Marcie Jacklin B Sc MLIS Tourism and Environment

Marcie Jacklin, B. Sc. , MLIS Tourism and Environment Librarian 9/9/2020 mjacklin@brocku. ca ext 3960

9/9/2020 Ecotourist

9/9/2020 Assignment: Part I

9/9/2020 Assignment One Part I and II – 10 % n n Help you master the skills and techniques of information retrieval Part I – make a list of citations for several different types of information resources

9/9/2020 Marcie’s top seven tips for this assignment

Tip #1 Don’t leave this assignment until the last day 9/9/2020

9/9/2020 Tip # 2 Selecting a topic n You can select “any environmental issue that has a sustainable development or environmental policy dimension. You may choose a topic that also has links to tourism…. ”

9/9/2020 Tips for selecting a topic n n TIP : Avoid choosing a topic which is too broad or too narrow E. g birdwatching – 32, 500, 000 results

Start looking for a topic with the library’s new Super. Search 9/9/2020 n n A “web-scale discovery tool” You can search the contents of multiple library catalogues and indexes at the same time (like google but more scholarly sources)

9/9/2020 Note the menu on the left side

Super. Search allow you to: n n n 9/9/2020 Search by keyword Check availability Limit by format type (very important for this assignment) and other criteria Do an advanced search (very important for focusing your research) Sort your results by relevance or year of publication

Citation information is available in Supersearch 9/9/2020

9/9/2020 SOLD OUT

9/9/2020 Format types in Super. Search n Depending on your keywords and the number of results: n n n Academic (scholar, peer-reviewed) journals Magazines News Books e. Books

9/9/2020 Tip # 3 n Use Super. Search to find better keywords and subject headings

9/9/2020 Keywords n n Birds Bird watching or birding Niagara Peninsula Niagara River

9/9/2020 Subject Headings n n n Bird watching - Ontario – Niagara Peninsula Bird watchers Tourism Ecotourism Sustainable tourism (Obsession; over-determination)

9/9/2020 Subject headings allow you to find relevant articles on your topic n E. g. Hunting without guns

9/9/2020 Tip # 4 Selecting the best database(s) n n Depends on your topic Super. Search; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts; Canadian Newsstand; Google Scholar and Google Books

9/9/2020 Research Guides by Program

9/9/2020 Videos coming soon!

9/9/2020 Tip # 5 n n n Refining keywords for larger databases and using field searches/boolean Less can be more e. g. use habitat instead of habitat loss May need 3 or 4 concepts n n n Birds Conservation international

9/9/2020 Keywords and concepts n Use as many concepts as possible to reduce the number of results

9/9/2020 Example n n n (birds or “bird watch* or birdwatch*”) and ecotour* Birdwatching; birdwatcher; ecotourism; ecotourist Then limit by format type and/or year of publication

9/9/2020 Google Advance Search

Tip # 6 Scholarly peer reviewed academic articles 9/9/2020

9/9/2020 Key features

9/9/2020 Key features n n n Detailed titles Can be multiple authors Reports original research Detailed charts, diagrams etc Bibliography Indication of peer-reviewed process

9/9/2020 Example of citation information n The value of species rarity in biodiversity recreation: A birdwatching example. By: Booth, Josephine E. ; Gaston, Kevin J. ; Evans, Karl L. ; Armsworth, Paul R. Biological Conservation. Nov 2011, Vol. 144 Issue 11, p 2728 -2732. 5 p. DOI: 10. 1016/j. biocon. 2011. 02. 018.

9/9/2020 Tip # 7 Getting HELP n TA’s n Research a topic in…. (for videos) Research Help desk TREN 1 F 90 E-classroom Drop-in Clinics TBA (me) Me n n n

9/9/2020 Research Help Desk n Main floor (my availability) n n n Thurs Oct 11 Thurs Oct 18 Sunday Oct 25 5 to 7 pm

9/9/2020 TREN 1 F 90 E-classroom Clinics n n Bring your own laptop to work along or borrow one from circulation You can come and go but I will try and help people out as they arrive

9/9/2020 Drop-in schedule n n Tues Oct 2 2: 30 – 4 pm Classroom B Fri Oct 12 11: 00 – 12: 30 pm “ Thurs Oct 25 7 – 8 pm “ Fri Oct 26 noon- 2 pm “