Spring 2013 Dr. Diane Nahl LIS 601 Introduction to Reference and Information Services University of Hawaii Library and Information Science Program

1. LIS 601
Search Strategy
Principles & Tactics
Encyclopedias
Spring 2013
Dr. Diane Nahl
LIS 601 Introduction to Reference and Information Services
University of Hawaii
Library and Information Science Program

2. SW 1B Check:
Review Your Search Results
If needed add typed notes on your Google Doc,
include the five elements below:
1.Search strategy is included for each search (Search
History).
2.Circled or highlighted database name.
3.Circled or highlighted your search terms in the
record.
4.Marked other CV and NL in the record you could use
to improve the search.
5.Evaluated the relevance of the item to the query:
1. On Target, Peripheral, or Off Topic
2. Explain your rating and explain any 0 results
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3. Successive Fractions Strategy
1. Book review of The Cult of Information by Theodore
Roszak. Ebsco Academic Search Premier 9/2012
Search Terms Items
CULT (Default is Select a Field: Title,
Author, Subject Terms, author-supplied 30,787
Keywords, Institution Name, Abstract)
CULT and INFORMATION
2,259
CULT and INFORMATION and ROSZAK 7
CULT and INFORMATION and ROSZAK 0
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4. When to Reduce the Set?
2. Criticism of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
ProQuest MLA Intl. Bibliography 9/2012
Search Statement Terms Items
AWAKENING (ALL: NL + CV) 935
AWAKENING and CHOPIN 422
(ALL: NL + CV)
AWAKENING and KATE and CHOPIN 420
(ALL: NL + CV)
AWAKENING and KATE and CHOPIN’S 167
(ALL: NL + CV)
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5. How to Define the Set?
2. Criticism of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
ProQuest MLA Intl. Bibliography 9/2012
Search Statement Terms Items
CHOPIN, KATE (Subject Heading: 744
MLASU)
CHOPIN, KATE (AU) 0
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6. How to Focus the Set
3. Article on “parents participating in the classroom.”
ProQuest ERIC 9/2012
Search Statement Terms Items
PARENT PARTICIPATION (ALL =NL + CV) 22,884
(treats terms as a phrase & singly with stemming)
PARENT PARTICIPATION 17,804
(ESU Subject/CV)
PARENT PARTICIPATION (ESU/CV) and 5,196 (NL)
CLASSROOM (ALL NL/CV; ESU/CV) 699 (CV)
PARENTS and PARTICIPATING and 615
CLASSROOM (ALL NL/CV)
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7. How to Focus the Set
4. “Scientific study of people who feel bad when the weather
changes.” APA PsycInfo or PsycNet 9/2012
Search Statement Terms Items
(EMOTIONAL STATES) Index Terms 26,831
(EMOTIONAL STATES) Index Terms and
(WEATHER) Any Field 50
(SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER)
Index Terms [864] and 80
(TREATMENT) Index Terms [133,321]
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8. Which is the Best Set?
5. Performance consulting & human performance technology
ProQuest ABI/Inform Global 9/2012
"human performance technology" [624]
AND "performance consulting" [563] 90
(All Fields + Text)
(SU) HUMAN PERFORMANCE [689] AND 50
"performance consulting" [563]
HPT 15,831
"performance consulting" AND HPT 59
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9. How to Focus the Set with CV
6. Chronic fatigue Ebsco CINAHL 9/2012
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME 1707
[Select a Field CV & KW/NL]
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME and
(THERAPY or TREATMENT) 801
[Select a Field CV & KW/NL]
MM FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC
[1162] and MW TREATMENT [94,523] 89
MH FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC
[1572] and MW TREATMENT 103
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10. Which is the Best Set?
Divorce Mediators PsycInfo on PsycNet 9/2012
DIVORCE [CV=Index Terms] 6875
MEDIATION 4201
DIVORCE and MEDIATION 430
[CV=Index Terms]
DIVORCE and MEDIATORS 247
[Default: Any field]
DIVORCE and MEDIATORS and ROLE
[Default: Any field] 43
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11. Earliest Encyclopedic Work
37 volumes, indexed,
categorized with cross-
referenced excerpts
and annotations
“Hail to thee, Nature, thou
parent of all things! and do
thou deign to show thy favour
unto me, who, alone of all the
citizens of Rome, have, in thy
every department, thus made
known thy praise.”
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12. Historic Encyclopedias
 Enkyklios paideia
 77-79 Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia
 1451 printing press invented
 1368-1644 Ming Dynasty Yung Lo Encyclopedia (Yongle)
 Conceptual organization (collocation)
 1701 alphabetical order
 1751-80 Denis Diderot’s L’Encyclopédie
 1768-1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica
 1829 Encyclopedia Americana
 Mid-1980s-1990s electronic encyclopedias
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13. A Few Online Encyclopedias
 Encyclopedia Americana Online
 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
 Encyclopaedia Britannica Online 1994
 Britannica Mobile 2012 http://corporate.britannica.com/apps/
 World Book Online
 World Book Discover 2008 [K-12 easy-read articles]
 Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
 Grove Music Online
 Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 3rd Ed.
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14. Online Community Encyclopedias
 Wikipedia (2001-)
 Founder Jimmy Wales
 Open source model, online community 500k+
 17.5 million entries; 400 million users per
month;14+k searches per second, 6th largest online
site
 Anonymous entries; no experts allowed
 Many languages
 Wikipedia Alexandria Conference 2008
 650 Wikipedians attended
 Inclusionists vs. Exclusionists
 WikiAnswers is not aNahl LIS 601 of Wikipedia
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http://wiki.answers.com/

