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Contact: Joanne_Jalley@ivcc.edu
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LIB 1000: Research StrategiesUnit 1 Guided Exercise:
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| Throughout this exercise I will highlight and explain key components of the site, and ask you to respond to basic questions. Questions are highlighted with tan backgrounds. Navigational actions are highlighted in green. |
| Go to Jacobs Library site at http://www.ivcc.edu/library |
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the top of the screen is some general navigational assistance. This
area lets you know that you are at the IVCC site and provides an email
contact for Jacobs Library. You may email the library
*With
questions about services You should not call the library intending that they will conduct your research. Jacobs Library staff members are happy to teach people how to do research. |
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What
is the email address for Jacobs Library? 2. What is the phone number of the library? |
| On the left side of the screen there is further navigational assistance. At the bottom of the web page are additional library links. |
| At the bottom of the library homepage select About Jacobs Library |
| About Jacobs Library links to general policies, operating hours, telephone contacts, and other information about the library and its collections. |
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3. What must a student present to check out a book at IVCC? 4. Are people who are not student at IVCC allow to check out books from our library, and if so, are there any restriction on what they can take out? 5. How long can you check out a most books for from Jacobs Library? You are able to renew books yourself over the Internet. How many times can you renew a book? |
| Go back to the Jacobs Library Home page and at the bottom of the page select Depository. |
| Jacobs Library was named a
Federal Library Depository in 1975 by Congress. As a Federal and State
Depository the library is provided free-of-charge a portion of the items
published by the Federal and State of Illinois governments. The Depository link provides you with information about the federal and state depository libraries that are housed at Illinois Valley Community College. The Government Sites link for the library home page provide links to some of the most requested government information sources. |
| 6. Jacobs Library is a Federal and State Depository for government publications. What is the duty of our library concerning these government publications? |
| Go back to the Jacobs Library Home page and select Local Information / Local History from the menu. |
| Local Information describes the IVCC Local History Collection, provides a list of topics for which the library maintains files, and links to area community and school Web pages. |
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The main section of the library home page has links to the major groupings of resources available at Jacobs Library. Library Catalog - links directly to the library's online catalog. Books - links from this page direct you to various
sources for searching for books. Magazines - links to the magazine databases that the
library subscribes to. Other Library Resources - other resources the
library subscribes to Internet Resources - links to resources on the
internet that the library staff have found to be of value Government Sites - links to some of the more requested government information For Students - items designed to aid our students For Faculty & Staff - information for the faculty and staff Local Information / Local History On the library home page Library Catalog is the IVCC online catalog and can be viewed from any computer with internet access. An online catalog essentially replaces the old card catalog with which some of you may be familiar. An online catalog allows you to
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| From the Jacobs Library Home page, select the link to the Books page. The first link on that page is to the Library Catalog. Click on the link. IVCC belongs to a consortium called CARLI with many other college and university libraries in Illinois. As an IVCC student you have access to all of the resources in all of the libraries that are part of our CARLI consortium. You can search the IVCC catalog or search for books in the all of the libraries that are part of our consortium. The large catalog containing the books in all of the CARLI libraries is called I-Share. Scroll to the bottom of the page to answer the next question. |
| 7. How many libraries are part of our consortium? |
| Go back to the library's Books page to answer the following question. If you are in the online catalog, it may be easiest for you to click on the back arrow at the top of the page. |
| 8. Which resource will lead you to books available in public libraries in the Illinois Valley area? |
| Go back to the Jacobs Library home page and click on the Magazines link. |
| Most of the items listed are periodicals databases. You may have used the Reader's Guide to General Periodical Literature in your public library or high school library. These tools are indexes to articles published in journals and magazines. A periodicals database allows you to search by subject and usually allows you to limit your search to a particular magazine title and a date range. Some indexes even allow you to limit your search to a type of article, like a review or a recipe. You can learn more about periodical indexes in Unit 3 of Research Strategies. |
| 9. All of the libraries magazine/journal databases are available from off-campus. As the library pays a subscription fee for these databases, they need to be certain you are an IVCC student. If you are accessing any of these from off-campus, what information will you be prompted for before you will have access to these magazine/journal databases? |
| Go back to the Jacobs Library home page find the section labeled "Useful Web Sites" |
| This section directs you to resources recommended by the librarians at Jacobs Library. In consulting with the librarians you will find that each has his or her own favorite Web sites. Those listed on the home page are links what could probably be classified as search directories. What makes them different to other search directories is that the sites to which they refer are evaluated by librarians before they are listed with the service. You will find that each of these is quite comprehensive. Rather than creating a huge directory of links for library users, Jacobs Library staff have instead decided to rely upon the efforts of other librarians who already do this well. Therefore the list of Useful Web Sites not lengthy, though you are sure to find many reliable sources. |
| Select "Librarian's Index to the Internet". |
| As many of you know, anyone can put anything on the Internet. Even for reliable web sites, the job of constantly updating can be challenging, sometime making web sites that the Internet surfer finds not to meet the criteria for determining the value of a web site. The "Librarian's Index to the Internet" takes the job of evaluating a web site out of your hands. Only web sites that they have evaluated and found acceptable will be listed in your search findings on this site. As a consequence, however, you will not receive the large number of hits as you would if you were searching using Google or another search engine. The sites you do receive on the "Librarian's Index to the Internet" have already been evaluated for you and you can trust them as reliable, quality sites. |
| Go back to the Jacobs Library home page. |
| 10. What is the library mission statement? |
| I hope you have learned a little about the
electronic resources available at IVCC. To learn more about the many
print resources available to you visit the About Jacobs Library page,
complete the Research Strategies course, or contact the library at
815-224-0306. Type your answers in a word document and save it as Rich Text Format (rtf). Send it to your instructor via the Digital Dropbox in Blackboard. Be sure to put your name on your document. |
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