definitions October 29, 2008

Database-provision of database access to proprietary research database to graduates of an academic institution. (ODLIS)

Citation databases- databases that only give citations and not full texts

Citation and abstract databases- databases that only give abstracts and citations not full texts

Full text databases- databases that give the full text.

Open access- fully peer reviewed journals that are open to the public reporting original research. (ODLIS)

Stop words- small words that databases reguard as insignificant, such as “as” “is” “the”.

Phrase searching- searching for a phrase in quotations so the database wont leave out the stop words.

Proximity searching- using the symbols n and w which allow for proximity searches, which is searching for words with in or near other words

Adjacency searching- what databases do, they search for the words right next to each other in the title or text or whichever specified, for example, jesus camp. the database will search for “jesus camp” not jesus then camp unless specified with and in between them.

October 27, 2008

To find a more specific search find use proximity searches. They use the symbols N and W. N standing for near and W standing for within. If finding a phrase and the words do not have to be beside each other use for example n5 meaning that the two words are 5 words near each other. Also in finding a specific title or phrase, make sure to put it in quotes other wise the system will not find words that are stop words like “it” “is” or “to”. Good mechanism for searching is truncation the * symbol after the root word, therefore the system will look up all variations of a word. for example the word “help*” with the truncation, the system will look up “helping” and “helps.” Don’t forget that when the system has listed the results, it is not always listed by relevance, so the first page is not necessarily the most helpful page.

October 20, 2008

Scholarly is written by an academic and has had extensive research done on the article or topic. There usually is a works cited after the article citing where the information came from. These articles are more reliable for research topics because they are more reliable. These articles have minimum opinion in them and are not bias.

Popular is written by a journalist who has done research but not as extensive as done on a scholarly article. There is usually no works cited at the end of the article. There also may be some opinion about a topic in the article not just fact reporting and the articles can be bias.

Definitions October 16, 2008

Periodicals- published at regular intervals more than one day.

circulation- an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit or flowing.

Reference Collection- collection of objects maintained for the purpose of the study of authentication.

Public Good-?

Blog- a website for the public to write on a topic, anyone can

Blog Post- the post, commentary made on a blog site about a topic

Primary Sources- a source from the actual event or at the time for example a journal of someone in the holocaust.

Secondary Sources- analysis of the event or topic for example the book on the holocaust that has been researched.

Tertiary Sources- written work based on secondary sources and not at all by primary sources

Government Documents- a federal government document that has all the requirements for distribution through the fdlp but was never sen to the government printing press so it is not distributed to libraries.

Archives- place where historical records are kept, the records are of any medium

Library Catalogue- means by which all books, dvd’s, cd’s ect can be found at the library

Brief Record- information shown about book or whatever the medium maybe, for example the author, call number, publication, does nto show all bibliographic record

Full Record- shows all bibliographic record

Subject headings- subjects in which the book or dvd can be found under.

Library of Congress Classifications- classification used in university libraries, classified by 20 catagories.

Dewey Decimal Classification- classification used in public and grade school libraries, classified by subject.

PURL- persistent uniform resource locator- does not show the location of the source but the intermeidiate location when redirected

Boolean Operators- system of logic that was designed for the user to use words or phrases that represent concepets

Truncation- symbol and abbriviation of a word that narrows down and broadens search

Concept map- map of concpets

Searching- act of searching, look for information

Browsing- look for information on the internet

Scope- journal that specializes in writting summeries.

examples of reference:

    –thesuarus- gives synomyms

     –quotations- reference of source

     –The Bible- religious reference

Authority- necessary for organization in any kind of organization, enterprise, ect

Wikis- web application that allows users to add information or their own two cents

Interlibrary loan- allows librabries to borrow material

Worldcat- an online catalogue with a ton of materials

Microforms- microfiche, microform–photographs that are minimized on to different mediums.

Annotations- brief summary about a source along with a citation.

Citations- formal credit given to the source of the information used

Part B October 11, 2008

Social internet blogs such as Facebook and Myspace have become less private over time. I derived this hypothesis in part A.

Finding books on specifically Facebook and Myspace was extremely difficult especially on their history. To find a book in the UNCW library catalogue I was forced to broaden my search to “privacy on the internet.”

Solove, Daniel. The Future of Reputation, Gossip, Rumors and Privacy on the Internet. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.

Need for Internet Privacy Legislation: hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First session, July 11, 2001. Washington: U.S G.P.O, 2006.

class review October 8, 2008

The class I enjoyed was book censorship. I had no clue how many books have been challenged especially classics like To Kill a Mocking Bird. I enjoyed the way the class started, maybe because i was late but right when i walked in we were about to read a story i had no clue what about. Towards the end of the story i understood why Ms. Radom was reading the story but it was a nice surprise or change. To possibly make the class a little better, maybe do a more interactive activity than pick a side and argue. It might have been just my class but we all seemed to agree. I learned that people think very differently and take offense to many different topics. Its good to respect others opinions but also i hope that some can open up their minds and learn to repspect that others may enjoy reading about “socially unacceptable” topics.