Library Information Tutorial: Everyday Search

1. EVERYDAY SEARCH

2. EVERYDAY SEARCH
Do you have a computer at
home?

3. EVERYDAY SEARCH
Do you have a laptop?

4. EVERYDAY SEARCH
Do you have a tablet?

5. EVERYDAY SEARCH
Do you have a mobile
phone?

6. EVERYDAY SEARCH
Is your mobile phone always
with you?

7. EVERYDAY SEARCH
Can your mobile phone
browse the Internet?

8. EVERYDAY SEARCH
If you answered yes to any
of these questions you
probably search every
day.

9. EVERYDAY SEARCH
Perhaps you use different
methods and strategies,
depending on your need.

10. EVERYDAY SEARCH
And chances are, you do
this all without thinking, as if
was second nature.

11. BUT
How effective are your
searches?

12. BUT
How do you know you are
finding the best information?

13. BUT
When do you stop
searching?

14. BUT
Is there more out there you
just aren't finding?

15. BUT
If you don't find it right away
on Google does it mean it
doesn't exist?

16. A FAMILIAR SCENE
You are hanging out with
some friends and someone
asks a question.

17. A FAMILIAR SCENE
What time is that movie
showing?
Where is that theater?
Who's the director?

18. A FAMILIAR SCENE
No one knows the answer,
but quickly someone grabs
a phone and looks it up.

19. A FAMILIAR SCENE
Where they look for the
answer and how they look
for it depend on the
question, but likely they start
somewhere like Google.

20. A FAMILIAR SCENE
We search so frequently
that we rarely take the time
to step back and think about
what we are doing.

21. A FAMILIAR SCENE
Nor do we think too hard
about our methods.

22. TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Unless...

23. TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Unless...
we don't find what we want.
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

24. There can be many reasons
why we don't find what we
want.
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

25. How many pages of results
will you look at?
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

26. How will you revise your
search?
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

27. Will you follow the search
engine's guidance?
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

28. Will you turn to a
specialized source?
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

29. Will you use advanced
search options?
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

30. When will you give up?
TROUBLE IN PARADISE

31. FOR EXAMPLE
A friend recommends a
book called The
Information.

32. FOR EXAMPLE
They think you'll like the
characters.
You have a new iPad, so
you want the eBook.

33. FOR EXAMPLE
I'll just Google it

34. FOR EXAMPLE
So you search Goggle by
typing
The Information

35. FOR EXAMPLE
But....

36. FOR EXAMPLE
There is a recent, popular
non-fiction book by James
Gleick.

37. FOR EXAMPLE
And an album by Beck.

38. FOR EXAMPLE
And a rock band.

39. FOR EXAMPLE
And lots of other stuff.

40. FOR EXAMPLE
And none of this sounds like
the book your friend told
you about.

41. FOR EXAMPLE
So you try again.
This time you search
the information book
or maybe you try
the information ebook

42. HOW ABOUT THIS?
What problems do you think
will happen with these
searches?

43. FOR EXAMPLE
So you think, hummm, who
has lots of books and
ebooks?

44. FOR EXAMPLE
Amazon maybe.

45. FOR EXAMPLE
So you go to Amazon.
You are tired of bad results so you
1. select Books from the drop-down and
2. search the information

46. FOR EXAMPLE
You get a lot of results. The
first one is that Gleick one
again.

47. FOR EXAMPLE
But then there is The
Information by Martin Amis.
This sounds more like it.

48. FOR EXAMPLE
But,
Amazon does not seem to
have an eBook available.
So what now?

49. WHAT WOULD
YOU DO?

50. LESSONS
By choosing to go to
Amazon we decided to use
a specialized tool.

51. LESSONS
Then we used an effective
strategy by looking only at
books.

52. LESSONS
In academic research, you
will need to figure out when
to use specialized tools too.

53. LESSONS
Choosing to use Amazon is
actually much like choosing
a certain database because
it has extensive coverage
for a particular discipline.

54. LESSONS
Choosing the right tool
for the search is crucial.

55. LESSONS
Choosing the right tool
for the search is crucial.
because the Internet is big
and search engines do not
show you everything

56. LESSONS
Choosing the right tool
for the search is crucial.
because the Internet is big
and search engines do not
show you everything
but more on
this later

57. LESSONS
Using appropriate
strategies to search
efficiently will save you
time.

58. LESSONS
Although our search did not
end at Amazon, we found
the author and added their
name to our search.

59. LESSONS
Then we found the eBook
version from the publisher.

60. LESSONS
Thus making our search
more
accurate

61. LESSONS
Thus making our search
more
accurate
effective

62. LESSONS
Thus making our search
more
accurate
effective
and
efficient.

63. REVIEW
So now you are getting
some ideas about how you
can apply and translate your
everyday search skills to
academic research.

64. NEXT STEPS
You will learn how to take
your skills to the next level,
so that you can use the
library, scholarly databases
and the Internet to their
fullest potential.