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Find Books & Scholarly Research Articles from the Library

Dr. Jun WangProfessor of Library & Information Studies

Coordinator of Bibliographic Instruction and Information Literacy

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Student Learning Outcome1. Be able to get on Delta College Library’s website and search the library

catalog and the subscription online Databases on and off campus2. Understand the functions of the library catalog and online databases3. Be able to find books on selected topics in the library catalog4. Be able to conduct a Boolean keyword search in PowerSearch and Ethnic

NewsWatch to find electronic reference books academic research articles5. Be able to evaluate and cite the retrieved sources in MLA style

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Library’s Home Page:http://library.deltacollege.edu

Click here to conduct Catalog or Online Database searches

Find Books on Specific Topics

Conduct a Boolean

logic keyword

search using AND and

OR

A chapter from a book

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Use Boolean logic operators, such as AND and OR to conduct an effective keyword search

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• Disregard the Document URL• Check the MLA Citation Guide at

http://www.deltacollege.edu/dept/library/IC/mla.html

• Tweak the Citation if necessary

Conduct a Boolean logic Keyword Search in the database

Wendt, Doug. “Music Is the Weapon of the Present.” The Beat 1990: 15+. Ethnic

NewsWatch. Web. 14 Aug. 2012.

Tweak the citation using the MLA Citation Guide

MLA Citation Guide at <http://www.deltacollege.edu/dept/library/IC/mla.html>

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Student

Gauging Your Learning Outcome1. How to get on the library’s catalog and subscription online

Databases on and off the campus?2. What are the functions of the library catalog and online

databases?3. How to search for books from the library catalog?4. How to conduct a Boolean keyword search in PowerSearch

and Ethnic NewsWatch to find electronic reference books academic research articles?

5. How to evaluate and cite the retrieved sources in MLA Style?

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