| Overview
of Library Resources | Search
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What type of resource
do you need to use?
Books, Print journals,
Videos, CDs, & other media
- Library
catalog (Quick Tip
sheet)
how
to search for materials by title.
Subject
or keyword search?
Beyond
TCC?
More about call numbers, Library
of Congress classification, and finding
books.
Videos for hearing impaired? Use keyword search
"closed captioned"
Videos for visually impaired? Use keyword search "audio
description"
Use a library
catalog to identify books, magazines, journals,
and audio-visual materials that are OWNED by the library.
Ownership may include direct links to individual titles
in electronic format.
Articles
or Full Text Online
- full
text databases
- indexes and databases information
- online journals
by title, subject, or vendor using MetaLinc
how
to search for the article in my citation.
how
to search for an article in General OneFile.
Articles are found
in periodicals. A periodical
is any publication--magazine, journal, newspaper--
that is issued
periodically
more than once a year. Just
as some
books have indexes to
point you
to the
pages for your topic, indexes
and databases
identify which periodicals
have which articles. Some
indexes
and databases include
abstracts
(short summaries)
of articles
and some include full text (complete) articles.
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- News & Newspapers Databases
Just as many books have indexes to point you to the
page for your topic, indexes and databases, which may
include
newspaper sources, point you to the newspaper article
citing the newspaper, date, page, and sometimes column. Some
resources include abstracts (short summaries) of articles
and some include full text (complete) articles.
Indexes & Databases
by Subject
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Specialized (subject) periodicals indexes and databases
are used to locate articles on broad topics such as art,
general science, humanities, or education. These indexes
provide more extensive coverage of their topics than do
general indexes and databases.
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- Library
catalog identifies whether TCC has a
subscription to the individual periodical title
in print format
or electronic format.
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- Reference online
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Subject
encyclopedias ( examples)
are great places to start your research.
In our library
catalog do a keyword search for encyclopedia
and your subject, i.e. encyclopedia and biography.
You can also
do a title search
for books that begin with "Encyclopedia
of ...".
Assistance is often needed when using any
reference resource
so do not hesitate to ask a library staff member
for help.
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Reference books may
be found by searching the library catalog and are identified
with an "REF" at the beginning of the call number. When you
find a call number for your topic search the same call number
area in the reference shelves.
Reference materials are generally used to provide
quick information, provide an overview of a topic, "refer" the
patrons to other resources, and must be used in the library.
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Created by TCC librarians, each guide provides call number
areas to browse for books, specific library resources to
use, and some of the best Internet sites on the web. Government,
Literature, and Searching the Internet are just a few of
our guides.
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