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catasters

blueymoons

Not gonna specifically tag anyone...but reblog if you feel like it and put yours in the tags.

m1ssjess

The Orange Mirror by A.J. Aspen

stephanniesissues

The Brown Blanket by C.S. Trumpet

writingwife-83

The Green Pillow by E.C. Birch

hobbitsdoitbetter

The Green Candle by DP Pussywillow

therealbucky05

The black remote by CP Pine

riley1cannon

The Bue Mouse by B.R. Oak

misscrawfords

The Blue Fork by D. R. Oak.

I would not read that novel

chicagobella773

The Grey Ottoman by S. A. Banyan

librarian-unlocked-deactivated2

What advice can you give people who are struggling to find very specific types of articles for an assignment?

Thanks for the ask!

Absolutely I can! I can give a whole lesson on it but I will try to stick to main points. People usually struggle as they do not have a search strategy before they start searching. It is easy to form a search strategy:

1. What are the keywords in your question? Once you have got those, look for synonyms for your keywords.

2. Now have extra keywords! Try to combine different keywords together to get different results.

Why? Because you want more results. Library search systems are not Google. However they are effective systems which can yield the results you want, you just have to use it in a certain way.

I usually do step 1 and 2 in a form of a table, for example, I created this one for a workshop:

3. Use search techniques such as Boolean words:

4. Note how in the poster some words have "" (quotations marks). You can use those to join two words together. For example, video games are two words and the system will search for them that way (i.e. video separately and game separately). You want to put the keywords with quotation marks "video games" so that result you yield are precise. This is called "phrase searching".

5. The best technique to yield the most accurate and precise results is to use the 'refine my results' that is somewhere next to your results. You can refine results by selecting a date range, type of resources, scholarly/peer reviewed and also there is this: Subject/Tags. This little section gives you different topics, keywords and synonyms related to your search terms. This is where you can get subject specific results. It's kinda like using eBay or Amazon. You can refine your results until you get exactly what you are looking for.

6. When you find an article that seems like you have hit the jackpot, look at it's reference list/bibliography. You now have the exact titles of what you can search! Articles these days also give keywords under the abstracts. Use those too!

All the techniques above can be applied to any library search system and databases which you may have access to through your institution.

These can also work on Google btw. And there are many other techniques to manipulate Google results.

Also there are many more techniques for library websites and databases but I have covered here what I feel are the most important ones and common across most platforms.

I hope this answer is helpful and that you find that article you are looking for to ace your assignment :)

iovescngs

― BUT AT LEAST HE FLEW

maclexa

Klaus + talking about Dave

cheshirelibrary

It’s been an increasing source of frustration for many library users: waiting weeks, sometimes months to get to the top of the waiting list for a popular eBook or e-Audiobook.

Why does it take so long? After all, it’s not a physical object, it’s a digital file that lives in the “cloud”, why can’t multiple people access it simultaneously instead of only one at a time? Barring that, why doesn’t the library just buy more copies so that the waiting list is shorter? Getting people access to books and information is what libraries are all about, but the struggle for acquiring lendable e-content is very real, and it’s getting harder all the time. Why? What’s the big hairy deal? For that answer, you have to look to the “Big 5” Publishers, who are responsible for close to 80% of trade book sales.

Publishers have been extremely wary about allowing library users virtual access to their books. After all, digital copies of books never wear out or have to be replaced, and are more vulnerable to unauthorized copying (“pirating”). Publshers were afraid if they allowed libraries access to their books digitally, they would be losing money. Individual publishers came up with their own sets of rules for libraries to access their e-content, and they have been tweaked many times since 2006.

In addition, the prices libraries must pay for ebooks and e-audiobooks is very high. Libraries must pay up to 4X the retail price for digital versions of books (which only one user can have access to at a time). Meeting the library patron’s needs for downloadable content is a very expensive enterprise, indeed! Take a look at this comparison of the prices for various versions of the same book:

It becomes easy to see that acquiring ebooks for public use is a very expensive endeavor…

Read more on The Cheshire Library Blog.

lakecountylibrary

This is something all public libraries in America are struggling with right now. If you need more sources:

Here’s a “mainstream” article on CNN.

This article from LibraryJournal goes into more detail on the problem.

The librarians at Dayton Metro Library have put together a page that’s very quick to read and easy to understand, as well.

And finally, there is research that shows that libraries loaning ebooks actually increases sales of the book.

Here at LCPL, we offer both Overdrive and Hoopla for ebooks and digital audiobooks, and we don’t expect that to change - but you may experience higher wait times as publishers limit our access to content.

underthetweed

This is a fantastic round-up of sources, and very timely–the ALA just launched a campaign against e-book embargoes for libraries. You can go to eBooksForAll.org to sign their petition to Macmillan demanding access for all readers!

thelibrarina

This is a really well-sourced roundup of the chaos that publishers are putting libraries (and library users!) through right now.

If you use your library’s ebook collection or you value open access to information in the 21st century, please consider signing the petition or signal-boosting.