LIBR 5a - Catalog

http://dbu.worldcat.org/title/judas-the-most-hated-name-in-history/oclc/899151655&referer=brief_results

A Universe of Information

"Information is the currency of democracy."

~Thomas Jefferson

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564 1642)

Thoughts for Today

Session 7 Journal due

Thursday, 10/19

Mid-term Exam 10/20 - 10/27

Exam will be ONLINE

Covers chapters 1-5

Announcements

Library Catalogs

We've come a long way...

telescope?

The problem with tags

observatory?

Fort Davis?

McDonald?

How to Find a Book

Look for the "call number" - letters, numbers, then combinations. Ex: BS 2860 .J83 E37 2006

http://dbu.worldcat.org/title/lost-gospel-of-judas-iscariot-a-new-look-at-betrayer-and-betrayed/oclc/70054395&referer=brief_results

Example: 5 book titles

• Write the number down! You won't remember
• Look for the signs on the ends of the shelves.
• Find the range of letters/numbers that your number will fit into
• Follow the letters & numbers until you find your number and your book

Terminal choices

Choosing Life or Death

Euthanasia

The Practice of Death

The Right to Die

A "subject search" using controlled vocabulary will retrieve data on the same topic, regardless of title

Library of Congress

Subject Headings*

Library of Congress

• created 1800 - 216 years old
• 162 million items
• 3,100 employees
• annual budget $650 million

Controlled Vocabulary = standardized terminology for EVERYTHING

• Describe what the data is actually ABOUT
• The title words may be irrelevant

Other eBook sources

Google books - http://books.google.com

Amazon: "Look Inside!"

Directory of Open-Access Books -

http://www.doabooks.org

National Academies Press

http://www.nap.edu

eBooks

Find through catalog OR

eBooks link

http://libguides.dbu.edu/library

Catalog

Search books, ebooks, articles together

Use "View Now"link in item record

Link

Search only ebooks

More complete search

History of the Library of Congress

Catalog searching

• established 1800 when capitol moved from Philadelphia to Washington

• originally part of the capitol building, burned in 1814

• Thomas Jefferson donated his personal library to rebuild (6,487 books!)

• Jefferson's philosophy was that nothing was outside the realm of what congress might need to consult

• 1870 law passed that anything receiving copyright must supply two free copies to the LoC

• now the largest library in the world

Controlled vocabulary search for standard topics

Keyword search for non-standard or combined topics

Keyword searching is not exact

Don't try too many keywords at once

Know your Boolean!

Combine subject and keyword searching

in Advanced Search screen

*News from the Library of Congress

Discovery Searches

Carla Hayden, sworn in as 14th Librarian on September 14, 2016.

1st woman

1st African American

Nominated by the President,

Confirmed by the Senate

• history major
• children's librarian
• head of Chicago Public Library system
• CEO of Baltimore's Pratt Library
• Professor of Library Science at U of Pittsburgh
• President of the American Library Association

Library Catalogs*

Q: Does the DBU Library have

a "Discovery Search?"

A: Yes and No

Books are blunt instruments

Think in hierarchies; ex: Bulimia > Eating Disorders

Catalogs search the metadata records

DBU library catalog offers keyword

and Advanced searching

http://dbu.worldcat.org/

* "Library catalogs are electronic search engines for books in physical or electronic format." (Badke, 97)

No: not like the ones Badke describes

Yes: the "WorldCat" catalog searches our books and some of our databases - not all.

It also allows us to search for books and items at other libraries all over the US, Canada, &

Great Britain

Example: Judas: the Most Hated Name in History by Peter Stanford

(Journal Searching is problematic)