Library Database Demonstration
I.
Central electronic library resources http://www.lib.ttu.edu/
Electronic
Resources http://www.lib.ttu.edu/eresources.htm
Online catalog
1. Find a Book
There are two sections:
top: general
Botton: refined
Click on qualifiers in the refined search section
Toffler, Alvin. Creating a new civilization : the politics
of the Third Wave / Alvin and Heidi Toffler ; foreword by Newt Gingrich.
HN17.5 .T636 1995
2. Publication in Journals
Electronic
Resources http://www.lib.ttu.edu/eresources.htm
Electronic
Databases http://www.lib.ttu.edu/databases/
Social
Sciences http://www.lib.ttu.edu/databases/socsci.htm
SocAbstracts
http://www.lib.ttu.edu/databases/fsinter.htm
Now you enter FirstSearch
Social Sciences
SocAbstracts
Search
for schneider andreas, select
author in box
Hint
:
you cannot get into FirstSearch directly, you need
a password.
You
have to go though the TTU system.
Start
at Social Sciences http://www.lib.ttu.edu/databases/socsci.htm
3. Available databases
http://www.lib.ttu.edu/databases/
alphabetical
listing of … http://www.lib.ttu.edu/databases/alpha.htm
II.
Library Research Assignment:
1.
Make a
list of
a.
two of
your professors at TTU and
b.
two
famous professors/researchers/performers in your field
2.
Write down the URL and the search engine /database you used.
3.
How do you get these four resources?
If you get it through
(a)
TTU
library: give author, year, title, and call number
(b)
Interlibrary
loan: give author, year, title
(c)
From a
journal in the library: give author, year, title, journal name, page#
(d)
From a
journal using interlibrary loan (copies): give author, year, title, journal
name, page#
III.
How to cite a resource? Example of ASA style references:
Book:
Research Article:
Internet address:
Newspaper:
Introduction to your Course Assignment:
"The Learning Brain" at: http://webct.tltc.ttu.edu:8900