7400.685.080 HOMEWORK - Library Exercise #1

Name _______________________________

Team Up or Go It Alone - but don't split up the work! Find the answers to the questions below before the start of our next class. Use the UA Library's Main Page http://www.uakron.edu/libraries/index.php to find the UA Online Catalog at http://library.uakron.edu/screens/opacmenu.html

1. Find the Author, Call Number and Availability Status of a biography of a man named Willie Dixon. From the very brief information that results from your search, what can you say about was the significance of Mr. Dixon's Life?

Author ________________________________

Call Number & Availability__________________________________________

Who was Mr. Dixon________________________________________________________

2. Now go back to the UA Library's Main Page and find Electronic Resources. There click on a link called Article Indexes and Databases. You are looking for Dissertation Abstracts Online, which can be found in the Alphabetical List of Indexes and Databases. Click on the Dissertation Abstracts link. Here, you are to find the dissertation titles/years/institution of three of your instructors (the one's with Ph.d's after their names) and the dissertation titles/years/institutions for the following people: William Cosby Jr. and Newt(on) Gingrich.

Inst #1.___________________________________________________________________

Inst #2._____________________________________________________________________

Inst #3._____________________________________________________________________

Cosby_________________________________Gingrich______________________________

3. Switch over to OhioLINK from the UA Library main menu and find out which libraries hold the book title "San Antonio Rose" by author Townsend.

Who is this book about?_______________________________________________

Which Libraries have this book?

4. While in OhioLink search for the keywords "Ellen Swallow Richards" in quotations and list out the reference information of the listing that tells you who she was.
Reference information: _________________________________________________________________

Who was she?

5. Now go back to the UA Library's Main Page and find Electronic Resources. There click on a link called Article Indexes and Databases. You are looking for the Psych INFO Database
Find the reference information of two articles that uses the Conflict Tactics Scale.__________________________________________________

6. Look over the Article Indexes and Databases for your area of concentration. Which sections are relevant to your scholarly interests? _________________________________

7. Find the Social Science Citation Index in the Artcle Indexes and Databases. Just play around with the citation abilities by finding an important article and:
-listing the citations this article used
-listing all the work that cites this article

-Now look up some of your instructors
I'll go over this in class to give you some pointers.

7. Go back to the UA Library Main, and find out the title of the most important scholarly journal in your area of interest?
What is the title of the journal you found?:

What is the Call Number of that journal
Go to the library (physically take yourself to the Bierce library building and find out:

    Where your journal physically resides in the library?
       What are the titles of the journals on either side of your journal on the library shelf?
       What color is the binding used by our library for this journal ?

8. What is the name of the Reference Librarian assigned to the School of Family and Consumer Sciences?

When is he/she available for consultation on library researchfor students?

Name & Office Hours___________________________________________________

Your assignment is now completed - turn in hard copy at the next class meeting.
-ddw