1. Library Orientation
for HS1001 Sociology Students
6 September 2012
presented by:
Jenny Wong
Social Sciences Librarian (Sociology)
jennywong@ntu.edu.sg

2. Lost in the information jungle?

3. Outline
1. Library Services & Library Resources
2. Developing a Search Strategy
3. Locating Books, E-Books & AV Materials
 Library Catalogue
 Course Reserves
4. Locating Journal Articles
 E-Journals & Print Journals
 A-Z List
5. Searching by Topic in Databases
6. Locating Past Student’s Works – DR-NTU
7. Web Scale Discovery Tool – OneSearch
8. Internet Sources
 full text@NTU Library
 Findit@NTU
9. Plagiarism & Citations
 ASA Citation Style
 Managing References with EndNote
10. Useful Guides & Contacts

4. 1. LIBRARY SERVICES & LIBRARY
RESOURCES

5. Getting Started

6. Library Website www.ntu.edu.sg/library

7. NTU Library System – 7 Subject Libraries
Humanities & Social Asian Communication
Sciences Library Lee Wee Nam Library Resource Centre (ACRC)
Business Library
7 Chinese Library
Art, Design & Media Library Wang Gungwu Library

8. Humanities & Social Sciences Library
Block S4-B3C-05

9. Opening Hours
Semester
Mon – Fri 8:30 am to 9:30 pm
Sat 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Sun Closed
Vacation
Mon – Fri 8:30 am to 7:00 pm
Sat 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Sun Closed
www.ntu.edu.sg/library/about/open

10. Library Facilities
• Self-service checkouts • Learning Commons
• PCs & wireless access  Learning Pods
• Printing  Multi-monitor Workstations
• Photocopying  Recording Room
• Scanning • Study Rooms
• E-payment kiosks • Cinema Rooms
• Discussion Rooms

11. To book?
ntufbs.ntu.edu.sg/NTUFBS

12. Facilities @ HSS Library
Computing facilities
Self-service printing
Self-service photocopying
Self-check & payment station
Book deposit bin
Study seats

13. Borrowing Privileges
Borrowing
Matriculation card + Library item
Self-service checkouts (except for Course Reserves)
Service counter
20 items, 28 days each (except for Course Reserves)
NIE Library
Bring along your matriculation card
Register in person at the NIE Library
www.ntu.edu.sg/library/membership/student

14. Returning Materials
Print materials
Return to any NTU Library or via book deposit bins except for
Course reserve materials
Items with accompanying CDs
AV materials
Return to any NTU Library

15. Renewing Materials
Online renewal via Library Account
Renew up to 6 times
Date due email reminders
Problems?
Call 6790 4691
Email circulation@ntu.edu.sg

16. Access Your Library Account

17. Access Your Library Account
Demo

18. Reserving Materials
Reserve library materials online
Materials with the following status:
On loan (except for Course Reserves)
In transit
On order
On hold for someone
Up to 10 items at any one time

19. Item Reservation

20. Item Reservation
Demo

21. Locating Library Resources
Books AV eJournals
Print eBooks A-Z List
Journals
Library Catalogue FYPs
DR-NTU
Conference Theses
Research Proceedings
Articles
Databases
Patents Standards

22. Accessing E-Resources
On site and remote access to library e-resources
Login using NTU Network username & password
studentusername

24. Locating Past Year Exam Papers
Browse by Schools
Exam Papers by
Semester

25. 2. DEVELOPING A SEARCH STRATEGY

26. 1. Think of Search Terms
Brainstorm and generate keywords
Identify keywords that represent the major concepts
Consider alternative spellings, synonyms, acronyms, related
terms
For example:
handphone, mobile phone, cell phone
expressway, highway, freeway, motorway
domestic helper, domestic worker, housekeeper

27. 2. Boolean Connectors
Using Boolean Connectors to connect the terms in each concept
domestic helper Singapore Narrowing the search
domestic helper AND Singapore
domestic helper domestic worker
Broadening the search
domestic helper OR domestic worker
domestic helper domestic worker
Narrowing the search
(domestic helper OR domestic worker)
NOT Filipino
Filipino

28. 3. Search Tips
Phrase search “ ” „ ‟
“domestic helper”
„domestic helper‟
Truncation * $
femin* → feminine, feminism, feministic
Wildcard ?
wom?n → woman, women
globali?ation → globalisation, globalization
Note: There is no common standard for symbols. Look at the help pages of
each database to ensure the correct use of the various symbols.

