Week 5 of Intro to Information Services class on books & bibliographic sources by Dr, Lorri Mon at FSU SLIS, Florida's iSchool http://slis.fsu.edu/

1. “Books & Bibliographic Search”
LIS 5603, Intro to Information Services
Dr. Lorri Mon, FSU SLIS, Florida’s iSchool
College of Communication & Information

2. Indexes/Databases by Subject
FSU Libraries
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/

3. Questions requiring Bibliographic Resources
• I need the book The Pearl. 1. existence
• I need books by S.R. Ranganathan. -- and --
2. location
• I need a book on bear attacks.
• I need books by Native American authors.
• I enjoyed Red Mars. What should I read next?
• What was that book about the talking pig?
• What’s the best selling novel right now?
• Where can I find Caldecott award winners?
• Where can I learn about The Great Gatsby?

4. Structure of Bibliographic Records
100 1 Gibbons, Susan|q(Susan L.),|d1970-
245 10 E-Book functionality :|bwhat libraries and their patrons
want and expect from electronic books /|cSusan Gibbons,
Thomas A. Peters, Robin Bryan
260 Chicago ;|aLondon :|bAmerican Library Association,|cc2003
300 iii, 138 p. ;|c28 cm
440 0 LITA guides ;|v10
500 Includes index
650 0 Library users
650 0 Libraries and students
650 0 Electronic books|zUnited States
650 0 Electronic information resource literacy
700 1 Bryan, Robin
700 1 Peters, Thomas A.,|d1957-
Searching a surrogate; keyword search to subject heading
MARC records http://www.loc.gov/marc/

5. Where
Catalogs – Location to Find It
Catalog characteristics: • “Holdings” of a library (
•Controlled language
(shared/universal) FSU Catalog)
•Standard classification
•Call numbers – Of a regional consortium of
•Locations libraries (UBorrow)
ARCHIVES – a whole • Of a national library (LOC)
collection of books, letters, – Of a nation’s libraries (
manuscripts & photos can be national union catalog)
listed as one item » Of libraries worldwide (e.g.,
in a catalog (e.g. Archives-USA OCLC Worldcat)
, NUCMUC, Worldcat).
“interlibrary loan or interlending”
PLUS: fulltext subscription book collections: NetLibrary, ebrary, Safari

6. Uborrow (FL Statewide Union Catalog)
http://union.catalog.fcla.edu/ux.jsp

7. Library of Congress Catalog
http://catalog.loc.gov/

8. NUCMUC –
Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

9. OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat
https://proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/wcfs

10. Catalog Searching
“concept analysis”
General to Keyword Searching:
Specific Unmarried Adults
Leads to Subject Heading: Can Use: Boolean
operators, fielded
Single People
searching, nesting,
proximity, wild cards,
etc.
Leads to LC call number
area: HQ 800.4

11. Issues about Catalogs - Schemes
S – Agriculture
Library of Congress T – Technology
U – Military Science
A – General
V – Naval Science
B – Philosophy/Psych/Religion
Z – Bibliography, Library Science
C – Archaeology/Genealogy
D – History: General/Old World Dewey Decimal
E,F – History: America
G – Geog, Anthro, Recreation 000 – General
H – Social Science 100 – Philosophy
J – Political Science 200 – Religion
K – Law 300 – Social Science
L – Education 400 – Language
M – Music 500 – Natural Science
N – Fine Arts 600 – Useful Arts
P – Language & Literature 700 – Fine Arts
Q – Science 800 – Literature
R – Medicine 900 – History, Biography
Dewey Decimal (1876) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12513/12513-h/12513-h.htm
LC Classification http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

12. Dewey Decimal Classification
Historic & geographic sociology
Sociology
Arabs & Maltese
301.1543012917492705694 Palestine / Israel
Opinions Ethnic region
23-digit Dewey call number for:
ARAB ATTITUDES TOWARD ISRAEL
by Yehoshafat Harkabi
301.1543012917492705694
Madison Public Library http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/kann/humor.html

13. Anatomy of a Call Number
J=Political Y4=Congress.
LC SuDOC
Science House. Hearing.
JK468.A8 G643 2002 Y 4.SCI 2:106-92
JK=Political
institutions & public SCI=Committee
administration, U.S. on Science.
Location = Regular stacks; Reference stacks; Warehouse, etc.

14. Things Not in Catalogs
Most OPACs date back to 1970’s-1980’s –
downloadable MARC records.
So – sometimes not in catalogs are: items in
the collection predating the 1970’s;
Special collections, rare and unusual items;
Items with different cataloging systems for
which MARC records were not available
(e.g. state or city government documents)

15. Bibliographies - Existence What
Exists
• Works of scholarship and expertise
• Respected, venerable source – “Guide to
Reference Books”
• Can be prescriptive as well as descriptive
– Defining extent of a domain or topic
– Identifying the most important works
– Recommending content for a collection
• Bibliographies …
– and Bibliographies of Bibliographies
Example of what can be found in bibliographies:
A Bio-Bibliography of Native American Authors lists
little-known published works by American Indian
authors of the 1800’s and turn of the century.

16. Gale Literature Resource Center
https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tall85761?db=LitRC

17. Gale Books and Authors
https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/menu/start?prod=BNA&userGroupName=tall85761

18. Bowker Books in Print
https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://www.booksinprint.com/bip/

19. Book Review Digest (in Ebsco)
https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bqh

20. NetLibrary EbscoHost Ebooks
https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?profile=ehost&defaultdb=nlebk

21. What
Bibliographic Sources Exists
• Bowker’s Books in Print • Book Review Digest
• Encyclopedia Britannica (example: reviews of
– bibliographies Faulkner’s The Sound
• Reader’s Advisory & The Fury, 1929)
Sources ( • Gale Literature
What Do I Read Next Resource Center
?, AllReaders.com • Gale Books and
etc.) Authors
• Library catalogs & • NetLibrary, Amazon,
union catalogs Google Books,
(WorldCat) HathiTrust (etc.)
Contemporary Authors, Something About the Author, and other bio sources on
authors may include writings, contact info, biographic information and literary reviews

22. Amazon
http://www.amazon.com

23. Amazon Advanced Search
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Search-Books/b/ref=sv_b_0?ie=UTF8&node=241582011

24. Google Books
Note the “Get this
Book in Print” link
http://books.google.com

25. AllReaders
http://allreaders.com

26. Next Due Dates
• Mon, Oct 8: Question Set (email to
instructor)
Answering each question with 3 different
sources: web, index, books/bibliographic
• Mon, Oct 15: IPL2 Question #1 (first “real
user” question