Dragon (HKUL Catalogue)

Dragon

(HKUL Catalogue)

(A) Why Dragon?

(B) Find a Book

(C) Find a Journal Article (D) Keyword Search

(I) Build a Keyword Search Statement (II) Exercise

(III) Evaluate and Focus: Subject Search

(IV) Evaluate and Focus: New Keyword Search

A Why Dragon?

Content

Search features

Coverage of HKUL subscribed resources

Dragon (HKUL Catalogue)

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More focused set: Includes books, journals, audio-visual materials in the HKUL

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More sophisticated

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All catalogued resources in HKUL

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^Find@HKUL

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Very huge set: Includes Dragon plus many HKUL subscribed full text articles

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Simple

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Does not cover all HKUL subscribed resources.

Especially weak in legal and Chinese materials

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Renew books online, check the status of your requested items and display your reading history.

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New additions to the library collection over the past 4 weeks.

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Search for materials (both print and electronic) in the Main Library and all branch libraries of HKUL.

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B Find a Book

Kapferer, J.-N., & Kapferer, J.-N. (2008). The new strategic brand management: Creating and

sustaining brand equity long term. London: Kogan Page.

Printed Book

Call number: ________________________________

Location: _____ /F., Main Library, ( ________ Wing)

Available on the shelf?  Yes No

Title of Chapter 3: _________________________________

Open the e-book.

Go to chapter 4 (page 65). Find the paragraph and fill in the blank.

Distributors’ brand are on the rise everywhere, and now dominate the market in many so-called mass consumption categories. For example, in France the market of self service packaged ham is _________________ tonnes a year.

E Book

How to locate the printed book?

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C Find a Journal Article

Chamberlain, L. B. (2009). The amazing teen brain: what every child advocate needs to know. ABA Child law practice, 28(2), 17-18, 22-24.

1. Select Title search

Article not found in Find@HKUL

2. Enter journal title

3. Check Lib Has: Does it cover the issue we need?

4. If yes, click to start searching...

D Keyword Search

Keyword search

finds in

all searchable fields

in Dragon.

Table of contents

Subjects Summary Title

Author

(I) Build a Keyword Search Statement

Building a search statement is just

3 steps

away… See how this works!

Topic: Controlling one’s diet to lose weight

1. Analyse the topic

The two

major concepts

are

diet

and

lose weight

2. Brainstorm for related terms

Find

synonyms

for each of the concepts.

Concept 1: Concept 2:

diet lose weight

Related terms

diet food habits

weight loss slimming

3. Build the search statement

(diet* or food habit*) and (slimming or weight loss)

Insert the

Boolean

operators:

Truncate

appropriate terms Insert

brackets

to

● Or: connect related terms ^● * for 1-5 characters group concepts together

● And: connect terms on different concepts ^● ** for > 1 character

Boolean Search Statement Finds Purpose

Or internet or web Records with either term Broaden a search

And internet and commerce Records with both terms Narrow down a search

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(II) Exercise: Keyword Search

Topic: Films in China

I would like to have

English books

published

between 2009 and 2013

, and housed in the

Main Library

.

1. Analyze the topic

The two concepts are

films

^and

China

2. Brainstorm for related terms

Concept 1: Concept 2:

films China

Related terms

3. Write the search statement

4. Search

1. Select search field 2. Enter search statement

3. Select boolean operator

4. Specify the limit criteria:

● Year: After 2008 and before 2014

● Material Type: Book

● Language: English

● Location: Main Library

● Sort results by: Alphabetical

Search Extension Tools

Scan QR code with your mobile to save call number

Send book details to your mobile Share in social bookmarking tools e.g. Facebook, Twitter & more

Display citation in different styles Request books from other local university libraries

Discover the collection at HKUL in one go

5. Evaluate the results

Examine the following two titles

Title A: 101 essential Chinese movies (2010)

 Relevant

 Not so relevant

Title B: Kaleidoscope : history of Hong Kong comics exhibition (2011)

 Relevant

 Not so relevant

Some guidelines for evaluation C ^urrency

- Timeliness of the information.

A ccuracy and Authority

- Reliability and correctness of the content.

R elevance

- Relatedness to your topic.

E quitable and Impartial

- Whether it’s fact, opinion or propaganda.

(III) Evaluate and Focus: Subject Search

1. What’s this book about?

Examine the LC Subject.

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□ (A) Poultry industry in Minsk

□ (B) Brain teaser problems on mathematical physics

2. How to find more relevant books?

□ (A) Click on the Subject Term

□ (B) Do a keyword search “Chicken and Minsk”

(IV) Evaluate and Focus: New Keyword Search

1. What’s this book about?

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□ (A) Teaching strategies to foster creativity, critical thinking and communication

□ (B) Teaching strategies for gifted children

2. How to find more relevant books?

Refer to the LC Subjects. Use those terms to build a keyword search statement.

□ (A) Effective teaching and creative thinking

□ (B) Effective teaching or (creative ability and critical thinking and communication)

□ (C) Effective teaching and (creative ability or critical thinking or communication)

□ (D) Students’ skills or creative or critical or communication