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SECTION III
Logging ON to the library Distance Education Home Page
for Communicative Disorders Students
The first
place to go on the Internet road to the library is to the CSUN Home Page. The
URL address is: http://www.csun.edu
It will look like this:
CSUN Home Page
The next step, on the CSUN Home Page, is to click the cursor on
the words “University Library,” in
the middle of the list to the left of the picture.
This will take you to the Library Home page (see the
picture below). It’s a good idea to add this address to
your Bookmarks.
http://library.csun.edu/
CSUN Library Home Page
From the
Library Home page we will want to navigate to the Distance Education Home
Page for Communicative Disorders. This page is
our on-line Library Mecca ! Much of the information you
will need (particularly recent updates) can be accessed from this page.
There is an old saying that “All roads lead to Mecca .”
All right, it was really Rome , but the principle applies, that in the labyrinth of the library
on-line system, there are many paths to a particular destination. The DE Home
Page for Communicative Disorders is no exception. You will come across many
ways to get there (the best of which is to Bookmark it, once you have gotten
there the first time.) I will show one route now, however, that has some
interesting points along the way
On the Library Home Page, click on the words, “About the
Library” (the second heading in the right hand column). This will take you
to a screen called, as you might have suspected, “About the
University Library.”
http://library.csun.edu/about.html
And true to its word, every thing and more a person would want to
know about the CSUN Library, it’s layout, services and people can be
accessed from this page. We, however, have a life and are interested in
only one feature—library personnel. That is because we have a
Librarian specialist specifically assigned to help students in Communicative
Disorders. She will be one of the most important allies you have in
finding resources on-line for your research, and getting them to you! So
I would like to introduce you to her Web Page.
About the University Library
Hence, on the About the University Library page, you
should click on the “Librarian Specialties” link (again,
the second heading in the right-hand column). This will take you to another
screen called, “Librarian Assignments”
http://library.csun.edu/librarians.html
Librarians
Specialties (Assignments)
Listed at the top of this screen are the names of the Librarian
Specialists. We are fortunate to have assigned to our Department, Marcia
Henry, who is without equal this side of heaven in the area of computer
based research and databases. Marcia Henry’s direct phone line is
(818) 677 3012, and her email is…
marcia.henry@csun.edu
If you click your cursor on her name (in the third column from the
right on the Librarian Specialties Page) you will come to Marcia’s
Library Web Page: http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/
Marcia Henry’s University Library Web Page
There is a wealth of links to information on this page, which you
may wish to explore briefly. But particularly germane to our focus here
is the link to the Distance Education Communication Science and Disorders web
page. When you click on that link, you have arrived! It’s a
long page so you will need to scroll to the bottom to see everything…
http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/de-comdis.htm
(For students on campus there is another home page with the same information in a slightly different format…
http://library.csun.edu/mhenry/bibcd.html
… which eliminates information that pertains to Distance Education Students only)
ADD THIS PAGE TO YOUR BOOKMARKS. Then
examine it closely. It has critical information about important
procedures that you will need to know as a Distance Ed. Student. This
page will clarify much for you and will provide you with the MOST RECENT
UPDATES AND CHANGES. Refer to this page and the CD home page frequently
to help clarify your confusions and to become familiar with the databases.
For example, the first thing you might want to note on this page
is the role your Barcode plays in gaining admittance to a
number of University Databases. The Barcode is the 14 digit number on
the back of the CSUN Photo ID card.
Communicative Disorders Distance Learners: Databases and Document Delivery
First Steps
Your 14 digit barcode will allow
you access to our Library thru the Proxy Server
Your 14 digit barcode helps you
preview your patron record.
One database of particular importance, for example, that requires
the Barcode is Ingenta (which was formerly Carl Uncover). This
service is unique in that it will fax the article to you at the
University’s expense—up to a limit of 24 per year.
Since they charge by the page, incidentally, it would be prudent for
student’s to pay themselves for short articles (using a credit card) and
let the University pay for the long articles! Don’t tell anyone I
suggested that, however, or they’ll send me back to teaching Tropical
Agriculture courses at the junior college up in Gnome again.
Look carefully, also, at the Book and Documentary Delivery section
which says…
Books and Document Delivery
Allow at least two weeks for
Delivery; and Identify yourself as a DE student
Books CSUN owns will be
mailed to your home - 2 week loan.
CSUN ownership is usually
identified by using both WorldCat and CSUN Library Online Catalog. You Request
either using WorldCat or the CSUN's Interlibrary Loan Book Form Remember:
Identify yourself! as a student in the Online/DE Masters Degree Speech Pathology.
…and much more!
Check out all the links. For you folks who live
outside bicycling range of the University, this is the backbone of the whole
Distance Ed research process; and an understanding of the procedures, timelines
and limitations is essential to the conduct of the research you will need to
do.
Now glance at the left hand column (in blue, or green depending on what glasses I am wearing, sorry
about that). Listed there are links to many of the databases that you
will need to access in order to complete the homework assignment for this
section--as well as survive for the rest of the Master’s program.
These are helpful shortcuts to these sources that will save you a lot of time.
Communicative Disorders Distance Learners: Databases and Document Delivery (Left hand Column)
There is a host of other helpful links providing suggestions on
research on this Page, so take the time to follow them and learn what they have
to offer. When all else fails, the most enduring source is the librarian.
Note that you can contact one also from the link on that page…
Communicative Disorders Distance Learners: Databases and Document Delivery
(continued)
Now before we begin to discuss how to identify the appropriate Databases (Section V), we would like to make brief statement about our Proxy Server (Section IV).