The Library & The
Internet as Research
Tools
Charity I. Mulig
RESEARCH TOOLS
• Library/Bibliothecal tools
• Communication/Linguistic Tools
• Statistical Tools
The Library
• a place in which literary, musical,
artistic, or reference materials (as
books, manuscripts, recordings, or
films) are kept for use but not for
sale
• a collection of such materials
Library Sections
– Card Catalogue Section
– Periodical Section
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Primary vs. Secondary Publications
Book Section
Computer Section
Vertical File Section
General Reference Section
Searching Through The Scientific Literature
TIP # 1:
Obtain a general broad picture of the
topic by reading general references
then refer to the specific references
cited at the end of each publication.
Searching Through The Scientific Literature
TIP # 2:
Develop a way of recording and
collecting information. Record the
important details about the
publications used.
Searching Through The Scientific Literature
TIP # 3:
Summarize important references and
then include them in your file.
Library Classification Systems
The Dewey Decimal Classification System
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books on similar subjects are grouped together by means of their call
numbers.
Each class is further subdivided at the hundred divisions and the the
thousand sections. Numbers are placed after a decimal point to further
identify material more specifically by subject.
The main Dewey Decimal classes are:
000 Generalities
100 Philosophy and psychology
200 Religion
300 Social Sciences
400 Language
500 Natural sciences and mathematics
600 Technology (Applied sciences)
700 The arts (fine and decorative)
800 Literature and rhetoric
900 Geography and history
Making Sense of a Call Number
142.780973
C826e
100
140
142
142.7
142.78
142.780973
Existential America by George Cotkin
Philosophy & psychology
Specific philosophical schools
Critical philosophy
Phenomenology
Existentialism
About Existentialism in America (0973 at the end means history and
description about America)
Library Classification Systems
Library of Congress Classification
• begins with two to three letters followed by
numbers
A - General Works
B - Philosophy, Psychology,
Religion
C - Auxiliary Sciences of History
D - History: General & Outside the
Americas
E - History: United States
F - History: United States Local &
America
G - Geography, Anthropology,
Recreation
H - Social Sciences
J - Political Science
K - Law
L - Education
M - Music
N - Fine Arts
P - Language and Literature
Q - Science
R - Medicine
S - Agriculture
T - Technology
U - Military Science
V - Naval Science
Z - Library Science & Information
Resources
Example
ML3790
S5M62003
This classification is for a book about the music
industry called This Business of Music: the Definitive
Guide to the Music Industry.
INTERNET vs. WEB : Are they the same?
INTERNET
• A global NETWORK
connecting millions of
COMPUTERS
• decentralized
WEB
• A system of internet servers
that support specially
formatted documents
(HTML-HyperText Markup
Language) that supports
links to other documents
• way of accessing information
over the medium of the
Internet. It is an informationsharing model that is built on
top of the Internet
Using Search Mechanisms
If you want to .
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Browse a broad topic
Search for a narrow
topic
Search largest
amount of Internet
(meta-search engines)
Search only reviewed
sites
Browse educational
topics and resources
Search specific types
of databases
Search for
educational materials
and reviews
Yahoo
Lycos
Google
www.yahoo.com/
AltaVista
www.lycos.com/
Excite
www.google.com
Go (Infoseek)
www.altavista.com/
www.excite.com/
http://www.go.com/
Metacrawler
Ask Jeeves
All the Web (Fast Search)
http://www.metacrawler.com/
www.askjeeves.com
http://www.alltheweb.com/
Argus Clearninghouse
About.com/Mining Co.
www.clearinghouse.net/
http://www.about.com/
Schrock’s Guide
Blue Web’n
Connections +
http://school.discovery.com/schro
ckguide/
Switchboard
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/
bluewebn/
Gov Spot
http://www.mcrel.org/resources/
links/hotlinks.asp
Research-It!
www.switchboard.com/
http://www.govspot.com/
www.itools.com/research-it/
K-12 Weblinks Database
EvaluTech
FREE
www.itrc.ucf.edu/k12db/
www.evalutech.sreb.org/
www.ed.gov/free/
A Well-Lighted Place for Kids
http://www.computerlearning.org/
WellLite.htm
Internet Search Tools Quick Reference Guide
And
Or
Not
Google
Alta Vista
www.google.com
(Simple Search)
www.altavista.co
m
(Automatically
includes "and"
between terms)
(do a separate
search)
cats –wild
+cats +pets
Infoseek
Lycos
Yahoo
www.excite.com
www.go.com
www.lycos.com
www.yahoo.com
cats AND pets
+cats +pets
+cats +pets
+cats +pets
Use Advanced
Search
+cats –wild
+cats +pets
cats kittens
cats OR kittens
cats, kittens
+cats –wild
cats AND NOT
wild
+cats –wild
Use Advanced
Search
+cats –wild
“pet care”
“pet care”
“pet care”
(cats or kittens)
AND
NOT wild
Automatic
suffixes
N/A
Use Advanced
Search
N/A
N/A
N/A
cat*
N/A
N/A
Use Advanced
Search (within
25 words)
N/A
Exact
“pet care”
“pet care”
phrase
Complex
N/A
Use Advanced
Search
Truncation
N/A
Wild Card
Proximity
cat*
wom*n
N/A
mary~lamb
(within 10
words)
Searching
Excite
+cats –wild
“pet care”
COPYRIGHTS and others
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Copyrights
APA
MLA
Guidelines
Evaluating Internet Resources
Evaluation of Research Papers
SOURCES
• Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary
http://mw1.meriam-webster.com/dictionary/library
• University Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/howdoi/callnumber.html
• About.com: Geography
http://geography.about.com/library/congress/bllc.htm
• internet.com(Webopedia)
•http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/Web_vs_Inte
rnet.asp
•Intel Teach to the Future 2004