1. Using Books for Research I
Week 7

2. This week we will learn how to:
Find a BOOK
• Use the ONLINE
CATALOG
• FIND the book on the
shelf
• ACCESS an eBook

3. Turn on the
News
Newspapers
Magazines
Scholarly
Journals
Event
Happens
Books BOOKS

4. WHY do I want to find a book?
#4 - Background info
#3 - Facts and
statistics
#2 -In-depth info on a
person or topic
#1 -Not everything is
on the INTERNET!!!

5. HOW do I find a book?
Start with
Gumberg Library’s
Online Catalog,
which is called….
DuCAT!

6. Library Homepage
http://www.duq.edu/library
# 1
# 2
Access DuCat
BASIC
SEARCH
ADVANCED
SEARCH

7. Basic Search
You may search for BOOKS by:
Keyword
Author
Title
Subject

8. Guided Search
Combine search term types and/or add limits

10. My Course Topic...
GENERAL TOPIC:
Diversity in higher education

11. Keywords and Alternate Terms
Diversity
• Multiculturalism
• Minorities
• Race
• Gender
• Ethnic background
• Religion
Higher Education
• College
• Colleges
• University
• Universities

12. If I do a search for...
DIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION
91
titles

13. If I do a search in DuCat for...
DIVERSITY MULTICULTURALISM
titles2, 547

14. If I do a DuCat search for...
(DIVERSITY OR MULTICULTURALISM)
AND HIGHER EDUCATION
I would get… 107 titles
NESTED SEARCH: Combining OR and AND searches

15. Truncation
• Way to search for
variations on a
search term using
the base
• DuCat uses $
• College$
– college
– colleges
• Universit$
– university
– universities
• Multicultural$
– multicultural
– multiculturalism

16. Nested Search w/ Truncation
(divers$ OR multicultural$) AND
higher education
How many results
do you get?