Powerpoint reviewing library research for ED 690 - Teacher as Researcher

1. Teacher as Researcher
Library Instruction for ED 690, Spring
2012
Photo by Steven De Polo

2. Objectives
Develop an awareness of the different
library resources available for education
research
Generate search terms and organize your
search strategy
Become familiar with basic and advanced
search features in databases in order to
search the journal literature

3. Library Research Guide
• Research guides will help you
choose encyclopedias,
databases, journals, and other
resources for your education
research
• Start at the Library Homepage
– http://www.pace.edu/library
• Under “Library Services” click
on Research Guides
– Choose Education from the
Subject list Or access the guide
directly at:
– Search for or scroll to: “Teacher
as Researcher: Action Research” libguides.pace.edu/
ActionResearch

4. Using the Pace Library Catalog
• The Pace Library Catalog lists the books, e-books, movies and
other materials owned by the Pace Library
– There are two ways to search the catalog
Classic catalog
Encore

5. Tips for using Encore to search the
catalog
• Start with a broad search
• Use the tags on the right to narrow your search
• While you’re browsing, you can click on the
“Add to List” link to keep track of items you were
interested in
• When you find a book that looks interesting, look at the record and click
on the relevant subject heading to find more books and materials on that
subject

6. • Use the Request It button to get books from other Pace campuses
• Takes 1-2 business days. You will get an e-mail when the book arrives and it
can be picked up at the circulation desk.
• Use the Connect NY button to find resources from other universities
• Takes 3-5 business days. You will get an e-mail when the book arrives and it
can be picked up at the circulation desk.
• When you’re in Connect NY (it will open in another tab or window) use the
WorldCat link to find books available through InterLibrary Loan

7. Organizing your search strategy
• Sample question:
• What factors affect the intrinsic motivation of
socioeconomically challenged middle-school
students?
• Step 1: eliminate extraneous words
• Step 2: pull out key words
Concept A Concept B Concept C
intrinsic motivation socioeconomically middle-school students
challenged

8. Organizing your search strategy, cont.
• Step 3: brainstorm synonyms for your key
words
– Note: you may continue to add synonyms and
subject headings as you search

9. Using Databases to find Articles
From the library
home page, click on
Databases: Find an
Article
Recommended Databases:
Education Other
ERIC PsycInfo
Education Abstracts Academic Search
Professional Development Premier
Collection Jstor

10. Boolean Operators

11. Boolean Operators & Search Tips
• Use “OR” to connect related or synonymous terms within a single search
box, this widens your search
• Parentheses: be sure to group OR terms within parentheses, eg. (“special
education” OR “special needs”)
• Use “AND” to narrow search results by combining key concepts
– Eg. motivation AND “socioeconomically challenged” AND “middle
school”
• Asterisk: retrieves all alternate endings, eg. disab* retrieves disability,
disabled, disabilities, etc.
• Quotation marks retrieves that exact phrase, eg. “social media”

12. Limiting your search
• In Ebsco databases (eg. ERIC and PsycInfo) you can
limit your search in 2 ways
From the Advanced After getting
Search screen a set of
results

13. Finding Subject headings in PsycInfo
• To review How and Why to use the Thesaurus
in PsycInfo, view this video:
– http://tinyurl.com/axvbybr

14. Finding Full-Text Documents
 In ERIC, if it is a book, search for the book title in the catalog
to see if the book is available from Pace or Connect NY
 For articles (in all databases) use the Search for Article button

15. Finding Full-Text Documents
After clicking Search for Article, if you see:
Note: you need a library
barcode to create an
InterLibrary Loan account

16. To get more help
• The library home page:
www.pace.edu/library
• Use the Ask-a-
Librarian link
• Under “Library
Services”
– Video tutorials
– How do I?
– Research Guides
• E-mail Jennifer!
jrosenstein@pace.edu
• Stop by or call the
reference desk
(the desk under the big
Information sign in the
middle of the library)
• (212) 346-1331

17. Quiz Time!
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