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LIBRARY BASICS AND CLASSIFICATION AND ORGANIZATION

LIBS101 – Spring 2010

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UMW Libraries Basics

Simpson Library Main Collection Special Collections Reference, Circulation and Technical

Services CGPS Stafford Library

Branch Library on Graduate Campus Subject Collections Reference and Circulation Services

UMW Libraries Website

Information about Library Services Account Access ILL

Access to: Catalog Databases

Research Assistance

How would you organize these items?

Organization Exercise

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What information about each item would someone searching for the item want to know?

How would you organize the items you have into a collection?

What information about each item would be necessary to find the item within your collection?

How are Items/ Materials/ Resources Arranged in a Library? Easy, Logical Access is the Goal Resources usually physically arranged in the

Library by: Subject Format Combination of Subject and Format

Resources usually virtually arranged by: Subject Format Combination of Subject and Format

What does a classification system offer? Location Organization

Bring comparable items together in a logical arrangement

Controlled Vocabulary to describe Subjects Consistency

Common Classification Systems Dewey Decimal System

Public and Small Libraries Library of Congress

Academic Libraries Library of Congress Classification:

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ Controlled Vocabulary:

http://authorities.loc.gov/ SuDocs

US Government Documents United Nations Symbol Numbers

UN Publications

Library of Congress

Call Numbers SB451 .D85 1989 SB451 = Classification Number

S = Class/Subject Area (Agriculture) SB = Subclass (Plant Culture) 451 = Class Number within that Subject Area (Gardens)

Read as a whole number (451 comes before 4400) .D85 = Book Number

Read the letter alphabetically (D comes before E) and the number as a decimal (.85 comes after .840)

1989 = Date of edition Subjects:

Gardens -- History -- Congresses. Gardens -- Historiography -- Congresses. Landscape architecture -- History -- Congresses. Landscape architecture -- Historiography -- Congresses.

The Research Process*

1. Clearly define your topic or "information need"

2. Collect/find information 3. Evaluate the information you find 4. Use and/or do something with the

information 5. Use the information ethically and

legally

* From the LSU Libraries tutorial “The Research Process”: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/instruction/research/research-process01.html

Step 2: Collect and Find Information

Step 2 = Search Strategya) Select and Locate Information Sources and

Tools appropriate to your Need b) Determine Search Terms and Expressions

appropriate to Tools c) Perform Search and Evaluate the

effectiveness of the Search d) Modify and Repeat your Search as needed

Note: "Source" meaning the book or article or report with the information you need and "Tool" meaning what you use to get to that source, like the Library Catalog, databases, or a search engine.

2A. Select and Locate Information Sources and Tools

1. What type of information are you looking for?

2. What Tools will get you to that Source?

Getting Access to Resources

Various Tools provide information ABOUT available resources: Catalogs --> Items in a Library (Books,

Journals) Databases --> Articles in Journals, Magazines

and Newspapers Search Engines and Internet Directories -->

Websites Finding Aides --> Archival Materials

These tools allow you to access resources (Call #s, Citations, Full-Text, URLs, Box #s)

What type of information are you looking for?

Overview of Topic Find in: General Encyclopedias, and some Books and

Periodicals Tool: Catalog, Search Engines

Definitions Find in: Dictionaries Tool: Catalog, Search Engines

Primary Sources Find in: Newspapers, Research Reports, Archival

Documents, Government Documents Tool: Catalog, Search Engines, Databases, Finding

Aides Secondary Sources

Find in: Books, Magazine and Journal Articles, Subject Encyclopedias

Tool: Catalog, Databases

What type of information are you looking for? Facts

Find in: Almanacs and Yearbooks, Statistics, Government Documents

Tool: Catalog, Search Engine Current Information

Find in: Magazine, Journal, and Newspaper Articles, News sites

Tool: Databases, Search Engine Historical Information

Find in: Books, Encyclopedias and Reference Books, Periodicals

Tool: Catalog, Databases, Search Engine, Finding Aides Evaluative Sources

Find in: Book Reviews and Biographies Tool: Databases

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