Or, how to use the library to get
the most out of your college
career!
Periodicals
• Popular Magazines: General interest articles
News, hobbies, business, general information
and entertainment. Photos and stories.
Examples are: Time, Carolina Gardener,
Bloomburg Business Week, People.
• Scholarly journals: Characteristics are peer
reviewed articles, footnotes and references,
educational orientation. Examples are: Nursing
Magazine, Journal of Developmental Education.
Google anyone?
You have to determine what is real…
• Anyone can put anything on the web, true or
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not, as long as they pay for a website.
To determine which sites to use for research
look at the endings of the htpp address:
(Best  are education www.library.csi.cuny.edu,
non-profits www.scribblingwomen.org,
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• and government sites www.cia.gov
Other reliable online resources:
• Dot coms are commercial sites as are dot net.
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They have to be evaluated for validity. News
resources, magazines and scholarly journals
that are available online are acceptable
resources: www.scientificamerican.com
www.abc.net.au (note this is abc news in
Australia) www.guardian.co.uk (and this is news
from Britain)
• www.huffingtonpost.com (a usenet site
offers links to other resources—some of which
may be blogs etc. so look at where the
resource came from.)
Verify your resource
• modernsurvivalblog.com (Blogs are people’s
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opinions. If footnoted and linked to scholarly
journals, it is probably bona fide. Otherwise,
pass.
Never use wikipedia.org as it is written by lay
people and has misinformation.
NCLive and Sirs offer website links that have
been vetted for authenticity. These are the best
resources, and available through your library!
Plagiarism
• Is using material as your own without giving
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credit to the source. If you cut & paste direct
works or summarize an author’s words or ideas
you must acknowledge the original author by
citing where you got the information.
Software can now find passages from the web.
Buying or using another person’s term paper is
the worst example of plagiarism and carries
harsh penalties. To avoid plagiarism…
Give credit where it is due…
• Everything written, photographed & drawn is copyright
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© protected, even on the web!
You cannot cut and paste material without proper
footnotes and work sited information. If it is found
online, give the web address of the page you are taking
information from (you can cut & paste this from the well
at the top of the page.)
Books have the copyright details on the inside of the first
page, usually. Magazines list them on the editorial
standard page.
You must use quotes around any non-paraphrased text.
Usually no more than 1/10th of a work can be used
directly.
NC LIVE and NCknows
• NC LIVE Online Database Provides:
• 29,000 eBooks
• 18,000 full text journals, magazines, newspapers (including Wall Street Journal)
• 400 videos (including PBS Videos Online!)
• Thousands of images and maps (SimplyMap database)
• Interactive tests and tools
• Auto Repair (Auto Repair Reference Center)
• Business & Investment Tools
• Health and Medicine (CINAHL w/full-text, PsycInfo, PubMed, MEDLINEplus)
• History & Biography
• Hobbies & Interests
• Images & Art
• College and Career Preparation (Career Library, LearningExpress Library)
• Literature & Literary criticism
• Entrepreneurial Information
• Genealogy and Family History (HeritageQuest)
• Primary Source Documents (ABC-CLIO)
• Lesson Plans (Searchasaurus, PBS Video Collection)
• Reference (Gale Virtual Reference Collection, ReferenceUSA)
• 999 eAudio Books
• North Carolina and U.S. government sites and information
• E-books
• NCknows offers a reference librarian to help you 24/7 and will
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send a transcript to your email of all the information you have
discovered through this resource—your own personal librarian!
Also SIRS Facts on File and Anatomy TV (library access only for the
latter)
Other resources…
Books, encyclopedias, reference materials
Maps, charts, atlases, newspapers
and images!
Speaking about books, what is up
with Dewey?
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The 10 main groups are: 000–099, general works; 100–199, philosophy
and psychology; 200–299, religion; 300–399, social sciences; 400–499,
language; 500–599, natural sciences and mathematics; 600–699,
technology; 700–799, the arts; 800–899, literature and rhetoric; and
900–999, history, biography, and geography.
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671.521Dewey classification number
Ala First three letters of the author’s surname or subject:
Wel=welding
The arrangement of books on the shelves follows the outline of the
classification system. Books with the following call numbers will appear
on the shelves in this order, with numerical placement being the primary
classification:
610.3
610.712
610.73 610.73 610.73 610.736
Nat
Fur
Ala
Bro
Smi
Atw
Notice that .712 comes before .73 in the 2nd and 3rd examples. Each
number is read independently. In this instance, .71 comes before .73. It
is not read as seven-twelve.
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Access our webpage at home—SIRS, NC
Live and Facts on File need passwords or
access directly via Blackboard or Moodle
• Helpful Library Links:
About the Library
Online Book Catalog
Search Tips
Internet Search Engines
Periodical List
What's New? (New Book List)
Library Handbook
MLA and APA Citations and
Tutorials
• And remember, you can always
ask your librarian!