Information Seeking Strategies Location and Access Biography By

“Information Seeking Strategies” & “Location and Access” Biography By Mrs. Fisher

Follow the “Big 6” • Know your project “inside out” • Brainstorm where to look for information • Types of information needed • Know how to locate & access

“Brainstorm where to look for information” As in this example from Art Wolinsky’s book, Internet Power Research Using the Big 6 Approach. . .

Blue Whale Sources CD ROMS Web Sites Movies and TV Shows Internet Discussion Groups Fishermen Environmental Protection Agency Sea World Magazines Email Experts Library Books Newspapers School Ecology Club Email Friends

Determine the types of information sources needed ? Library Resources Library Books Web Sites Subscription Databases e. Library Official Web Sites Encyclopedias Other Print Resources Other Online Resources Evaluated Web Sites

Determine the types of information needed • And how best to access that info • What “key words” and phrases to search for

Know how to locate & access • Do you know how to use the library’s OPAC? • When you get a book, do you know how to find the information that you are looking for in the book? • Do you know how to use ODIN? • Do you know how to find the subscription databases? • Do you know how to use them? • Do you know how to conduct good searches? • Do you know how to evaluate web sites?

A word about search engines. . . Different search engines to consider: • • Google Yahoo Ask Dogpile • Grokker Metacrawler Kart. OO Webcrawler

Good Luck With Your Research! Let us know how we can assist you.

• Slide #1 Credits Bio Magazine: http: //www. airlineamb. org/External. Files/biography_cover. tif Book: http: //www. raremapsandbooks. com/images/sept 14 biography. jpg Poster: http: //tbn 1. google. com/images? q=tbn: q. Yx 1 y. U 2 Ly. Sh. Z 5 M: http: //macphilly. com/bio_logo. jpg • Slide #2 Biography Assignment: http: //z. about. com/d/homeschooling/1/5/b/E/4/biographyprint. png • Slide #3 Brainstorm Image: http: //minimediaguy. org/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/tn_brainstorm. jpg • Slide #4 Blue Whale: http: //animals. nationalgeographic. com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/Static. Files/animals/images /1024/whale-shark-with-fish. jpg

• Slide #5 Credits Female Silhouette http: //freepages. genealogy. rootsweb. ancestry. com/~batesmillerhistory/webgraphics/femsilhouettelg. gif. Book Male Silhouette http: //book-trails. net/tim/storyboards/resources/male_silhouette. Slide • Slide#6 Girl Reading Book http: //tbn 1. google. com/images? q=tbn: 1 El. B 3 qd. Q 8 An. Dz. M: http: //www. census. gov/pubinfo/www/multi media/img/reading-hi. jpg. Slide • Slide #9 Librarian: http: //static. squidoo. com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens 1802860 module 7863496 photo_librarian. jpg

Works Cited Wolinsky, Art. Internet Power Research Using the Big 6 Approach. Enslow Publishers, Inc. 2005.