Slides from my literature search workshop for librarians.

1. The
Literature
Search
Aurelie Gandour
Tavistock and Portman NHS
FoundationTrust, London

2. Write either:
– The main thing you’d like to
learn from the session;
– Or a concern or pressing
question you have.

3. Look at the card you now have.
If you agree with what’s written
on it, or have the same question,
place a tick on the right side.

4. Keywords

5. Activity…
• Come up with a search topic
Tip: try and think of questions from students
that have come up in the past.
Make your topic slightly complex (it should
contain at least 3 different concepts).
• Write your topic at the top of a sheet of
paper.

6. Activity…
• Exchange topics with the other groups!
• Read your new topic.
Analyse the concepts its made of and come up
with as many possible keywords for each of
them as you possibly can.

7. Activity…
• Give your topic to another group!
… and have a look at another group’s topic.
• What do you think of the concepts and
keywords that they came up with?
Can you come up with more?

8. Your search friends:
Boolean Operators

9. Boolean Operators: an exercise
We’re all
Jedi or Sith
A New
Static
Induction
Thyristor
(SITh)
Analytical
Model
Who Wins:
Yoda or
Sith? A
Proof that
Financial
Markets are
Seldom
Efficient
“Only a Sith
Thinks Like
That”:
Llewellyn’s
“Duelling
Cannons”, 1
to 7
Cryogenic
operation of
static
induction
(SIT/SITh)
devices
Switching
performanc
es of SITh
with buried-
gate
structure
Sith NOT Induction

10. Boolean Operators: an exercise
We’re all
Jedi or Sith
Who Wins:
Yoda or
Sith? A
Proof that
Financial
Markets are
Seldom
Efficient
“Only a Sith
Thinks Like
That”:
Llewellyn’s
“Duelling
Cannons”, 1
to 7
Switching
performanc
es of SITh
with buried-
gate
structure
Sith NOT Induction

11. From Death
Rays to
Light
Sabers:
Making
Laser
Weapons
Surgically
Precise
High-risk
Lead
Extraction:
The Blade
and the
Lightsaber
Making a
light-saber:
a story
The
butcher, the
baker, the
light saber
maker
Squirrel
lightsaber: a
species
neutralizing
rattlesnake
venom
Lightsaber
OR
Light Saber
Boolean Operators: an exercise

12. High-risk
Lead
Extraction:
The Blade
and the
Lightsaber
The
butcher, the
baker, the
light saber
maker
Squirrel
lightsaber: a
species
neutralizing
rattlesnake
venom
Lightsaber
OR
Light Saber
Boolean Operators: an exercise

13. The Science
of Star
Wars:
integrating
technology
Using Star
Wars’
supporting
characters
to teach
about
psychopa-
thology
The
Adoption of
Buddhist
Motifs in
Star Wars
The boycott
of Star Wars
by
academic
scientists
Discursive
Choices:
Boycotting
Star Wars
between
Science and
Politics
Star Wars AND Science
The
butcher, the
baker, the
lightsaber
maker
Boolean Operators: an exercise

14. The Science
of Star
Wars:
integrating
technology
Discursive
Choices:
Boycotting
Star Wars
between
Science and
Politics
Star Wars AND Science
Boolean Operators: an exercise

15. The Science
of Star
Wars:
integrating
technology
Discursive
Choices:
Boycotting
Star Wars
between
Science and
Politics
Star Wars AND Science
Boolean Operators: an exercise
The boycott
of Star Wars
by
academic
scientists

16. Quotation
marks

17. Truncation

18. Wildcard

19. • Get in pairs
• Draw a set of 3 resources
• Try and figure out if you
can use those three
tools in each database

20. Fields

21. • Get in pairs
• Use the same 3 resources as in the last activity
• Look up each resource: can you use fields in
them?
• For each resource, note the 5 most useful
fields you could recommend to students

22. Limiters

23. • Get in pairs
• Use the same 3 resources as in the last activity
• Look up each resource: can you use limiters in
them?
• For each resource, note the 5 most useful
limiters you could recommend to students

24. Thesaurus

25. • Pick a database and suggested
keywords
• Access the database’s thesaurus
• Draw a « family tree » for one of the
suggested keywords, including
broader terms, narrowers terms, and
related terms.

26. Break!

28. Guided Search

29. Search Equation Puzzle
Keyword
Title
Author
Subject
term
Create search
equations based
on this topic…

30. Have a look at your 3 databases.
Could you write this kind of complex search
equation in one of them?
Where? How?

32. What does a
user’s question
look like?

33. Examples:
• How to get children to help each other in
kindergarten?
• Family office vs. private banking in
Luxembourg
• EU’s charter of fundamental rights and is
influence on tax law

34. • Get in groups
• Associate different
types of users with
different types of
results.
>>Which type of results
would you recommend for
which type of users?

35. Which Resource for Which User?
• Get in groups
• In the table, write down 5 different subject
matters
• Associate different types of users with
different types of resources.
>>Which type of resources would you use to
help which type of users?

36. • Get in pairs
• Decide who will be the « student » and who will
be the « librarian »
• Students, look up what’s on your card…
• Librarians, try and answer their question!
• Go!

37. Break!

38. The needs of a
thorough search…

39. Federated
searches…

40. An iterative process…

41. Following
the thread

42. Activity: Action Plan
Topic suggestion:
“Students dropping out of school, the
relationship between schools and families, and
how parents of foreign origin are perceived.”
Deadline: the search needs to be completed
before 1/07/2016

43. Advanced functions
of databases

44. • Get in pairs.
• Go through at least 5 databases and check if
they offer the following advanced functions:
– Search history
– Saving searches
– Saving results
– Creating email alerts
– Generating RSS feeds

45. Questionnaire

46. Thank you for
coming!

47. Attribution for images used in this presentation