1. INFORMATION
LITERACY
Developing research skills

2. Getting to Know your Resources
 Jerry Reisig
 Asst. Prof Information Literacy
 Director of Library Services
 New York Theological Seminary
 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 500
 Monday-Thursday; 11am to 4pm, or by appointment
 Phone (212) 870-1213
 jreisig@nyts.edu
 The Burke Library– 1st Floor Reference Desk
 3041 Broadway
 Tuesday and Thursday, 4– 7pm
 Phone (212) 851-5606

3. Required Publications
 Jerry Reisig, Access: Unlocking the Power of
Research, A Guide to Library Resources and
Information Literacy, 2nd ed. New York Theological
Seminary, 2012.
 Research skills at Columbia, NYTS and the Internet
 Available at the front desk at NYTS
 Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research
Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
ISBN 022682337
 Formatting and footnote

4. Library Services
 NYTS students have full checkout privileges.
 Library Card is free and valid for one year, and
can be renewed yearly as long as the patron is
a current student, faculty, or staff member.
 Library hours for all of the Columbia libraries
are available on the Columbia University
Library website at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/hour
s/.

5. Services not Provided
 Access to Teacher's College, the Law
Library, or the Medical Library.
 Alumni/ae Access.
 Off-site access to the Columbia online
databases and e-books.
 Inter-library Loan (ILL).

6. Three Things Needed to Begin
Available from NYTS
Regsitrar
NYTS ID with current semester sticker
Available at Butler Available at any
Library NYTS Library

7. Obtaining a Columbia Card
 Get a current semester sticker for your NYTS ID
from the NYTS Registrar.
 Go to the Library Information Office (LIO) at the
Butler Library on the Columbia Campus, Room
201.
 The LIO office is the first door to the left as you enter
the library and before you pass through the security
station.
 After you show your NYTS ID, your picture will be
taken and a Columbia Library ID will be created in
your name.
 Make sure that you are given a UNI ID.

8. UNION
RIVERSIDE
CHURCH
Burke
Library
NYTS
ADMIN
COLUMBIA
Barnard
Library
BARNARD LIO
Office
Butler
Library

9. Partnering with the New York
Public Library
 Students do not have access to the Columbia
Databases from Home
 NYTS students are required to get an NYPL card
 Will allow access to essential databases such as
ATLA Religion Database
 Available to all students who live, work in, go to
school or pay taxes in New York state
 Go to any Branch or research library and apply for
one
 Closest Branch on Broadway and 113th

10. The Burke Library
 During your graduate education, the most useful
library for your research will probably be the Burke
Library
 Housed on the Union Seminary Campus
 Largest theological Library in North America
 Theological Librarian on staff on 3rd Floor until
5pm
 I am the reference librarian Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 4pm-7pm
 Students should visit me there so that I can help
them develop their research projects

11. Types of Research Information
 Primary Sources
 Writing from
experience, biograpies, letters, novels, original works
 Secondary Sources
 Writing that analyzes other work, most important of
which are Journal articles
 Tertiary Sources
 Data that a general analysis or which points to other
data: dictionaries, encyclopedias, wikis, databases
 Many professors do not permit its use in research papers

12. Accessing CLIO
 The Library Catalog of the
Columbia, CLIO, can be accessed on the
internet
 The Library Catalog contains only books and
bound journals.
 Itpoints to books but does not contain the text
from them.
 Web site www.columbia.edu
 Access: Unlocking the Power of Research
provides step by step procedures for
accessing and searching on this site.

13. Go onto the Internet

14. Enter Columbia Address
www.columbia.edu

15. Select Library

16. Select Catalogs

17. Select CLIO (Columbia’s
Online Catalog

18. Scroll down and
determine where you
want to search in the
bibliographic record

21. We will be performing a
Keyword Search

22. Enter Search terms

23. We will search for
minjung, an important
Korean theology

24. To View the Bibliographic
Record, Click on the Title

25. You have found a book
at a new library
location, East Asian
To find out about its
location selection guide

26. View the Map of East
Asian

27. The East Asian Collection
is Located in Kent hall on
the Columbia Campus

28. SEARCHING BY TOPIC
Using the Burke Library

29. Searching on Subject for Paper
 You have heard a great deal about same sex
marriage and are bothered by it.
 What does the church believe about it?
 What does the Bible say about it?
 We are going to research this, not by
searching for the word, but searching for
categories of writings about it.

