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definitions October 29, 2008

Filed under: DEFINITIONS — rfcindy1012 @ 7:57 pm

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.

 

Definitions October 16, 2008

Filed under: DEFINITIONS, Uncategorized — rfcindy1012 @ 2:48 am

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