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What does [insert word here] mean?

ijastram — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:49:31 CDT

Within the Glossary, terms in quotation marks are explained elsewhere in the glossary and contextual links lead you to other Pegasus Library pages.

Bridge: Shared "Catalog" of "Carleton" and "St. Olaf". [Link Out: Carleton]

Carleton: A stellar college with an amazing library.

Catalog: This is searchable information about things the library owns or rents. You'll find information about books, periodicals (not the articles inside the periodicals... for that you need a Database), music, movies, etc. Carleton's library catalog is called "Bridge" [Link Out], which shows the "Holdings" of both "Carleton" and "St. Olaf". You can also search "WorldCat" [Link Out] for information about things other libraries own and then have those things sent here by requesting them via "InterLibrary Loan" [Link Out].

Database: In the library world, this is what we call the searchable information on journal articles, book reviews, and other small pieces of published works. We say that databases index articles because they act like the indexes at the backs of books; they tell us where to find the articles we're looking for. Some databases may have the "Full Text" of the article or review to which they refer, while others may provide only the citation and abstract of the works they index. If there's no full text available, don't despair. See Finding Articles for more information.

Full Text: When you have all the words of the article available to you rather than just the citation information.

Holdings: Things the library owns or rents. You can find all our holdings by searching our "Catalog."

InterLibrary Loan: You can have books and articles sent to you from other libraries, free of charge, by submitting a loan request. Make sure we don't have the book or article here or at "St. Olaf," though, or your request will get returned to you.

St. Olaf: That college on the other side of the river... you know the one (Link Out: St. Olaf ).

WorldCat: A "Catalog" that searches many library's "Holdings" from all over the nation and the world. [Link Out: WorldCat]

Finding Articles

ijastram — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:43:56 CDT

Use databases and indexes [Link Out; Glossary] to locate periodical articles on your topic. Databases contain a combination of full text articles (ready to read online) and article citations. Not every issue of every journal is covered in the databases, so you may need to check our print indexes in the reference and periodical collections to find citations.
To find article authors, titles, and other information, search one of our databases [Link Out]. Remember, Journals are made up of collections of Articles. Databases search articles while Bridge [Link Out] searches only the "outsides," the Journals.

If the full text is not visible in the database you're searching, look to see if there is a button that says "Find It" near your citation. If so, click that button and it will search our electronic, print, and microform collections for you.
If there is no "Find It" button, search our Journals List [Link Out] for the Journal name (not the title of the article) to see if we have a subscription to it.
If you do not find your journal listed there, check Bridge [Link Out] for the Journal name to see if we have the journal, volume, and issue that you need.
If you don't find the journal there, or if we don't have the correct volume and issue, order the article via Interlibrary Loan [Link Out; Glossary].

In a Foreign Language

ijastram — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:38:34 CDT