English 102Name:
IL1: Access Prep
Library Scavenger Hunt
As we progress in the quarter, you will need to become familiar with our library and its resources. This online scavenger hunt will help you learn how to access information that will come in handy for the rest of the quarter (and the rest of your college career). Pay attention: you will need to use this information repeatedly for the rest of the quarter!
For this assignment, you need:
- this handout
- Pen/pencil
- A computer with Internet access
- earphones or earbuds
- TIME to think about what you’re doing, watch a bit of a video, and read and article. I recommend you split this assignment over the next two days. (It’s four pages long, and there are a lot of steps.)
1. Go to: . Bookmark this link or save it as a Favorite: you’ll need it often.
2. Near the bottom of the homepage, click on the 80-second tour link and watch it.
3. During the video, librarian Aryana Bates tells you what the library can help you with. She describes the key points of information literacy. The library is a central information point for you, as are our librarians. Their aim (and mine) is to help you become “informationally literate.” On your information sheets at the beginning of the quarter, many of you stated that you weren’t familiar with the concept of information literacy. Please summarize in 2-3 sentences what Aryana Bates says in the video. Use your own words. You can watch the video as many times as you need to.
4. Go back to the library home page.
5. Click on the librarians link.
Click on Elinor Appel’s link
Scroll down to the Class Research Guides Section
How many Class Research Guide links do you see?
Do you recognize the names of any instructors?
(Soon, our class will have a research guide on this page, so remember how you got here.)
6. Go back to the library home page.
Click on the Books and Videos link
Click on the Library catalog link
Click on the Course Reserve tab
Click on the down arrow of the instructor box, then select my name.
7. Click on the Search button.
8. How many hits did your search result in?
9. Skim through the links. Some are for our class, with my last name, and some are for other classes. How many hits do you see that are with my last name?
10. Click on this link:
*Electronic Reserve for ENGL 102/ Leek- Winter 2010 (Blood Read: Story)
11. You’ll go to a new page and see this link. Click on it.
ENGL 102 Blood Read: The Vampire as a Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
12. You’ll be asked for a password. The password is: 010410
13. You should now be granted access to an Electronic Reserve article for our class. You will need this article before the end of the week (I will not be making copies), so you could print it now or you could come back later and print it.
14. Go back to the library home page.
15. Click on the Databases link.
16. Click on the Reference databases link.
17. In the box on the left of the page, click on Databases – Alphabetical.
18. On the Databases – Alphabetical page, click on the American Historyin Video link.
19. On the left side of the page, in the Historical Links navigation bar, click on the link to The Sixties (1960–1974).
20. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the link to page 2.
21. On this page, click on this link (#71):
71. The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation from PBS (Public Broadcasting Service, 2005) 114:42.
22. Watch the first 5.30 of this video and read the transcript. It will give you a lot of information about America in the 60s which may have helped to shape Interview in the 70s.
23. Go back to the library home page.
24. Click on the Databases link again.
25. Click on the Periodical locator link.
26. You’re going to Browse Periodicals by Subject. Go to Languages and Literatures and click on the Search button.
27. In the English section, click on this link: American Literature (50)
28. Click on this link:
American literature (0002-9831)
in Central Campus and North Campusfrom 03/01/1929 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Complete
from 09/01/1997 to 03/01/2000 in ProQuest Research Library
from 06/01/2001 to 06/30/2002 in eLibrary
29. On the next page, open the 1976 link.
30. Click on Vol. 48 Issue 3 - Nov76
31. In the search box at the top of the page, type the keyword “vampire”, and hit Search.
32. When the results come up, click on the following link. Read the text (you can read it onscreen or you can print it). Pull at least one quote that is specifically about Interview with the Vampire. Write it below.
The Rise of VampireLiterature.
Full Text Available
By: Meloni, Christine. Library Media Connection, Oct2007, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p30-33, 3p; (AN 26926579)
Quote:
33. Last, scroll through the results of this search. Make note of any title that interests you or that you think might come in handy in your near future!
You are finished! This completed handout is due when we meet in the library on Wednesday, February 10. No late handouts will be accepted.