30. We will begin with a
simple search on the
Keyword homosexuality

31. The number of hits is far
too large to
investigate, so we need
to limit the search
Since we are asking a question
that concerns the bible and
church, we will reduce our
search to the Burke Library, the
theological library of the
Columbia System

32. The number of hits has
reduced to 517
Since this is a time sensitive
topic, we will limit the search to
the last 5 years

33. The number of hits has
further reduced to 137
The books found are clearly
more related to theology and
the bible than the first search
The first title seems
promising. To look at
it, click on the title.

34. Although this book may be
interesting, we will not look
at it. We are interested in
its LC subject(s)
One subject is of especial
interest to our research:
Homosexuality—Biblical
teaching
To see all books in the
Burke Library that have
that subject, select the
subject

35. 38 Titles share the same
LC category
To view the
entries, select the subject
category

36. We will use the results to create
a Bibliography
Check page to select all
entries on the Page
Select email to send
these entries

37. Fill out the email information

38. Email the Information

40. You will receive an email
that contains the entries

42. Highlight the Information

43. Paste into your
Document
Title: Jesus, the Bible, and homosexuality : explode the myths, heal the
church / Jack Rogers.
Author: Rogers, Jack Bartlett.
Published: Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2006.
Bibliographic Entry Format for Book
Lastname, Firstname. Title: In Title Case. Publication Information
Bibliographic Entry
Rogers, Jack Bartlett. Jesus the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the
Myths, Heal the Church. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox
Press, 2006.

44. USING THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Searching on the ATLA Religion Database

45. Databases at NYPL
 Because students cannot use Columbia
Databases from home, they will access them
through the New York Public Library.
 The ATLA Religion Database is the largest
database of theological and biblical secondary
literature in the western world.
 Password to these databases is the 14 digit
code on the back of your NYPL library card
 Access to and Usage of ATLA explained in
Access: Unlocking the Power of Research.

46. On the Internet go to the
New York Public Library
at www.nypl.org

47. On the NYPL home
page, select Research

48. Select Articles and
Databases

49. At Database title, type
ebscohost
Select FIND

50. Select ebscohost

51. Input 14 Digit Code on
Rear of Library Card
Select Login

52. Scroll Down to the
ATLA/ATLAS Religion
Database

53. Select the ATLA Religion
Database with ATLAS
Serials

54. Select Advanced Search

55. Search in
SU Subjects
From your earlier research enter the subject
Homosexuality—biblical teaching
Select Full Text

56. Scroll Down to view a
document

57. Click on accompanying
PDF to view the original
journal article

58. You can print the article
Or email the article to
yourself

59. In order to Cite the article

60. Scroll down to
Turabian/Chicago
Humanities

61. Highlight and copy into
Bibliography

62. Bibliography
Paste into Bibliography
Busenitz, Irvin A. "Marriage and homosexuality: toward a biblical
understanding." Master's Seminary Journal 19, no. 2 (September 1, 2008):
203-216. ATLA Religion Database with
ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 4, 2012).
Change to Title Case
Busenitz, Irvin A. "Marriage and Homosexuality: Toward a Biblical
Understanding." Master's Seminary Journal 19, no. 2 (September 1, 2008):
203-216. ATLA Religion Database with
ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 4, 2012).
Format Correctly
Busenitz, Irvin A. "Marriage and Homosexuality: Toward a Biblical
Understanding." Master's Seminary Journal 19, no. 2 (September
1, 2008): 203-216. ATLA Religion Database with
ATLASerials, EBSCOhost (accessed September 4, 2012).