And I'd like to welcome Nancy Dryden, uh, 1 of our libraries from our Stanford campus, who is next up on the, our presentation extravaganza. So, Nancy, please take it away.
Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you. Welcome everybody.
Um, I'm just going to do a short thing and how to use the general library search.
I'm going to assume you don't know that much. So please forgive me for assuming that because I'm sure you do know.
Us quite a few things I'm going to share my screen cause I'm gonna start with the PowerPoint and then it's gonna be only 3 slides and then I'll be going to the live. Um.
Searching okay, so, um.
What we're going to cover today is I'm going to talk about what's included in library search how to search for particular titles.
How to search on a topic how to access the content.
How to request books from other libraries.
Um, some searching tips and tricks and things like live items to Europe.
You know, your account, your library count and how to find some videos um, mostly streaming video.
So, what's included in library? General search is actually the vast majority of our content.
Um, including our library catalog items, of course, to to her books.
Of eBooks, video scores, Docs, dissertations reference entries.
Um, et cetera, and nearly all our database content, but.
There I think the only things missing or some, some business databases that are not in here. So it's really the, you know, the vast majority of our content.
So, um, we're gonna start at the library home page and she, and you all know about this. I always tell my students to bookmark this on their laptops.
Well, I believe that you can't get it to you as we have.
A search box, right on the homepage. We also have a link to advanced search, which I'm going to confess that I really, really use.
Um, but I also do you want to tell you that you, you don't need to search on this page if you hit the search.
Button it will take, you.
Discovery tool, and this is helpful because you might find some information, um.
Search tips and et cetera that we wanna use.
So, I'm going to start out with high 5 particular titles.
It's going to default to searching in the articles and the library catalog and you could, um.
You know, change that if you like, so if I know a book title, I can just put it in.
So, I'm going to just search the room of one's own.
Without doing any, um, fine, I'm going to get a different.
Sources, so it says Journal book.
And sometimes you get articles, so I'm not finding the actual book I want.
Until I get down to number 5, and then it's going to tell us 6 versions of this resource. And as we know this is a classic that's going to be.
I think we have different additions.
More formats, um, so.
This is telling me that we have the 1st 1 here is an E book from 2020.
And then when it says not available, it usually means that it's out to somebody.
And then the print books are going to say available at a certain library stacks. And as you probably aware, it's going to give the different campuses. Um, except, except for, um, baggage or archives.
They're just going to assume the students know that. That's it stores. So this is kind of something I've been fighting for a while I want them to, because I have to tell my students they don't know where babesh library is.
Um, so if I add, um.
Say that the author's name or last name I can get, I can get quicker to the broker. I'm looking for.
And so you see that it pops to number 1.
Um, looking at it.
So, as I said, when it says online access, that means it's an ebook.
You can click either on the title, or on the online.
Record this is how you get to actually access.
To the source that we have the full text, and we have our full text content and many different ebook packages or publishers.
Sites or databases, and so the students can click on this to get to.
Uh, the forecast, but I also tell my students is that.
Okay.
There's going to be different ways to.
Get to full text, because it's different, um, publishers, but.
A lot of times you can get to the different to the table of contents and see a PDF link for each chapter.
So, often, when they're doing research, they're not reading a whole book then just need a chapter or section. So they don't they can download just the chapter they want.
So, when I found something that I'm interested in, I could use this little pin button to put it into my favorites folder.
So, he's going to pop a few things in there.
Um, and this is the sign up here is for your library account.
This is the account you use it if you checked out a book, you want to renew it. This is the same account. You tell the students do not have to create any account. Your net ID is the gives you an account.
So, when you click on this sign in, it'll just ask you.
Your neck.
Get them later.
So, once I signed in those items will.
Will show up in my favorite folder. Okay.
That was the topic.
So, we still.
Searching so, for something like.
Nutrition and genetics, you do not need to use the boolean logic terms the, and.
It'll do that automatically. Okay.
We get over 330,000 hits because all the.
Resource types obviously are showing up, um, before you, um.
Narrow the deck refine the limits on the left.
And so I always tell students that something like this is too large to be using articles really?
And so I like to limit my results to books. I usually like to start start finding books.
Okay, so this gets me down to 500 results.
