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More Library Help
How do I get help?
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How do I find basic information on a topic?
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How do I find Book Reviews?
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How do I find scholarly journal articles?
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How do I find information about a person?
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How
do I find my way around the library?
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How can I get better results searching the Internet?
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How can I find newspaper articles?
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How can I locate information
on a company?
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How
do I research the Roanoke Times?
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How
can I find videos?
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How
can I find DVD's?
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How do I read a Library of Congress
Call Number?
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How do I read a Government
Document Number?
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REFERENCE LIBRARIANS
ARE AVAILABLE TO HELP!!!
DON’T SPEND HOURS SEARCHING. WE CAN USUALLY
HELP YOU IN A MATTER OF MINUTES! x2295
During the school
year, reference librarians are available:
Monday –
Friday
8 am to 4:30 pm
Sunday – Thursday 7 pm to 10 pm
During May term,
Summer school and interim, reference librarians are available:
Monday –
Friday
8 am to 4:30 pm
* * * ASK FOR ASSISTANCE * * *
If a topic is completely new to you or you need a refresher/overview
of a topic, the Encyclopedia
Britannica is a great resource. It’s
the
current edition complete with charts, maps, illustrations,
facts, and figures.
Subject encyclopedias are another great resource. In
addition to an overview of a topic, subject encyclopedias
usually include important terms, researchers in the field,
and bibliographies of significant works. Subject encyclopedias
are available in print format in the library. To see
what’s available in
your field,
select your discipline from the Resources by Subject
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How do I find
book reviews?
Book reviews can be located several ways. The first
place to look is in the Book
Review Digest. This database includes reviews
from 1984 to the present. Search by author’s name or the title of the book.
Remember that reviews are published anywhere from six months
to 2 years after a book is published. This is
an index only. Information included tells where to locate
the review but the fulltext of the review is not included.
A second place to look is in Books in Print. Reviews are
included for some of the titles listed. Search by author
or title. When an individual title entry is displayed,
links will appear on the right side of the screen to publisher
information and book reviews, if available. The
fulltext of the review will display if the book review link
is available.
Scholarly book reviews are indexed in the subject specific
databases. For example, to search reviews of books in
literature, fine arts, religion, history, or philosophy, use
the Humanities Index.
To search for reviews of books in sports, psychology, sociology,
political science use the Social
Sciences Index.
To search for reviews of books in education use the Education index General Science Index includes
reviews in all the sciences.
Book
reviews for books published before 1995 may be indexed in
Periodicals Contents Index.
This database allows a search to look only for book reviews.
This is an index only. There are no fulltext reviews
here.
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Each discipline has databases appropriate for locating journal
articles in various subjects. Some are fulltext, others
are indexes and/or abstracting databases only. These
databases are listed for you under each discipline/academic
department on the Resources page.
For example, if you are researching a topic on mainstreaming
students with disabilities in the classroom for an education
course, choose Education. Select from the databases
listed there. If you are researching the prison system
in Japan for a criminal justice
class, choose Public Affairs (because criminal justice courses
are taught out of this department) and choose from the databases
listed there.
Expanded
Academic ASAP includes scholarly articles as well
as more popular or consumer oriented articles.
To limit a search to scholarly publications, click the box
next to refereed articles. A search can be limited to
fulltext as well as scholarly.
To limit a search to articles in one particular journal in
the Expanded Academic ASAP, follow these instructions:
1. Select Advanced Searching
from the left sidebar.
2. Choose journal name from the
drop down box and type in the name of the desired journal.
3. In the remaining box(es)
type in the key words, subjects, authors, etc. desired.
4. Click the search key.
The computer will return a list of articles containing your
search terms that were published in the journal specified.
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Google – use quotation
marks around the person’s name for more accurate results.
“Britney Spears”
“Edgar Allan Poe”
Literature Resource
Center - includes
fiction, nonfiction, poets, and songwriters.
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Any one search engine can only
retrieve about 15% of what is available on the Internet.
Even so, massive amounts of relevant and irrelevant information
can be obtained with just a few keystrokes. Here are
some tips for making a search more efficient.
1. Google uses sophisticated text-matching
techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant
to your search.
2. Use quotation marks around
two or more words you want to appear together in order.
“Tiger
Woods”
“American Chemical Society”
“genetic engineering”
3.
Use the phrase site: followed
by edu, org, gov, mil, com to limit your search to a particular
type of website.
Edu = educational
Org = nonprofit organization
Gov = government
Mil = military
Com = commercial
For example, to search for
educational websites on cloning, type:
Site:edu cloning
To search for nonprofit organization
websites on migrant labor, type
Site:org “migrant labor”
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Newsbank – all fulltext articles from local and regional newspapers around the United
States. Great resource
for locating information on a local issue or controversy
such as prisons in Texas
or pollution in Woburn,
Massachusetts.
Factiva –articles all fulltext from major newspapers
including New York
Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune,
Los Angeles Times, and more.
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Factiva – lots of fulltext information here
including recent news
items, financial statements and SEC filings.
Wilson
Business Index
– Index of
articles from business related publications.
Hoovers.com – information available includes address, phone number, web address,
key people, news items, and financial information.
For some companies, you can
try a logical address for their Webpage such as
www.wendys.com or www.carilion.com (This doesn’t
always work –
www.fastfreddys.com doesn’t link to anything.) Look for a Webpage for the company by
searching Google.
Put quotation marks around the name of the company.
“General Electric”
“Norfolk
Southern”
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There are three ways to search
to Roanoke Times. Use A or B below for
back issues. Use C for today's issue.
A)IN LEXIS NEXIS:
1.
From the
Roanoke
College
homepage, select Library/Resources by Subject/News/LexisNexis
2.
Select
the button at the top right “Sources.”
3.
Select
R from the Alphabetical List.
4.
Select
Roanoke Times search this title.
5.
Fill in
the search as desired.
The Roanoke Times is fulltext
in this database beginning in January 1994 to the present
and is updated within 24 hours of publication, except Sunday
which is posted within two days of publication.
B)In Factiva:
Use Factiva
to locate fulltext articles from the Roanoke Times from 1993
to the present. To limit your search to the Roanoke Times
follow these
instructions:
1. Click on the blue Source
button in the middle left of the screen.
2. Type Roanoke
Times in the Find a Source box and click the round button
immediately to the right.
3. Click on the first Roanoke Times to add it to the search.
Roanoke Times will appear in the Source under Currently Selected.
4. Type search terms in the large box at the top of the screen
and adjust the date range if desired. Click Run Search. The
results will be from the Roanoke Times.
Another way to limit to the
Roanoke Times:
1. In the large box type rst=RNKE and what ever search terms
are needed. Adjust the date range if desired and click Run
Search.
C) DAILY EDITION:
Daily edition of the Roanoke Times is available at:
http://www.roanoke.com
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All videos are included in
the online catalog. There are at least two ways to locate
videos using the online catalog. Choose Search Specific
Collection link from the opening catalog
screen. Select
Roanoke College
Media Collection. A search done at this point will retrieve
only videos in Fintel Library.
Another way is to choose Search
Entire Collection button from the opening catalog screen. After a list
of titles is retrieved, select the drop down box View The
Entire Collection and choose Roanoke College Media Collection.
Click Search.
How do I find
DVD's?
All DVD's are included in the
online catalog. If you know the specific title you are looking
for, do a title search in the catalog.
An alphabetical listing of
the DVD's is available from the Roanoke College
homepage by selecting For Students/Library/New Book List (under
Catalogs)/Fintel Library DVD Collection.
Updated 8/2005
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