Prof. Vleugels’ MCOM classes

Hello,

Here’s just a quick review of what I went over in your class today

Newspaper Archives

If you’re wanting to find how a story ran that day it appeared in the New York Times, then turn to the New York Times Historical.

My example in class was for Pearl Harbor.

I simpled visited the Find Articles (Databases) page (located on the left-hand side of our homepage http://library.uco.edu/) and then picked the letter “N”.

Once on the NYT Historical searching page, I entered “Pearl Harbor” in my search string and limited my dates to around the attack.  The attacked occurred on December 7th 1941 but unlike today, news didn’t travel fast then… So most mention of Pearl Harbor isn’t going to show up until December 8, 1941…

From there, we can view the articles as they originally ran and see a page map to know where exactly they were placed in the New York Times.

Newspaper Sources

Now, if you’re needing more current newspaper articles, please know that many of our databases index many different newspapers and magazines…

Some databases you might wish to turn to if needing more up to date information are:

Newspaper Source which contains 139 regional U.S. newspapers, 19 international newspapers, 6 newswires, for a total of 174 full text newspapers and other sources

Oklahoman Archives which contains full page screen captures of every issue of the Oklahoman. Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are included.

News Bank which contains full text articles from the Oklahoman, Tulsa World and other local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

You can even find newpaper and magazine articles in Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier!

Many other databases and sources can be found by selecting either “Communications” or “Current Events” in the upper left-hand corner drop down box on the Databases’ pages: http://library.uco.edu/databases/

Biographical information

There are many ways in which you can obtain biographical information about your chosen figure.  You can turn to our biographical databases and do a name search.

Biography Reference Bank

or Biography Master Index

Or, if your person isn’t in the biographical databases, you might try Who’s Who.

Who’s Who is a comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Includes the following data elements: birth data, family, education and degree, career history, creative works, awards, military history, achievements, current memberships, interests/hobbies, and contact information.

For a quick visual tutorial of using Who’s Who and Biography Reference Bank, click on this link (there is NO sound): http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cQnhFenPO

Ok, well that’s about that.  Remember, if you have any questions, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

See you around the library!  And, don’t be scared to ask us for help!!! That’s our purpose!

Amanda Lemon

Dr. Kelsey’s MCOM 4910

Interested in how to text a librarian? Then watch this!

Remember, just put ucolibraryhelp: in the body of your text (plus your question) and send your question along to 265010

Now, about your library class today…

Advanced searching via Google

Using ” “ around words or a phrase will only find results with those words inside the ” “

Thus “crisis plan” on Google would only bring up results with those two words (crisis + plan) side by side.

Using an * between words is a proximity search

Thus crisis * plan would search for things such as crisis management plan or crisis communications plan, etc.

Using a – next to a word would act as a NOT operator

Thus, searching for crisis plan -depression would rid any plans dealing with personal crises such as the postpartum depression site that came up during class.

Finally, if you want to restrict your results to a certain site or domain ending use the site:

Thus, site:.edu would only bring up results associated with educational websites and site:ucok.edu would only bring up results from UCO’s webpage.

There are many, many other advanced Google search operators that you can find here.

Thus if I was wanting to find an example of a crisis plan for a University, etc. I might try the following search:

From here, I will find various examples of crisis plans from Duke, LSU, Virginia Tech, etc.

Find books on how to prepare crisis plans, etc

Now, if you’re wanting more of a how-to for crisis planning preparation you might turn to our library catalog for relevant titles.

Doing a “crisis plan” keyword search in our catalog will pull up that ebook title we looked at in class

How to prepare for and respond to a crisis (click on book cover for access)

Remember you can also do a Library of Congress Subject Headings search. You do that by selecting “Library of Congress Subject Heading” in the #2 box and entering either the search terms crisis, crisis management, or disaster planning.

Searching for articles

Part of your assignment is to now search for articles related to crises. To do this you may want to turn to our library databases.

Click on the “Find Articles (Databases)” link on the library homepage and then choose your subject category via the dropdown box in the upper left-hand corner.

Two subject categories you might consider are the “News Sources” and/or “Communications”

The databases we searched in during class were Oklahoman Archives and Communications and Mass Media.

Other databases such as Lexis Nexis News, NewsBank, etc. will also point you to other articles. Remember that each databases indexes (or pulls its information) from different sources so while some your results might overlap in some databases, you will most definitely find something unique in each and every database.

Well, I wish you luck on your research!

Please remember, if you ever need help you can visit the Reference desk on the 1st floor.

You can also chat with a Reference librarian online, email us, call us (405-974-2878), and now text us!

Have a lovely afternoon,

Amanda

MCOM 3263 — Radio & Televisions Writing — Dr. Gwen Olivier

MCOM 3263 — Radio & Television Writing — Dr. Gwen Olivier

Useful Article Databases

Communication & Mass Media

Business Source Premier

PsycInfo

MLA (Modern Languages Association) Int’l Bibliography

Some Possible Keywords..
public service announce* or psa*	and	screenwrit*
commercial		writ*
advertis*		compos*
screenplay*		script or scripts
teleplay*		scriptwrit*
video recording*		technique*
mass media		technical writ*
train*		technical communica*
occupatinal training

Book Catalogs

UCO Library Catalog

WorldCat

U. S. Government Statistical Resources