Assignment 4 - Thesaurus Assignment

1. Read: Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri
Document Number: ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 . Tell me that you have read the reading.

2. You are assisting a library user who needs scholarly journal articles on how use of email affects face-to-face communication. a) You are to suggest three excellent databases to search: one from education, one from psychology, and one from sociology. b) For each of the databases you recommend, assist the user by suggesting appropriate descriptors for each of the three databases. c) Then, come up with appropriate search strings for each of the three databases incorporating the descritpors, the appropriate field tags, Boolean logic, nesting (parentheses), and truncation (if appropriate). d) Report the results of the searches for each of the three databases.

3. Find the best headings for these concepts from the ERIC Thesaurus:

a) OPAC

b) ESL

c) TESOL

d) Library school

e) Ape

f) Mongolism

g) Statistical theories

4. Explain how PsycInfo indexes articles about "teens".