29. 3. LOCATING BOOKS, E-BOOKS & AV
MATERIALS

30. Library Catalogue

31. Locating Books
Call number
LC Classification

32. Locating E-Books
keywords AND e-book

33. E-Books

34. Locating AV Materials

35. AV Materials

36. Course Reserves
Textbooks, readings & AV
materials for specific courses

37. Course Reserves

38. 4. LOCATING JOURNAL ARTICLES

39. Which is a book and which is a journal?
Author of chapter Year of publication Chapter title Page numbers
Butler, Judith. 1993. “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” Pp. 307-20 in
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited by H. Abelove, M. A.
Barale, and D. M. Halperin. New York: Routledge.
Editors of book
Title of book Publisher
Book
Authors of article Year of publication of article
McLaughlin, Heather, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2012. “Sexual
Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power.” American
Sociological Review 77(4):625-47.
Journal page no.
Article title Journal title Journal issue no.
Journal volume no.
Journal

40. Locating Print Journals

41. Locating E-Journals

42. Locating E-Journals
Journal search via Title

43. Locating E-Journals
Journal search via Title

44. Locating E-Journals
Journal search via Subject

45. Locating E-Journals
Journal search via Subject browse

46. Locating E-Journals
Journal search via Providers

47. SAGE Journals
Demo

48. Top 10 Journals in Sociology
(ranked by impact factor 2011)
1. Annual Review of Sociology
2. American Sociological Review
3. Annals of Tourism Research
4. American Journal of Sociology
5. Sociological Methodology
6. Social Networks
7. Gender & Society
8. Population and Development Review
9. Politics & Society
10. Journal of Marriage and Family
Source: 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2012)

49. 5. SEARCHING BY TOPIC IN
DATABASES

50. Database & Journal
What is the difference? Database
Journal

51. Databases
Click to view more information
about the database

52. Sociological Abstracts
• Abstracts and indexes over
2,000 journals, books, reviews,
dissertations, conference
papers and working papers in
sociology and related
disciplines in the social and
behavioral sciences
• Coverage 1952 to current
• Updated monthly

53. Sociological Abstracts
Boolean operators
Demo

54. Research topic: Gender Equity and Fertility in Singapore
Research questions:
 Does higher gender equity equate to higher fertility rate?
 Is there a relation between gender equity and fertility rate?
 …
Gender equity
Gender equality, Sexual equity, Sexual equality,
Gender inequality, Sexual inequality
Fertility
Singapore

55. Academic Search Premier
• Contains indexing and
abstracts for more than
8,500 journals, with full
text for more than 4,600
of those titles
• Coverage dated as far
back as 1975
• Updated daily

56. JSTOR
Provides backfiles of core
scholarly journals in many
disciplines
Includes scholarly journals,
conference proceedings,
primary source materials,
and books

57. JSTOR

58. Newspaper Search

59. Factiva
Provides news and business
information
Covers 10,000 sources from
more than 159 countries in
22 languages

60. Factiva
Demo

61. 6. LOCATING PAST STUDENT’S
WORKS

62. Digital Repository – NTU

63. Digital Repository – NTU

64. Digital Repository – NTU

65. 7. WEB SCALE DISCOVERY TOOL

66. Books AV eJournals
Print eBooks A-Z List
Journals
Library Catalogue FYPs
DR-NTU
Conference Theses
Research Proceedings
Articles
Databases
Patents Standards

67. OneSearch
Discovery library
resources Google
“style”

68. OneSearch Locating library
resources

69. OneSearch Locating library
resources

70. OneSearch Record no. 3

71. OneSearch Record no. 4
Retrieve Catalog Item

72. OneSearch Record no. 7
Retrieve Catalog Item

73. OneSearch
Accessing
e-articles

74. OneSearch

75. 8. INTERNET SOURCES

76. full text@NTU Library Go to Library homepage
Tools & Guides
full text@NTU Library
Install
Demo

77. Findit@NTU

78. Findit@NTU

79. Library Toolbar Go to Library homepage
Tools & Guides
NTU Library Toolbar
Library toolbar Install
quick access to all
things in Library