Um, I always tell students to look at the dates, especially it's important when you're doing research.
You don't want to use a book from 963 especially if it's a current topic.
Um.
I like to click on the title again. Okay.
Access to the full text in it.
Yeah, because there's going to be a ton of information no matter if it's a book or an article.
Um, just describing that item, decide getting to the table.
Contents deciding if you're interested in, um, it's.
I can show you.
Can see the different sections and select PDF from just the chapter that you want.
So, again, I can put that into my folder from this page as well as the front page.
We also had these tools for what you can do with the citation.
I usually have my students create account and have them send their items to works.
Um, you can get citations from here.
And they need to be proofread, obviously, but you could copy and paste this into a worksite document.
Well, I mean, you can export these to other places as well.
Hi.
Favorites folder, you could do all these things you.
Bulk so I have the students, um, select.
The items and then use this very, very.
Kind of him pushed 2 actions button to do all all those items.
Those functions, um, so.
Books.
Um, it's.
From other libraries, and they have to be signed.
Again, before they'll see this request from you, so.
If you've gotten to this point, and you have not done that sign in, it'll give you a, um, a prompt to sign in. And then you see the requests from UConn button and so on that.
You're not using our my.
Um, program to get it all you need to tell them is where are you going to get to pick up.
I don't think extended request, then students get an email that says it's arrived and they can pick it up with their own ID card to check it out.
Um, just do that. They look.
At the, um.
Or the key words that are in.
Okay, sorry?
Hello, thank you. Bye. Um.
New term genetics I found that term when I, when I was looking at that book.
Um, oh, and then maybe I want to.
Search for article called disease.
A little more focused.
When I do under search, it takes off like, books.
Once I do any search, it's taken out.
Laughs.
For my next search, I have to click on remember all filters.
So we talked about so, okay for so the articles you're going to find full texts for every article that's in here. And of course, you can just click on full text available, download.
Yeah.
By the way to the full text, which we have in 2 separate places.
Any questions about doing that basic searching.
So, we do have a question, uh, yeah, from the group. Um, and.
And was asking is your favorites folder tied to your net ID?
Yes, okay. I thought so. But yeah. Figured it would be it it's your library account.
Yeah, so can I just like clarify real quick.
Does that mean that it lives? Um, can you hear me.
I can okay. Does it mean that it lives? Like, you could be working on a favorites list over the course of a few days, and it will stay there. You can return back to that same thing.
If you signed in okay yes, because you can add things to your folder.
You can add things to your folder without being signed in. You'll go away when you go off that browser.
Right. So yes, but it's connected to your library, um.
I can show that front of this homepage where it says my accounts.
You see that this is my library account.
And so this is the same thing where I can see.
Things I have checked out and that's where I could renew it.
Or if I make requests, but it does folder is still going to be up here.
Thank you. Good question. All right so some searching tips and tricks you want to use quotation marks like.
Can every database for exact phrase matches?
Um, yeah.
Oh, Gee is quite a change.
Um, and if I start, right, I'll get some results.
Um, sometimes students use that inappropriately site.
You have to understand that it's actually a phrase that you want to keep those terms together.
You can use the asterisk wild card in place of 1 or more characters.
So, if you do child, um.
Then you're going to get results for a child and children job, like child.
Good experience your searches.
This is for something like adolescent and adolescence.
Use that sometimes also what you can do from here is over here on the left, it's going to default by.
Sorting by relevance, but if you want to keep things to the pop to the top, that are more current.
Then you can, um, sort it by date newest.
Hello.
This is not a good example of.
About that
it's not working for me so.
I apologize I have no idea why that's happening. If anyone else on the call understands. I don't know.
Sorry to talk about library so.
I just want to talk a little bit about streaming about videos.
Um, so we have at the top of the page, so feature resources. So it's a different couple different ways where you can find videos.
I can shoot me resource just.
And is you can't libraries training videos collection.
So oh, I could search here by, uh, um, say Virginia Woolf.
And we have, um, 8 different videos.
And so I can.
Get into the record and just.
Find more out about this item. How long it is what it's about.
Et cetera, and then just, it's just left, like our, um.
Sorry.
So, awesome, uh, topic, like women.
And labor, we have 150.
