Thursday, February 18, 2016

Blog 03 Library Notes


Searching for keywords gives you results similar to how Google search works. 
Subject lines aren’t very intuitive 
You can limit search results to SJSUS and King Library
Subject headings can be very controversial 
For example, if you type in Japanese Internment it changes to “Japanese American Evacuation”
Folio collection is for larger sized books. Art books tend to be oversized
Copyright. Supreme court has historically recognized that when the door to the classroom closes it’s a protected space.
Fair use covers you if it’s limited in a way. 
Educational use is protected and public use isn’t
Takes around 3-4 business days to transfer books to the SJSU library from other libraries. 
Link + fines are almost a $1 fine per day late.
You can specific to only get peer reviewed journals in your search results
Ref works is a helpful bibliography management tool. Easy bib another similar tool

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