Prepared by:
Sarah Brick Archer
Assistant Professor of Library Services
rm. #L308B
ext #3267
General Information:
Maps
Hours
Public Library hours (M-TH 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Friday 9:00 a.m. to
6:00 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.; Sunday closed)
The
John Vaughan
Library Physical Overview CLIP tutorial provides introductory material
to the library's collections and services. The
Research Strategies
CLIP tutorial provides an overview to the research process. Use the CLIP
tutorials to reinforce topics that are covered in class.
The librarians are available Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00
p.m. at the first floor Reference Desk. The Archivist, Victoria Sheffler
is available the same hours in Archives. She is also the Records Management
person on campus. Delores Sumner, Special Collections Librarian, is
available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m. Each academic unit also has a resource coordinator assigned to it. There
are no students on second or third floors. Please ask at Circulation
or Reserve and a student will go with you to second or third floor.
There are no fines on regular books that are overdue. There are fines
for Reserve and other special materials. Circulation has listings on
fine information. Magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference materials
do not circulate.
We do have closed stack areas in the library. Archives, Special Collections,
Reserve, and some older materials are in closed stacks. The researcher
requests materials and these are pulled for you. Some materials can't
be copied based on copyright and fragility of the documents.
K-12 textbooks are located on the second floor in Curriculum Materials.
Interlibrary Loan is available for items not found in our library. Inquire
at Circulation or the Reference Desk for forms.
Each user id has a 400 page per semester print limit. This is only
in the library. Other labs have additional limits. You may add
100 pages for $5.00. Inquire at Circulation.
Journalism Overview:
Journalism materials are classified in the PNs. On the first floor
are journalism dictionaries, style manuals and other reference tools. On
second floor and in electronic format are the journals available in Journalism.
On third floor are the circulating books, such as books on improving
writing and examples of good reporting. There are also useful videos
(
All the President's Men) available at the Reserve Desk. A
listing of
subject
resources is available for Mass Comm.
Books and Magazines:
Online Catalog (Indexes library
holdings, including Special Collections. Does not include Archives and
articles within magazines, journals, and newspapers.)
NetLibrary
WorldCat
Library of Congress
Other
databases
Newspaper sources:
The Northeastern--available in Special Collections and Archives
Daily Oklahoman--2nd collection
Tahlequah Spec. Collections
Muskogee, Ft. Gibson, Sequoyah (April to present in paper in Special
Collections)
Tulsa World is in Special Collections
New
York Times Historical
NewsBank
(Tulsa World, Daily Oklahoman)
Newspaper
Source
Approaching Questions:
Try to define that for which you are looking and break it down into smaller
parts.
Library of Congress
Where information can be found:
Defining terms--dictionaries, both general (
OED)
and subject (
Oxford
Reference Center) dictionaries
Overview to topic: encyclopedias (
Encyclopaedia
Britannica)
Histories, trends, etc.--books (
online
catalog,
NetLibrary)
Addresses--directories, both online and in print (don't forget the telephone
& Information services)
Legal --print, Internet, courthouses, Westlaw
Statistics--federal and state government depts., bureaus, agencies,
United
States Statistical Abstract (Ready Ref. HA 202)
Oklahoma Statistical Abstract,
U.S. Census Bureau, World Almanac and
Book of Facts (Ready Ref. AY 67.N5W7)
OSBI <http://www.osbi.state.ok.us/>
Includes statistics and public record news releases.
Facts: Facts on File Yearbook Ref. D 410.F3,
CIA World Fact Book
(Ref. G 122.U56a), ACCRA Cost of Living Index (Ref. HB 235.U6C58) See example
of
comparison,
Consumer Price Index ,
Cost of Living Calculator
Expertise--professional associations (Encyclopedia of Associations Ref. HS
17.G334), professors, published authors in field
Public records
Non-directory information about a person is considered private and not
released until you die. Census information is not released for 72 years.
To locate a death record from 1983, you need to contact the Vital Statistics
or records office of the appropriate state.
Government info:
John
Vaughan Library Government Resources
Federal Government info:
U.S. Government Information
<http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/index.htm>
Thomas <http://thomas.loc.gov/>
current legislative information
Oklahoma state info:
Oklahoma Public
Records Finder
Oklahoma State Government
Online <http://www.odl.state.ok.us/sginfo/ok.htm>
Oklahoma County info:
Oklahoma County Public Records <http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/SearchMethod.htm>
Tulsa County <http://www.assessor.tulsacounty.org/>
Oklahoma
Counties <http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/clipboard.htm>
Legal info:
Findlaw Oklahoma
<http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/ok/laws.html>
Westlaw
Campus