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Discovery Task 6: Putting It All Together

Part 1: Understanding Call Numbers and Subject Headings

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

1.  Begin to define your topic.  You must have an idea of what you are looking for before you can start searching.  As you learn more about what is available on your topic, the definition will change.  Write a sentence that describes your topic.

Example:  I am interested in learning more about the concept of transnationalism, especially as it applies to Southern California.

Write a sentence that describes your topic:

2.  Look at the sentence you just wrote and circle or highlight the two or three most distinctive or unique words in your sentence.  Do not highlight common or ambiguous words.

Example: :  I am interested in learning more about the concept of globalization, especially as it applies to Southern California.

Write the distinctive or unique words from your sentence here:

3.  Access the UCI Libraries' ANTPAC catalog at antpac.lib.uci.edu .

4.  ANTPAC offers several ways to look for information.  Select a Keyword search to get started.  Enter the word that you decided describe your topic.

Enter the number of records your search retrieved:__________________________________

5.  Browse the list of titles you found and evaluate your results.  Do these titles seem to be on the subject you had in mind?  Do some of the titles seem better than others for your topic?  Do any of the titles suggest particular aspects of your topic that might be of interest to you?

Here is an example of the titles that the previous search retrieved:

Record 1 of 6

TITLE        Los Angeles and the future of urban cultures : a special issue f

               American Quarterly / edited by Raúl Homero Villa and George J.

               Sánchez.

IMPRINT      Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Record 2 of 6

TITLE        Critical theories, radical pedagogies, and global conflicts /

               [edited by] Gustavo Fischman ... [et al.]

IMPRINT      Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.

CALL #       LC196 .C77 2005.
Record 3 of 6

AUTHOR       Bardhan, Ashok Deo, 1957-

TITLE        Globalization and a high-tech economy : California, the United

               States, and beyond / by Ashok Deo Bardhan, Dwight M. Jaffee,

               Cynthia A. Kroll.

IMPRINT      Boston, Mass. : Kluwer, c2004.

CALL #       HC79.H53 .B37 2004.

6.  Select one title that looks like it will be a good source of information on your topic.  

Here is the full record for Record 3 from the example.

As you know from previous Discovery Tasks, this record provides bibliographic (author, title, place of publication, publisher, date of publication) location (library and call number), and content (title, subject headings-Subj-lcsh) information.

7.  Print a copy of the record you chose and attach it to this assignment. 

Write the call number for your book here:________________________________________________________

8.  Look for the subject headings (Subj-lcsh) that were given to this work.

Write the subject headings for your book here:

You can see that the subject headings are links.  Click on the subject heading that seems the most closely related to your topic.

Record the number of records found with that subject heading_____________________.

Browse the list of titles to determine if any of these titles might be useful to you.

9.  The end result of all this work is that you will have to come to the library to get the book.  Check the record for  the book you printed and record the following:

My book is in the ________________________ Library.

The call number for my book is_____________________________________.

10.   The call number for the book determines its location.  There is a Guide to Call Number and Subject Locations for the Langson and Science Libraries on the UCI Libraries HomePage at:

http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/callnos.html

According to the Guide to Call Number and Subject Locations, my book will be on the _________ floor

of the ________________ Library.

Discovery Task 6 Part 2: Putting It All Together

PROBLEM:  The final discovery task assignment for the Humanities Core Course is to write a research paper on a specific aspect of  the global exchange of ideas, persons, or products across national borders that takes place or has taken place here in Southern California, in Orange County, or at UCI..  The information in research papers is drawn from a variety of sources such as course lectures, books, journal articles, scholarly websites, and subject encyclopedias. Discovery Tasks 1 through 5 introduced you to these types of sources.  You will base your research paper primarily on information from books and scholarly journal articles.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE:  The final part of this Discovery Task will review and reinforce your ability to locate information in scholarly journals.  It will require you 1) to use a periodical indexes such as America: History and Life or Web of Science to find articles on a topic and 2) remind you of the availability of scholarly journals in electronic format through JSTOR and Project Muse.

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

1.  Review your completed Discovery Tasks, particularly Discovery Task 3: Using Periodical Indexes To Find Information About Journal Articles and Discovery Task 4: Using Electronic Journals To Find Information on a Topic.

2.  Review the topic definition that you developed while looking for books on your subject.

3.  There are many sources that will be helpful when looking for articles on the topics of "transnationalism" and "global networks."  Some suggestions for databases to search are:

§         America: History and Life

§         Web of Science (covers all subject areas, not just science)

§         Expanded Academic ASAP

Use the Subject Guides (http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subject.php) and the Ask a Librarian (ask.lib.uci.edu) services to get recommendations for databases to use for specific topics.

A.  Access the UCI Libraries' Homepage by entering the URL: http://www.lib.uci.edu/

B.  Click on Online Resources.

C.  Enter the name of the database you want to use in the search box.

D.  Select the link to the database.  For example, you can click on the title "Web of Science" or the url for             the database in the illustration below.

F.  Enter your keywords in the search form and press the search button.  Entering the keywords "transnational*" and "Southern California" resulted in this list of references.

4.  Scroll through the list of references and decide which ones will be the most useful for you.  The best clues to the content of the articles are the Title and information from the Full Entry.

5.  You can use the UC-eLinks tool to find the full text or a print copy of the article.

UC-eLinks provides a way to move easily from an article or book citation to the full online content of the item. It also allows you to look for a UC library location of print materials, or to request an item through interlibrary loan.

UC-eLinks is currently available through most of the journal article citation databases licensed by the UC libraries. When you display the results from a search, you will see the UC-eLinks icon with each citation. Click on the UC-eLinks icon, and you will have several options:

• Link to the full electronic text if the item is licensed by UC and available electronically.
• Link to the Antpac and Melvyl catalogs to determine whether or not the library owns a particular item in print or electronic format.
• Request items that are not available at UCI through interlibrary loan.
• Ask for help from a librarian through UCI's online reference service, Ask a Librarian.
• Report problems with UC-eLinks using an online form.

6.  You will need to record the following information for each article you decide use in your paper.

You need the information requested below to locate a journal in the library.  Remember, not all journals are available electronically.  Fill in the form for the print journals you need to locate.