{"id":6471,"date":"2010-11-11T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/UpbeaT\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2010-11-11T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:00:42","slug":"the-bound-paper-thingy-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2010\/11\/11\/the-bound-paper-thingy-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bound Paper Thingy Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mental note to self, this is called a BOOK!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nEmpress Irene was playing hard to get.\n\nI had been trying in vain to research this stealthy 8th century ruler of the Byzantine Empire for five days and I was coming up empty handed. Last year I had gone on a tour of the monolith that one of my professors affectionately refers to as \u201cFort Book\u201d. The Robarts tour was informative and it had included a\u00a045 minute workshop in e-resource search engines.\u00a0So as\u00a0I began my research, I purposefully typed Irene's name into the scholars portal search engine. I employed all the steps that I had been taught. But, Irene was not materializing in cyber space.\n\nSometimes when I'm craving a sweet, I will look into\u00a0my fridge over and over again in the vain hope that a\u00a0tasty\u00a0treat will become visible. I keep looking\u00a0even though I have already looked\u00a0in the fridge ten times. I think I'm hoping that a chocolate cake, will magically appear behine the mayo.\u00a0After spending four hours late one night typing the same keywords into the search fields over and over again, I realized Empress Irene was no more likley to appear on my laptop screen than a cake was\u00a0to appear in my fridge. I have been told the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Empress Irene was driving me crazy. I knew I needed professional help.\nI recalled being told about a service that is offered through the libraries, to help students do research for papers. I found the site to book a research consultation on the library\u2019s main site<\/a>,\nIt was two days later when I met with Dave Hagelaar at Kelly Library<\/a><\/a>. Dave was great! I didn\u2019t even have to explain to him who Empress Irene was. He was already well aware of her historical significance and the fact that she was a very cheeky Empress to research.\n

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The Research Consultation Room at Kelly Library<\/dd> <\/dl><\/div>\nIn my week of searching I had found one article about Irene. Dave found eighteen in a matter of minutes. I was unable to find any e-resources. Dave found five.\n\nDave is my new hero. He not only showed me that the articles existed, he also taught me how to find them. Did you know that if you leave the search field blank and press go, the search engine pulls from a much wider group of databases? I didn\u2019t. Did you know that if you put an asterisk at the end of a word in a search field that the engine will pull up that word and every conceivable ending for that word that occurs within the database? I didn\u2019t.\n\nAt one point, in trying to explain to him that my search had yielded only books, so excited was I that I couldn\u2019t recall the word book. It came out something like this \u201call I can find are those bound paper thingies\u201d! I\u2019m not usually this dense...but in the dark, scary pit of researching an elusive historical figure, the blinding light of rescue\u00a0is just that, blinding. The overwhelming relief I felt, coupled with the mental processing of new search methods left me short for words.\n\nI am happy to say that I have now found Irene. She\u2019s in my binder. It\u2019s okay if she executes a successful escape because I now know where to find her.\n\nKelly Library\u2019s research consultation service is brand new this year, so it's not hard to get an appointment. But do it now...before word gets out about how great this resource is. Research consultations are available by appointment at most of the main libraries on campus. According to Dave,\u00a0Kelly Library\u00a0receives a mix of appointment requests from undergrad and grad students. So this resource is really for everybody.\n\nHappy Researching!\n\n-Lori","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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