80. 9. PLAGIARISM & CITATIONS

81. NTU Honour Code
Plagiarism
To use or pass off as one‟s own, the writings or ideas of
another, without acknowledging or crediting the source from
which the ideas are taken.
Collusion
Submitting an assignment, project or report completed by
another person and passing it off as one‟s own; Preparing an
assignment, project or report for a fellow student who submits
the work as his or her own.
Source: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sao/Pages/HonourCode.aspx

82. Two Types of Plagiarism
Accidental Deliberate

83. Most Common Forms
Cutting and pasting from others without attribution
Copying directly from another source without attributing
from where you‟ve taken it
Using diagram or table from another source without
referencing
Reusing some parts of your previous assignment
Submitting another person‟s work as your own
How can the University detect plagiarism?
All assignments must be submitted through a program to detect plagiarism
Turnitin

84. How to Avoid?
Always …
1. Give credit whenever you use any:
 idea, theory, illustration, statistics, graphs, drawings, images or
opinion of others
 quotation of actual spoken or written words of others
 paraphrase of spoken or written words of others
2. If you are not sure, always cite
3. Follow citation rules – cite and reference correctly

85. Citing Your Sources
Complete referencing includes: in-text citations and
references
Formatting differs depending on the style you are using
Division of Sociology uses:
American Sociological Association (ASA) Style
American Sociological Association. 2010. Style
Guide. 4th ed. Washington, DC: American
Sociological Association.
Call no.: HM569.S938 2010

86. Citing Your Sources

87. In-Text Citation
If the author‟s name is in the text
According to Saw (2005), suicide is linked to social isolation …
If the author‟s name is not in the text
Suicide has been linked to social isolation (Saw 2005).
For joint authors
Suicide has been linked to social isolation (Saw and Wang
2005).
Direct quotations
According to Saw (2005), the phenomenon of suicide has “been
positively shown to be linked to isolation” (p. 104).
The phenomenon of suicide has “been positively shown to be
linked to isolation” according to Saw (2005:104).

88. References: Books
Single author
Elliott, Anthony. 2009. Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction.
London: Routledge.
Two authors
Macionis, John J. and Ken Plummer. 2008. Sociology: A Global Introduction.
4th ed. Harlow, England: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Edited book
Seidman, Steven and Jeffrey C. Alexander, eds. 2008. The New Social
Theory Reader: Contemporary Debates. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
Chapter in edited book or collected works
Butler, Judith. 1993. “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” Pp. 307-20 in
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited by H. Abelove, M. A.
Barale, and D. M. Halperin. New York: Routledge.

89. References: Journal Articles
Single author
Pekerti, Andre A. 2008. “The Interdependent Family-Centric Career: Career
Perspective of the Overseas Chinese in Indonesia.” Career Development
Quarterly 56(4):362-77.
Three authors
McLaughlin, Heather, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2012. “Sexual
Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power.” American
Sociological Review 77(4):625-47.

91. EndNote
A tool for creating bibliographies & figure lists for
your project report/scientific paper/thesis/dissertation.
A database for storing and
managing all your references & An online search tool
images.

92. Managing References

93. Citing & Referencing Correctly

94. Get EndNote!
• Where to download EndNote?
Downloading • http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/Lip/endnote
EndNote
• Instructional Services Division
Technical • http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/about/staffdirectory/div
Support isions/isd/Pages/default.aspx
• Email: instructionalservices@ntu.edu.sg
• EndNote Workshops
• http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/Lip/endnote/Pages/En
Training dNoteWorkshops.aspx

95. 10. USEFUL GUIDES & CONTACTS

96. Subject Rooms
blogs.ntu.edu.sg/library-resources/sociology/

97. blogs.ntu.edu.sg/library/hssl
www.youtube.com/user/TheNTULibraries

98. @ mobile.ntu.edu.sg @TheNTUlibraries
@ntu.library @NTUlibraries

99. Need Help?
• Jenny Wong (Subject Librarian)
 6513 8224 / 8227
 jennywong@ntu.edu.sg
• Research Assistance Desk
 6790 6312
 askalibrarian@ntu.edu.sg
• HSS Library
 6513 8226
 hsslibrary@ntu.edu.sg