the context
of a learning experiment, with the shocks becoming increasingly severe. Milgram
wrote several articles about this, but the professor specifically remembers that he
discussed the subjects’ “nervous laughter” in one of the abstracts. Help him find the
full citation for that particular article.
Here’s the citation:
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1ST Search
Webspirs - ovid
RESULTS: No records found
2nd Search
Repeated above search without SHOCK THERAPY
Found citation (directly below question – above)
10. I read something in the New York Times a couple of years ago about duct tape
curing warts. Please help me find the full text of this article! (and hurry – I think it’s
growing!)
ANSWER: Head of wart study thinks it has something to do with irritating the immune
system!  or –
**Search the Lexis/Nexis database using: search: DUCT TAPE (title) CHRISTINE
DIGRAZIA = author, major papers/general news
1ST Search
NYT Index (pqasb.pqarchiver
2nd Search
Changed the years  found it!
No results – but why it brought up a 1857
grand rally article makes me wanna get the
full text! 
Do I tell her to buy it from the site? For
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$3.95
1.
SECURITY MEMO; Duct Tape: The Cure for All Ills
... excuse to buy duct tape. What's it been ... few months since duct tape was last flying off store ...
October, the tape had a bigger comeback than ...View free preview
February 23, 2003 - By CHRISTINE DIGRAZIA (NYT) - New York and Region - News - 814 words
Went to National Newspaper Index – typed in “security memo duct tape the cure for all
ills (KEYWORD) no results
security memo duct tape the cure for all ills = title no results
search: DUCT TAPE (title) CHRISTINE DIGRAZIA = author,
results:
The New York Times, Feb 23, 2003 p1(L) col 01 (18 col in)
Duct Tape: The Cure for All Ills. (Connecticut Weekly Desk) Christine
Digrazia.
(this won’t give full text either though – I can do an “extended citation” on screen – or
have a citation only sent to my email.)
went to lexis/nexis next – Guided News Tab –
search: DUCT TAPE (title) CHRISTINE DIGRAZIA = author, major papers/general news
FOUND IT!
11. (worth twice as much) A high school student poses the following question to you:
“My parents are afraid that if I play violent video games it will make me violent. Is
this true?”
Please select one appropriate subject-specific index from among those on the
source list and carry out a search on this topic. Explain thoroughly the steps you
take, in terms of analyzing the concepts in this question; selecting an appropriate
database; identifying appropriate search terms; combining the search terms using
Boolean logic; viewing a few search results; and revising your search (if needed)
based on these results. Based on the material you find, what do you think is the
answer to this student’s question? If you could choose one other index to search,
which one would you choose and why?
ANSER TO STUDENT: While the majority of the articles reviewed tended to believe violent
video games enhanced / increased violence/aggression in behavior - the authors of the articles
also questioned the validity of the claim, wondering if other pre-existing aggressive traits played
a more active role in the person’s choice of game, and “choice?” to become more aggressive. It
seems there is a scientific leaning toward violent video games cause violence – and even
statistical data, but researchers are not fully confident with the studies as of yet.
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NEXT DATABASE: Definitely would choose a PSYCH info database to get hard data and
parameters to determine validity of research, crossing out of background factors or factoring in
of same.
PSYCH INFO type database will be chosen –
TERMS: behavior / affect of on / video games / teen / young adult / violence /
video games violence in teens / video games cause / affect of video games on
behavior (violence is a behavior….right?)
PhsychInfo and PsychArticles seemed too focused – went with OMNI – wilson’s 6
d/b covering humanities, science and social science (figure video game studies
might be across disciplines)
1st Search
Keyword: affect of video games on
Selected years 2000-2005
behavior
Reading briefs on Anderson article gave term: General Affective Aggression Model - also
– Barnette article pointed to frontal lobe changes from violent vs non-violent video
games (frontal handles behavior) but questioned still if aggression pre-cursor making
person more apt to become agressive
SEARCHED: Video game / Affect
Got 32 results Went back to search – checked ONLY FULL TEXT
15 results
added <NOT> violence violent aggress* to search string – came up with same 15
great quote from Antonietti (summed it up kind of!): THE PLAYING OF VIDEO GAMES
has increased dramatically over the past 30 years, a fact that has encouraged researchers to study
the behavioral, affective, and cognitive characteristics of the players. Video game users tend to
prefer competitive activities, challenges, science fiction movies, reading books (McClure &
Mears, 1984), and television viewing (Selnow, 1984). The playing of video games has been
associated with high levels of aggression (Anderson & Ford, 1986; Anderson & Morrow, 1995;
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Cooper & Mackie, 1986; Silvern & Williamson, 1987), hostility (Schutte, Malouff, Post-Gorden,
& Rodasta, 1988), impulsivity (Lin & Lepper, 1987), and anger (Mehrabian & Wixen, 1986) and
with low levels of prosocial behavior (Chambers & Ascione, 1987; Van Schie & Wiegman,
1997) and tolerance for frustration (Fling, Smith, Rodriguez, & Thornton, 1992). Introverted
people expressed a greater preference for video games than did extroverted individuals (Barnett
et al., 1997). Video game players scored higher on an Escape-Solitude Scale (a scale measuring
the tendency to abandon life-roles; Selnow, 1984) than infrequent players. Finally, habitual video
game players were found to be brighter (McClure & Mears, 1984), and practiced performance in
video games was associated with psychomotor abilities (Yuji, 1996) such as tracking (Bliss,
Kennedy, Turnage, & Dunlap, 1991) and with intelligence as measured by IQ tests (Rabbitt,
Banerji, & Szymansky, 1989). ANTIONETTi QUESTIONS this…
Another quote from Columbine Echoes Abstract: According to U.S. psychologist Dave
Grossman, violent video games that provide military-quality training at a young age are the main
culprit for the killings.
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