LIB160 Chapter 3: Finding Books and More

You want to search for articles that discuss inherited traits. Some other words to describe the same concept as "inherited" might be words such as "genetic" or "hereditary." As discussed in Chapter 3, which example of a nested search would best fit your topic? (inherited OR genetic OR hereditary) OR traits (inherited OR genetic OR hereditary) AND traits (inherited AND genetic AND hereditary) AND traits (inherited AND genetic AND hereditary) OR traits (inherited OR genetic) AND (hereditary OR traits)

(inherited OR genetic OR hereditary) AND traits

Using the Material Type drop-down menu in Quick Search's Advanced Search, which search strategy is the most efficient and effective to find the following: Books on nanotechnology. Journal articles on electric cars Anything & everything possible with search terms darwin HMS beagle. CDs for learning Arabic. Books Journals Audio Visuals All Items Articles

Books Articles All items Audio Visual

Now, click on the relevant subject heading that you identified in the previous question and analyze your search results. Which of the following best describes your new results: You discovered the table of contents for this book You focused your results to be on this exact subject You used Library of Congress call numbers to find the book You saved your search results to your Library account You retrieved more books by this author on this topic

You focused your results to be on this exact subject

The top row of books is arranged in the correct order. Now, in which space (A,B,C,or D) would each of the books in the second row be shelved? You need to get all four call numbers correct to get credit on this question. Book 1 goes Book 2 goes Book 3 goes Book 4 goes A,B,C,D

C B A D

Use Quick Search to search for the book Greek: A history of the language and its speakers. Where is this book located? General Collection Media Center Leisure Collection Design Reading Room Stacks Reference Collection

General Collection

You're working on a group project and need the book Leadership for a better world: Understanding the social change model of leadership development, by Susan R. Komives and Wendy Wagner. Search for this book by clicking the Books tab in WorldCat (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. . On your search results screen find the book and click its title for the full record view. In the "Find a copy in the library" section enter 50011 as your zip code and click Find libraries button. Which is the nearest library to ISU that owns this book? Des Moines Area Community College West Des Moines Public Library University of Nebraska, Lincoln ISU Library owns this Ames Public Library

ISU Library owns this

It's important to know where to find a book in the Library. You heard about a book called Write great essays! A guide to reading and essay writing for undergraduates and taught postgraduates. Search for that book now in Quick Search to answer the following questions: What is the call number of this book? Now click on the Map It button to view the book's location within the library. On which Floor or Tier is this book located?

LB2369 L57x 2004 Floor 3

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) affect your search results. If you do a search in Quick Search for books using the search phrase graffiti AND Los Angeles, you'll retrieve about 10 records for books. If you re-do that search as graffiti OR Los Angeles, you will broaden your search results (retrieve more records). Why is this so? Because using AND always narrows search results. Booleans give you more control over your keyword search results. OR will show results containing either one or all of the search terms. Using Booleans narrows your search results. OR is useful when you need to search synonyms or variant forms of a word.

OR will show results containing either one or all of the search terms.

You look up the book Roots and research in urban school gardens by Veronica Gaylie. Quick Search shows that the book is on Tier 1 with call number SB55 G395 2011. When you get to Tier 1, you see these signs on the bookcases. According to these book number ranges, this book should be located: Shelf 1 Shelf 2 Shelf 3 Shelf 4 S671.N6 S934.14.I5 S934.14.I5 SB1.H1 SB1H1 SB107.A1 SB107.A1 SB119.P6 On Shelf 1 None of these - keep looking On Shelf 4 On Shelf 3 On Shelf 2

On Shelf 3

Use Quick Search to search for the book Facebook: The missing manual by Emily Vander Veer. You will find online and print versions of the book. Click on the title of the print book to see the full display with more details. If you wanted to find more books that address social networking, which link in the full display should you click? Link to TOC Table of Contents Emily A. Vander Veer Online social networks Facebook manual

Online social networks

You're looking for information on developing effective presentation skills. Match the information sources listed below to the appropriate finding tool - WorldCat, Quick Search, or Google Books. Books, ebooks, journals, articles & other scholarly materials from ISU Library; all books available on your topic that you can check out Ebooks you can download or buy; scanned full-text or excerpted books to read online; free ebooks for your Android or iPhone Quick Search Google Books

Quick Search Google Books

If you discover the ISU Library does not own the book you need, which of the following is the best option for you to access the book? You would need to change your topic to find something the library owns. Check Document Delivery to see if another library will buy it for you. Check with staff at Circulation to see if they can order it for the library. Petition your professor to give you an alternate assignment. Request the book through the library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Request the book through the library's Interlibrary Loan service.

During a class lecture, your professor mentions a book about honeybees and colony collapse disorder by an author named Halter. The following Quick Search strategy is an effective way to find this book. Why? Using the Boolean AND will greatly expand your search results. You have expanded your search strategy by using multiple rows. It will find the exact phrase "colony collapse disorder". It will find a book about honeybees and not a journal article. The search settings best match what you know about the book.

The search settings best match what you know about the book.

Chapter 3 discusses searching by specific fields. Click the Advanced Search link under the Quick Search box. In the Advanced Search area select the correct field drop-down menu option to use for finding items... that include the word flexagons in the title about the vaccination of animals written by the National Gallery of Australia written by Goodall and about chimpanzees Title Subject Author/Creator Any FIeld

Title Subject Author/creator Any field

What is the main purpose of subject headings? To index scholarly articles by head authors To organize library subjects by their formats To access items that library does not own To access online resources in subject databases To organize resources according to subject areas

To organize resources according to subject areas

Quick Search lets you refine or narrow your search results using links on the right side of the screen. Do a search on graphic design. What are some criteria that can refine your search results in Quick Search? by availability by number of versions owned by popularity by author/creator True False

True False False True

You're using Quick Search to look for the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. An item in your search results indicates that "2 versions of this record exist." According to Chapter 3, which choice below best explains what this means? You have found 2 items of any format (book, video, etc) that have this same title Librarians do not agree on the cataloging of this item, thus 2 different versions exist You have found three music CDs (music records) with this exact title There happen to be three different films in the Library with this exact title The Library owns three duplicate copies of the popular film with this title

You have found 2 items of any format (book, video, etc) that have this same title

As an information finding tool, Quick Search is the best tool for finding: US federal and state government websites open access online resources quick and easy facts on your research topic Interlibrary Loan materials books and more that the ISU Library owns

books and more that the ISU Library owns

Truncation is a keyword search technique that helps you find useful variations of a term or terms. You want to find books on the topic of gravity and gravitational collapse. Where should you best truncate in this example? gravit* and collapse grav* and collapse gravity* and collapse gra* and collapse gravita* and collapse

gravit* and collapse

You need to read a copy of Geology of the National Capital Region: Field trip guidebook, but all copies are checked out from ISU Library. What are your choices in Google Books (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. for this title? buy it from Amazon.com since Google Books doesn't have it get the free mobile ebook since Google Books doesn't have scanned full-text for this title you need first to have an Android, iPhone, iPad, or Nook in order to read the ebook read scanned full-text online or download the free mobile ebook find it in other libraries & use ILL since Google Books doesn't have free full-text of the whole book

read scanned full-text online or download the free mobile ebook