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Welcome to the RIT Library
Introductory Scavenger Hunt!

Test your knowledge of RIT Library, its services, sources and facilities!

Fill in the blanks by positioning your cursor within each box. All answers can be obtained by searching the RIT Library Web server at http://wally.rit.edu. You can either open up a new window and search the Wallace Web then fill in the answers as you go along, or print this document out, find the answers and fill them in online at http://wally.rit.edu/instruction/questions.html.

HINT: Follow the Hint links if you need to do some background reading to answer the questions.

NOTE: For every correct answer a happy face will appear. For every wrong answer a question mark will appear. If your answer cannot be entered, it is longer than the correct response! There is one precise answer which must match the correct response.

FRESHMAN SEMINAR STUDENTS: After you correctly complete the scavenger hunt, you will receive a congratulatory statement. You may print this statement out.

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  1. At RIT Library there is an area where students can go to get help searching for books, articles and conducting research. This area is called the ? desk.


  2. Where on the library's web pages (provide URL) will you find pointers to the many databases, indexing, abstracting and full-text materials to which the library subscribes and makes available to RIT students, faculty and staff?
    http://


  3. What is the name of the RIT Library catalog where you can search for materials owned by this library?


  4. Selecting Research Databases from the Library's Home Page, which online database provides full-text articles from the backfiles of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences?


  5. What is the URL for the RIT Library instruction guide which shows the MLA citation format? (Look under the general research information category of the guides)
    http://


  6. Who is the librarian subject-specialist for Math?

  7. How are magazines on the current magazine shelves arranged? (hint--one word ending in "ly".)


  8. In developing a search strategy the Boolean Operators most heavily used are AND and OR. AND requires that both words appear in the search results while OR requires that either search word appears in the resulting set.
    Choose one:

    9. a. True
    b. False

  9. You are required to do a research paper on the topic "The role of mass media, specifically television advertising, in influencing popular culture." Pick the best search strategy from the choices below that would be likely to best retrieve information on that topic.
    Choose one:

    10. a. (mass media and television) or culture or (advertising and commercials)
    b. (mass media or television) and culture and (advertising or commercials)
    c. mass media and television and culture and advertising and commercials
    d. mass media or television or culture or advertising or commercials

  10. To search for books on the subject listed above you would be most successful if you were to look in which set of databases?
    Choose one:

    11. a. SIRS Researcher & RoaringCat
    b. Readers Guide & Social Science Abstracts
    c. ABI /Inform and General Science Abstracts
    d. Einstein and WorldCat
    e. SIRS Researcher and Wilson Select

  11. To find citations to magazines and journals on the subject listed above you would be most successful if you were to look in which set of databases?
    Choose one:

    12. a. SIRS Researcher & RoaringCat
    b. Readers Guide & Social Science Abstracts
    c. ABI/Inform and General Science Abstracts
    d. Einstein and WorldCat
    e. SIRS Researcher and Wilson Select

  12. To find full-text magazine and journal articles on the subject listed above you would be most successful if you were to look in which set of databases?
    Choose one:

    13. a. SIRS Researcher & RoaringCat
    b. Readers Guide & Social Science Abstracts
    c. ABI /Inform and General Science Abstracts
    d. Einstein and WorldCat
    e. SIRS Researcher and Wilson Select

    EXAMINE THE RECORD BELOW AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW.

  13. Is this a record for a book or a journal article?
    Choose one:

    14. a. Book
    b. Journal

  14. What is the name of the database from which this record came?
    Choose one:

    15. a. FirstSearch
    b. Biotechnology Abstracts
    c. Einstein
    d. Wilson Select

  15. Is the full-text of the article available?
    Choose one:

    16. a. Yes
    b. No

  16. Does the record contain an abstract?
    Choose one:

    17. a. Yes
    b. No

  17. What was the original search used to find this article record?
    Choose one:

    18. a. biotechnology AND patents
    b. Mark J. Hanson
    c. biotechnology OR research
    d. biotechnology OR patents
    e. biotechnology AND research

  18. What would be a good subject heading to search under to find articles on the same topic?
    Choose one:

    19. a. Genetic research - Ethical aspects.
    b. Biotechnology -Patents.
    c. Technology - Religious aspects.
    d. Biotechnology industry - United States.
    e. All of the above
    f. None of the above

  19. What is the title of the journal in which this article appears?
    Choose one:

    20. a. Religious Voices in Biotechnology
    b. Genetic Research; the ethical aspects
    c. Art - a feature magazine of Science
    d. The Hastings Center Report
    e. Online full-text available

    EXAMINE THE NEXT RECORD AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW:


    The above screen shot is from a search of ABI/Inform Proquest Direct database.

  20. Of the articles listed, how many have full-text available?
    Choose one:
    a. 2
    b. 6
    c. 7
    d. 4
    e. 10

  21. How many records were retrieved by the search?
    Choose one:
    a. At least 50
    b. More than 200
    c. 25
    d. 10

  22. Who is the author of the article which appears in the journal Technology Review?
    Choose one:
    a. Stephan Herrera
    b. Stephen Stinson
    c. Antonio Regalado
    d. Ellen Licking
    e. Anon.

When all questions have been answered correctly a confirmation certificate will serve as validation that you have SUCCESSFULLY navigated the library's scavenger hunt.

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