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Information science

• Starting point
  • Key online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
  • Key print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
• Catalogue searching
• Databases and journal articles
  • Key databases
• Key internet sites
  • Useful starters
  • Professional organisations, Australian
  • Professional organisations, international
  • Education and research
  • Information literacy
  • Tools

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Starting point for Information science

Starting point contains definitions, facts, figures and overviews

• Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
• Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
• Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts

Key online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Online dictionary for library and information science	Resource for library and information science professionals, university students and staff, and users of all types of libraries
Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management	Comprehensive source of coverage related to the past, present, and emerging directions of knowledge management
Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management	Leading reference source for dynamic and innovative research in the field of communities of practice (CoPs) in information and knowledge management

Key print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Concise dictionary of library and information science
Harrod’s librarians’ glossary and reference book
Encyclopedia of library and information science

Use the catalogue to search for more dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

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Catalogue searching

You can search the Library Catalogue to find books, DVDs, journals and other materials

If you know the exact title in the New catalogue

• At the search screen select a Title search
• Type in the exact title. You can use double quotes around phrases, for example, “room with a view”
• Link to online material or take note of the collection, call number and status to find items in the Library

If you are searching for a topic in the New catalogue

• Type in keywords from your topic to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
  For example,  +library +information +literacy
• Use + before a word to indicate that the word must be included
• Another way of doing this is to combine keywords with AND (the AND must be in upper case)
• If a keyword search gives you too many results, you could add another keyword with +
  For example, +library +information +literacy +teaching

Truncation is generally not needed as entering any version of a word will retrieve many variations.

More information

• For more information select the catalogue Help button

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Databases and journal articles for Information science

Use databases to search for journal articles, book chapters, conference papers or research reports

Key databases for Information science

Databases	Notes	Help
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)	LISTA contains references and abstracts from the mid 1960’s. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval and information management	Help and tips are available online from the EBSCOHost search screen
Emerald management xtra	Provides access to fulltext articles in a range of subject areas including librarianship. Coverage from 1989	Help and tips are available online from the Emerald search screen
Australian Library and Information Science Abstracts (ALISA)	Indexes Australian literature on library and information science. Subject coverage includes library science, information science, information technology, children's literature and archives. Coverage: 1982 – April 2005	Help and tips are available online from the Informit search screen

Complete list of Information science databases. Also check the multidisciplinary databases as they cover a wide range of academic topics. You can select other subjects from the database subject list

Full text not available?

When the full text is not available, search for the journal title in the Library catalogue to discover if print or online copies are available

Database search tips

• Define your topic and identify the main concepts involved
  For example information and ethics
  • Make a list of keywords for each concept
    For example
    information; knowledge; facts
    ethics; ethical standards; censorship; information law; intellectual freedom; privacy
    
  • Think about how you can combine these keywords in your search using OR, AND or NOT
    Keywords on the same concept combine with an OR
    Combine different concepts with an AND
    For example
    information or knowledge
    and
    ethics or code of ethics or intellectual freedom or privacy
    
  • Appropriate truncation symbols can be used in databases to find variations of a word, for example ethic* finds ethic; ethics; ethical and so on

For help with searching databases see Connecting and Combining Search Terms or Truncation/Wildcards/Phrase searching: Basic or Online training or Ask the Library

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Key internet sites for Information science

It is important to critically evaluate all information you find particularly information found on the web.

This is a starting list of internet sites. You may want to do your own searches using search engines

Useful starters

• Archives of Australia links to government and university archives in Australia and worldwide
• Australian Libraries Gateway from the National Library of Australia
• BUBL Information Service based at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland
• Information Architecture Institute provides a selection of resources in the field of information architecture. The Information Architecture Library collection includes articles, books, blogs and more
• Internet Library for Librarians created by Vianne Tang Sha, published by InfoWorks Technology Company
• MARC Standards from the Library of Congress Network Development and Marc Standards Office

Professional organisations, Australian

• Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI)

• Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is the professional organisation for Australian librarians and the information services sector

• Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)

Professional organisations, international

• American Library Association (ALA)

• American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) this organisation is concerned with the theoretical basis of librarianship (information science) and the convergence of information management with information technology

• Association for Information Management (ASLIB)

• Association of College and Research Librarie (ACRL)

• Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA)

• Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

• Canadian Library Association (CLA)

• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) was formed in April 2002, following the unification of the Institute of Information Scientists and the (British) Library Association

Education and research

• Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is an open-access peer reviewed ejournal from the University of Alberta

• Communications in Information Literacy is an open-access peer reviewed ejournal. The first issue will be released in early 2007

• Journal of Information Literacy is an open-access peer reviewed ejournal which commenced publication in January 2007

• Librarianship courses from ALIA links to Australian universities which offer recognised courses in library and information science

Information literacy

• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL): Information Literacy is a US site which aims to support librarians, other educators and administrators in playing a leadership role in the development and implementation of information literacy programs

• Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy (ANZIIL)

• Council of Australian University Librarians: Information Literacy includes links to publications including the Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework

• Information Literacy Website developed by key UK professionals and organisations actively involved in the field of information literacy. The site provides case studies, examples of best practice and toolkits. Published by Eduserv

• International Information Literacy Resources Directory from IFLA and UNESCO

• National Forum on Information Literacy sponsored by the Syracuse Literacy Group

• School Libraries and Information Literacy from the NSW Dept of Education and Training

Tools

• Dewey Decimal Summaries from OCLC, provides access to the summaries of the Dewey Decimal System and links to other resources such as the WebDewey tutorial

• Library of Congress Authorities provides authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations

• MARC 21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data widely used standards for the representation and exchange of authority, bibliographic, classification, community information, and holdings data in machine-readable form.

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