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These exercises have been provided to help students learn about library services and researching. They may be used by an instructor as an assignment.
Exercise: Find a Book and a Periodical
Using your library's GIL catalog
Learning Objective: Find a book relevant to your research project and a periodical in your library's catalog.
PART 1
Finding a book on a topic
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What is your research question?
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What keywords will you use to search for books on your topic?
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What kind of Search will you use? For example, Title, Keyword, Author, etc.
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Please write down the search words as you entered them in GIL.
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Select a book that looks relevant to your research question and record the following information:
- Author
- Title
- Publication information (city, publisher, date)
- Library:
- Call number:
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Is the book available for check out?
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What terms in the Subjects could you use to refine your search?
PART 2
Finding Periodicals
You have found a citation to the following article:
Fisher, J.R. (1998). Cattle plagues past and present: The mystery of Mad Cow Disease. Journal of Contemporary History, 33(2), 215-229.
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What will you look up in the catalog to locate the article?
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What kind of search will you do?
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Record the following information for the journal you have found:
- Title:
- Publication information:
- Library:
- Call number:
- Volumes Owned:
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Is the volume your article is in available?
Submit your work to your instructor if required.
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