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This page describes an extra writing assignment that teaches you how to use libraries.
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| Learning How To Research Online (3-06) |
Assignment for "SearchPath":
Electronic Tutorial for Research Skills
Copyright
(©) 2006 by Julia McGregor, Inver
IHCC’s library has a new electronic tutorial for learning some research skills. Your task is to complete all of the modules and quizzes for that tutorial.
Here is an overview and some guidelines of what you need to do.
1. Go to the college library’s website: http://www.inverhills.edu/Library/
2.
Scroll down and click on
New
at the Library - Search
Path - a tool to help you increase your
information literacy skills.
3. On the new page, click on “First Time Users” and read through the two or three screens there.
4. Go back to the Search Path home page and click on “Return Users” to begin the first of six modules.
5. Each time you complete a quiz – at the end of five of the six modules—print out the final screen that displays your name and your quiz results for that module. Save these to turn in on Tuesday, March 14.
Note:
Module 1 has subsections for magazines, journals, newspapers, books,
library catalog, encyclopedias, an article database, and the World Wide Web.
(That is just the list under “Types of Sources.”
You have to click on each of the icons for those words to complete the
module. Don’t skip anything.)
Things
to Remember
· Do this tutorial carefully, even taking notes. I want you to learn every single concept and guideline that is in this tutorial. This is not a point-and-click exercise.
· Here are the terms or skills that I want you to know when you have completed these tutorials:
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Data base (and examples of) |
Index |
Boolean operators |
Truncation |
Abstract |
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Subject directories (commercial and library) |
Popular magazines, scholarly journals, and trade journals |
Other search engines besides Google |
Metasearch engines |
Advanced search techniques with search engines |
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EBSCOHost |
LexisNexis |
InfoTrac |
Academic InFo |
lli.org |
Special
Instructions for Module 3: Using
WebPals
This
module covers how to search WebPALS, the IHCC library catalog. Clicking on the
red arrow at the bottom of the first page will take you to a
tutorial-inside-a-tutorial at a new page called "Using WebPALS Library
Catalog.”
1.
Read the information on this new page
but do not click UNTIL you get to the words “”Author Searching.”
2.
Click on “Author Searching” and
complete that module.
3.
Click on the “Back” button at the
bottom of the last screen to return to the previous page.
4.
Click on “Title Searching” and
complete that module.
5.
Click on the “Back” button at the bottom of the last screen to return to the previous page.
6.
Click on “Subject and Keyword
Searching Lesson” and complete the module.
7.
Click on the “Back” button at the
bottom of the last screen to return to the previous page.
8.
Click on “Boolean Operators and Truncation Searching Lesson”
and complete the module. (This will complete this module. There is no quiz.
You will have to re-enter the library home page and Search Path to
continue with Module 4.)
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