LIS 601 Pathfinder Project

Using Information Structure to Develop Answering Skill

Fall 2010

Lori Bell based on Dr. Diane Nahl’s class/presentation

University of Hawaii LIS Program

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Pathfinder Project

SIT

WITH

YOUR

PATHFINDER

PARTNER

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Pathfinder Project

� Assignment Instructions pp.5-6

1. Select a partner, library, topic & audience

2. Topics are fairly specific

3. Broad topics cover too much material

4. Hawaii topics may not be well represented

in general databases & reference sources,

but may work as a sub-topic

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Pathfinder Exercise 11. In pairs, examine one Pathfinder (online or

paper).

2. Read the assignment instructions & locate each numbered requirement on the Pathfinder.

3. Examine & discuss its style, readability & adherence to instructions.

4. Repeat with another pathfinder & compare the two.

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Pathfinder Outline

Identify the partners

Identify the topic

Identify the audience

Identify the library

Identify some LCSH search terms

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Library of CongressSubject Headings LCSH

The Big Red Books (5 volumes, A-Z)

Authorized topic words assigned by LC catalogers

Controlled Vocabulary

Appear in the Subject(s): field of the online catalog record structure

Searchable from within a record (a lateral search strategy)

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LCSH Syndetic StructureCommunal living (May Subd Geog)

[HQ970-HQ972]

Here are entered works on arrangements in voluntary cooperative living, usually informal, including the communes that flourished beginning in the 1960's...UF Communal settlements

Communes

Cooperative living

Counter culture

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LCSH Syndetic Structure

UF = Used For = used instead of

Communal living (is Used For or instead of)

Communal settlements

Communes

Cooperative living

Counter culture

{The UF words & phrases are not LCSH}

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LCSH Syndetic Structure

Communal living [cont.] RT Collective settlements

Housing, CooperativeCommunal marriage USE Group marriageCommunal natural resources USE Natural resources, Communal

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LCSH Syndetic Structure

Communicable diseases (May Subd Geog)

[RA643-RA644 (Public health)]

[RC109-RC216 (Internal medicine)]

BT Diseases

Infection

RT Epidemics

Quarantine

NT Parasitic diseases

Vaccination

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LCSH Syndetic Structure

Communicable diseases [cont.]

SA Individual communicable diseases, e.g. Q fever

--Diagnosis--Hospitals--Prevention

NT Isolation (Hospital care)

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LCSH Subdivisions• Common Form Subdivisions

– Text p. 47– http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/reference/

formsubdiv.html

• Standard "Free-floating” & Form Subheadings:-- Pictorial works-- Research-- Sex differences-- Social aspects-- Social life and customs-- Study and teaching-- Statistics

-- Abstracts-- Bibliography-- Biography-- Case studies-- Description and travel-- Diaries-- Dictionaries-- Directories

-- Encyclopedias-- Fiction-- Handbooks, manuals, etc.-- History-- Humor-- In literature-- Juvenile literature-- Law and legislation

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LCSH Exercise

1. What is the call number for works on

children?

2. Is Children the appropriate heading

for material about 13 year olds?

3. What heading would you use to find

material on children of Afganistan?

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LCSH Exercise

4. Which terms are not used to search for

materials on children when you want to

do a pure LCSH search?

5. Is Age groups a subdivision under the

heading Children?

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LCSH Exercise

6. What is the appropriate heading for materials on Mozart as a child?

7. Which LCSH term(s) would you use to search for materials on kids who have been molested or mistreated?

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LCSH Exercise

CHILDREN (May Subd Geog)

[HQ767.8-HQ792.2]Here are entered works on people from

birth through twelve years of age.UF Childhood

Pedology (Child study)BT Age groups

Family

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LCSH ExerciseCHILDREN [cont.]SA subdivision Childhood and youth under

names of individual persons; also subdivision Children under individual wars, e.g., World War, 1939-1945--Children

NT Abused children Adopted children Adult children

--Abuse ofUSE Child abuse

--Attitudes--Biography

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Pathfinder Exercise 2

1. Partners work together.

2. Select a preliminary topic & write a few words that describe it.

3. Look them up in LCSH.

4. Examine all Subject Headings related to the topic, follow all SAs, RTs & NTs

5. Write down a set of LCSH terms for the topic to use as a starting point for the search strategy.

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Thinking Through Information Structure

Handouts pp. 2-5 Information Structure of Reference

Sources Categories of Information in Answer-

Providing Sources Data & Access Tools

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Search Exercises

Search Exercises (Green) pp. 2-6 Read pp. 2-6 on Periodical Indexes &

Abstracts for next week. No online sources used in Exercise 1A. The 601 Bibliography lists sources to use

for the search exercises. Searches begin in class next week

(not for homework this week).

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Due Next Week Email your Pathfinder Outline: partner names,

library, topic, audience & LC Subject Headings

One (1) email message with both partners’ email

address on the header so I can reply to both at

once, paste outline in the message

HANDOUTS pp. 6-13

Read SEARCH EXERCISES pp. 2-6

TEXT CHAPTER 8

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Outline Due Next WeekFrom: leonlee@hawaii.eduCC: rholmberg@hawaii.eduSubject: Lee & Holmberg Pathfinder OutlinePartners: Leon Lee and Roberta HolmbergLibrary: Manoa Public LibraryTopic: Laser Skin TherapyAudience: Adults who want to get rid of sun

damage, wrinkles, varicose veins, hair, acne, or birthmarks without invasive surgery.

LCSH: Lasers in surgery; Phototherapy