15. Wikipedian in
Residence at OCLC
 Max Klein, BA Mathematics, UC Berkeley
 Working with OCLC staff and libraries to help foster a
broader understanding of Wikipedia's practices, and
launching an inquiry into what technological integration is
possible …
 While a student, he lead and facilitated a student-run
course on the Politics of Piracy which incorporated editing
on Wikipedia.
 Webinar and slides available: http://oclc.org/research/news/2012/08-31.html
 2011 survey: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/wikipedia-editors-do-it-for-fun-first-results-of-our-2011-editor-survey/
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16. Wikipedia Evaluation Criteria
1. Does the content reflect an accurate
summary of the cited material?
2. How reputable are the cited sources?
3. What information in the cited sources, if any, is
not reflected in the entry?
4. What are the cited authors’ credentials?
5. What biases, if any, does the article reflect?
6. What other sources, if any, does the entry
ignore that are important to the arguments in
the entry?
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17. Online Community Encyclopedias
 Citizendium (2006-11)
 Founder Larry Sanger
 Open source model, online community
 Signed, user-generated, authoritative entries
 Knol (2008-12)
 Google
 Defined as “a unit of knowledge”
 Signed, user-generated entries
 May 12, 2012 site moved to Annotum
 “based on WordPress … allows you to continue
authoring and publishing scholarly articles.”
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18. Evaluating Encyclopedias
[text p. 341]
 Scope  Audience
 Quality of content  Format
 Authority  Cost
 Accuracy  Objectivity
 Currency  Illustrations
 Ease of Use  Index
 Arrangement  Bibliographies
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19. Problems with Encyclopedias
1. Leaving out important entries
2. Shortening or leaving out important
information
3. Objectivity without interpretation
4. Over-emphasizing certain topics
5. Obscure or missing index entries
6. Factual errors
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20. Search Work 2: Encyclopedias
1. Search Work pp. 13-14
2. Do concept analysis to select search terms.
3. Match search topic to sources.
4. Use the 601 Bibliography Encyclopedias
pp. 6-8 to select sources.
5. You may also browse reference shelves to
select sources.
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21. Due Next Week
 Pathfinder on your LibGuide
 Taylor article: PDF online link on syllabus
 Kleugel & Ross article, pp. 37-39 only: online link on
syllabus
 TEXT CHAPTERS 2 & 14
 Handouts pp. 16-19 Reference Interview
 Assignments pp. 7-10 Reference Interactions
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