Time: 9:30am -Noon
Date:  Tuesday, August 25,  2009
Place: Information Handling Lab 413/415, Scholarly Communication Center, 4th  floor, Alexander Library, CAC

Participating Librarians:
Kevin Mulcahy, Humanities Librarian*
Judy Gardner, Head, University Libraries Access and Interlibrary Services

*Myoung C. Wilson, Liaison Librarian to School of Communication and Information (SC & I) extends her warm welcome to all new online degree students. She regrets not being able to extend her welcome in person but looks forward to working with them virtually.

I.  Welcome --Kevin Mulcahy

II.  Access to RUL collections  -- Judy Gardner (9:30am - 10:30am) 

• Off-campus log in with NET ID
• Barcode and PIN registration
• Searching RUL online catalog IRIS to verify availability of books, journal titles (NOT the journal articles themselves—see below on how to search journal articles) and other materials from RUL collection
• Highlights of RDS (Rutgers Delivery Service
•  Inter campus delivery of Rutgers books
• Book pickup locations, including off-campus sites
• Electronic delivery of Rutgers articles
• EZBorrow
• Interlibrary Loan 
• E-Reserve
• MY ACCOUNT in IRIS
• VALE Reciprocal Borrowing Program                                                      

III.  Welcome and Introduction to Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) system

• Brief introduction to RUL homepage
• Rutgers University Libraries LibX Toolbar  
  

IV.  Have questions ??????

• SC & I  liason librarian [click for contact information]
• Ask a Librarian via email (24/7)
• Ask a Librarian via Meebo chat reference service (weekday afternoons and evenings) available on the RUL homepage
  

V.  Online Research Resources and Tools  --Kevin Mulcahy

• Searching IRIS (Rutgers online catalog) and other online catalogs
• Navigational paths to library and information science subject research guide via the library homepage using  the left hand side index bar
• Research Resources :: Subject Research Guides :: Social Sciences and Law :: Library and Information Science

VI.   How to find journal articles using indexes and databases  (This is in text format)

For a quick demo of searching one of the databases, click here.

Frequently Used Databases in Library and Information Science

For a complete list of indexes and databases, click Indexes and Databases from the <Library Homepage>  under  <Find Articles>.  Be sure you log in with your NetID when accessing these databases from an off campus site.

When using the databases listed below familiarize yourself with using thesauri in each database:

• Academic Search Premier  (Full Text from Selected Journals) also frequently referred to as  EbscoHost    Full text collection of multidisciplinary fields including library and information science fields.  If you are interested in obtaining only those items that are available online either Limit your search results to Full Text or click to determine the availability of online full text and print journals via IRIS
• ACM Digital Library  (Full Text) Full text collection of journals and conference proceedings published by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
• ASIST Digital Library  (Full Text)   Four major publications issued by the American Society of Information Science and Technology.
• ERIC – Education Resources Information Center (Full Text from Selected Journals) A national education database that includes many library and information science journals
• Google Scholar
  
• Library Literature and Information Science Full Text and Retrospective (Full Text from Selected Journals)  Full text available in about 100 journals   Either Limit your search to Full text or click to determine availability of online full text and print journals via IRIS.
• Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)    This database provides abstracts and bibliographic citations only.  Click to determine the availability of online full text and print journals via IRIS. 

VII.  Examples of Online Journal Titles

Express Links to Key online journals and electronic book collections in the digital libraries track

• Ariadne 
  
• CISNet (MIT Press)
  
• D-Lib Magazine
  
• InfoSci-Books 
• Information Processing & Management     
• Information Research: an international electronic journal
• Information Retrieval
• JASIST: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology   
• Journal of Documentation 

Express Links to Key online journals  and database in the School Library Media program track

• Children and libraries 
• JerseyClicks(Available via the NJ State Library. For remote access you must sign in with your NJ public library ID card).  JerseyClicks offers  a number of  useful databases for school librarianship including titles such as the NoveList Plus.
• Knowledge quest: journal of the American Association of School Librarians
• LMC library media connection 
• Orana
• School libraries in Canada
  
• School libraries worldwide  
• School library media activities monthly (print only 2007/2008 to present)
  
• School library media research

For all other electronic journal titles click Rutgers Electronic Journal Lists 

VIII.  Bibliographic Citation Manager

RefWorks is a Web-based bibliographic citation manager, which works with most library databases. This tool allows you to build your personal research database and will format your citations in the style sheet (such APA, MLA, etc) that is required. RefWorks requires that you open your own account after you connect to the RefWorks site.
You can also click here to see a demo as shown in earlier section.

Citation Builder is a tool developed by the North Carolina State University Libraries that will help you format your citations in the required style. You will have to manually input bibliographic elements.

Zotero is an open source citation manager. It is a free Firefox extension to help you collect, manage and cite research resources.  For instructions, click ztour on the Zotero homepage. 

IX.  Ebooks

• Use   CISNet , Google Books,   InfoSci-Books,  netLibrary  and  MyiLibrary for electronic books  
• Selected online reference titles
  
• Advances in librarianship
• Advances in library administration and organization
• American reference books annual (ARBA)
  
• Annual review of information science and technology 
• Books in print with reviews 
• ChoiceReviews online  (for book reviews for academic libraries)
• Guide to Reference (American Library Association)
• InfoSci-Books This electronic books collection offers a large number of reference titles including  Encyclopedia of distance learning , Encyclopedia of gender and information technology , Encyclopedia of information science and technology,  Encyclopedia of knowledge management and  Encyclopedia of multimedia technology and networking among many other titles.
  
• International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences
  
• New review of information behavior research 
  
• NoveList Plus   
• ODLIS (Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science) by Joan Reitz
• Oxford English Dictionary 
• RCLweb (Resources for College Libraries)
  
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
• The Wilson Core Collections (formerly the Wilson Standard Catalogs)
• Children’s catalog
• Middle and junior high school library catalog
• Public library catalog
• Senior high school library catalog 

X.  Search Exercise

Pick a research topic and search one or two of the databases listed above.  By doing this exercise I am hoping that you will familiarize yourself with the navigational paths of Rutgers electronic resources.

XI.  Searchpath –Online Tutorial

Searchpath is a Rutgers modified online library tutorial that is largely targeted for undergraduate students. However, if you are not familiar with the Rutgers libraries system, you may find some modules worthwhile investing your time to do the exercise. One byproduct of such an exercise will help you devise your own tutorial for your students (and other library users) in your current and future workplace. This is an optional exercise.

XII. Tour of the Alexander Library -  Kevin  Mulcahy  (Available if time permits and upon requests)

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