That have those, uh, somewhere in there here.
Um, identify.
1, and then we could go back to the catalog and you can search for videos from our, um, the regular catalog.
So, if I knew a title, I could search, um, the title.
And again, you want for titles it's good to put them in quotation marks.
And then you can just put the key words streaming.
It comes that that video.
Another way to find videos is to search the topic that you're looking for.
Any refinements at 1st and then when you have your debrief.
Can you can click on show more to get more.
There's a lot of them.
And then find the video recordings.
Not only streaming, but.
Um, that we have in our collections.
So, when it says available at a certain libraries stacks, that's going to mean that it's in.
So, you could request these from stores or from any of the regional campuses. We do. Um, let lent out our DVDs around the campus.
If you wanted to get rid of those DVDs and and look at the streaming.
Then you can click full text.
The streaming videos.
On women and Labor day.
And a string of copy, there's an example of that, this.
Here you go towards, um.
So only only thing we talk about.
This Journal search up at the top, you can also get to this from our home page.
Find you can click on Journal storage and this is where I.
We have full text access to any title than what years we have.
So so here I can see that there's
some print copies still in some libraries, but we also have.
Some online,
but it's important to look at.
Date, but this 1, I was looking for an article that somebody had linked and I couldn't get to the full text. Yes.
Somebody LinkedIn in our Slack and so I went here to find the Yukon copy of it through, through academics. Just get that most recent.
Okay.
Are there any questions? Sorry you kind of cut out a little bit there last couple of minutes, Nancy if you wouldn't mind, uh, that last little bit.
Sure, so I was talking about the journal surging. Is that what you missed?
Yeah, just the tail end of that. Okay.
So, as I said, you can from the catalog is a journal search button.
And then Journal search.
In the title.
The year that you're looking for.
More time, period, um.
You are that, uh.
I was looking for a most current article that somebody had linked.
So, I knew that academics premier would not have that protocol available. And so I have it.
Hello.
And that very nicely brought me to the web.
I think this is what we were worried about.
Somebody's so, um, we get a lot lot of questions and chat from your students about, um, you know,
how to find information on topics and.
This is a good place for them to start as long as they can use the refinements on the left hand side because sometimes.
They start out broadly and then get way too much stuff.
So, encourage them to narrow down by books maybe even by reference entries, if you want to get some kind of basic article.
Um, about something, they don't know something about.
So, it's kind of, um, hard to.
To scroll through a lot of different things of different format types to find what you're looking for.
Any any questions we can give you a long break.
Yeah, I just had 1 quick question, Nancy. Um, I was just thinking, so.
When any librarian is working with a student, when do you think is the best.
I'm to, like, jump out with the general search.
Versus looking at, like, looking versus looking at more like subject, specific databases and stuff like that.
Yeah, I mean.
I think it's a good place to start when they don't know how they want to focus.
I think going to academic search, premiere or info, or something like that.
It's helpful to have a little more idea of how they're focusing.
So, I think it is a good place.
To start and then, you know, encourage them to.
Start broad, you know, do some reading and then go back to the catalog to do more.
Targeted searching Wednesday.
You know, learn a little bit about the topic, or no really want to focus.
Awesome. Thank you very much. Yeah, we've got a couple of things.
Yeah, and also oh, go ahead, correct, correct. Academic search premier anytime, because we have so much full text content in there for articles. It's a really good point. Yeah. So, um, does anybody have any additional questions?
We got a couple of minutes left in this session.
Feel free to either write it in the chat or jump off. Mike.
Okay, so I'll take it that there aren't any questions right now if you guys do think of anything later on, um, I can definitely pass any questions often, Nancy, or we can, uh, uh, generate answers. Um, Kelsey, and I can generate the answers but, um.
Want to take a moment to thank Nancy for joining us today. Really? Appreciated. Great presentation. Um, yeah, thank you very much. All right. Thank you. Everyone for joining.
Like today okay, we'll go ahead and step off for a little bit longer break this time. So we'll have about 8 minutes.
Um, and then we'll come back at 1030 for our next session, which is, uh, 1 of our librarians. Roslyn grantee will be, uh, looking at strategies for searching the library databases. databases
So everyone to enjoy your break.