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REFERENCE
RESOURCES
- For quick facts, figures, and
authoritative overviews of any topic.
- Good places to start any research!
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- ONLINE: Use LAMP’s Electronic Resources, Reference
Resources. In this table, the left column lists the title of the
resource – with descriptions in the right column.
- DLLRC REFERENCE COLLECTION: 2nd Floor,
West Wing, near the Information Desk. Ask librarians to help you
find ones most useful for you.
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BOOKS & MEDIA
in the RCCD Library Collection,
(includes the library facilities
of the three RCCD Colleges)
For MEDIA ITEMS
- From
LAMP’s Library Catalog,
select KEYWORD search.
- On the resulting screen, note
the MATERIAL TYPE option – and to the right of the textbox for
this option, click on the down arrow.
- From the resulting drop-down window,
click on any of the media choice, like: VIDEO;SLIDE or SPOKEN
RECORD or SOUND RECORD .
BOOKS to
check out of the library are located in the "MAIN
STACK." In the Riverside City Campus
Library [DLLRC], the "Main Stack" = the 3rd Floor, West & East
Wings. Books are shelved by their "call numbers," a letter/number
combination that represents a subject area (per the Library
of Congress Subject
Classification
system).
MEDIA (video and sound
recordings, computer software, etc.) are shelved at the Circulation
Service Counter - located in the DLLRC on the 2nd Floor, East
Wing. Media are for use in the library only, and you'll need a
media
item's call number to check it out. Ask at the Information (Reference)
Desk for assistance.
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Click
on LAMP’s Library Catalog,
then on KEYWORD
- Use words and phrases you think of to describe information
you want.
- You may have to try different words and phrases
that more or less mean the same thing, describe the same
topic, that are "synonomous" (different words that more or
less have the same meaning).
- Put exact phrases in quotation marks, for example, “college students.”
- From the results list, look at the full description of items of interest
to you and note the SUBJECT line of the record to see the subject
headings assigned.
- Click on the subject headings that most closely describe the subject
you’re researching
- What results is a list of SUBJECT HEADINGS, in which you’ll find alphabetically
the heading you just clicked on and in the column to its far right,
the number of items in the RCCD Library collection that have been assigned
that subject heading, that are in a major way about that subject.
You can also search the LIBRARY CATALOG:
- By SUBJECT
- Using
authorized, Library
of Congress Subject Headings (the official,
fixed words and phrases descriptive of all aspects of human
life, interest, and endeavor as developed and maintained
by the Library of Congress.
- If you do not use these official
subject headings when SUBJECT searching the Library Catalog,
you will not
get good results.
- By AUTHOR
- Using
the exact name of a person or group who wrote (authored) or was
in other ways responsible for the intellectual, creative,
or artistic content
of a book or other item (media, etc.) in the RCCD Library collection(authored)
by a person
or
group
("corporate
authors")
- By TITLE
- Using
the specific title of a book or other item (media, etc.) in the
RCCD Library
collection.
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MAGAZINE & JOURNAL
ARTICLES
- KEYWORDS = Words you’re thinking of to describe
information you need.
- SUBJECT HEADINGS = Words and phrases experts use in respective databases to describe
information about any aspect of human life and interest.
NEWSPAPER
ARTICLES TOO!
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Click on LAMP’s
Electronic Resources,
Periodical Indexes,
then on one of the 17 indexes
listed.
- Start with a good “general interest” index – that has articles on
all topic of human life, interest, and endeavor, like Expanded
Academic ASAP.
- From its initial screen, set to KEYWORD search, in the textbox, type
words and phrases you think of to describe topics of your interest.
- You may have to try different words and phrases that more or less
mean the same thing, describe the same topic.
- From the results list, look at the full description of items of interest
to you and note the LINKS (subject headings) assigned (if listed)
at the end of the citations or full-text articles in Expanded Academic
ASAP.
- If subject LINKS are listed, click on those that most closely describe
the topic you’re researching.
- What results is a list of other articles indexed by Expanded Academic
ASAP that have been assigned that same subject heading.
You can also try
to determine official indexing terms (subject headings) used in Expanded
Academic ASAP, by clicking on SUBJECT GUIDE in the left column of
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WEB SITES
- Use WEB SUBJECT DIRECTORIES to find sites giving good, authentic,
authoritative, reliable information.
- Evaluate information you get from the Web – however, when you use
a Web subject directory, the Web sites listed have already
been evaluated.
- Learn more about good Web searching – for example, by going to: http://www.walthowe.com
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Click on LAMP’s
Internet Resources, Internet By Subject.
- What results is a table of topics/categories. When you click these
a list of reviewed and recommended Web sites appears – reviewed
and recommended by RCCD librarians as Web sites that give good,
authoritative information.
- For other “Web subject directories” go to LAMP’s Internet Resources
page, click on the first box, “Internet Search Tools,” and third
section down the page, “Subject Directories.”
- Also, click on LAMP’s
Internet Resources, Evaluating Resources – the
Web sites listed will explain how to think critically about and
assess Web information.
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