ODIN delivers new sources for students
By Kim Guzzi
If you’re having trouble find
ing sources for a research pro
ject, you just might be in luck.
The Herndel Library is cur
rently using the Online
Database Information Network
-- a computer which stores a
large number of databases in
diverse fields of study.
ODIN, as it is more popularly
known, can search for informa
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cess with much more im
mediacy. Manipulating the
databases can provide you with
those hard-to-fmd lists of cita
tions for articles, technical
reports, books, dissertations,
and other materialrelating to
your research topic.
“ODIN is an additional tool
we have in the library which in
creases our ability to match
people’s information needs,”
says Charles Townley, Division
Head, Heindel Library. “Some
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informational searches are
done best by ODIN while others
are done best by hand. It
depends on the nature of the
research topic,” stresses
Townley.
For example, if your topic is
“The Use of Computers in Stu
dent Personnel Divisions in
Pennsylvania Colleges and
Universities,” and you’re hav
ing some difficulty finding
sources in your manual search,
then an ODIN search may help.
You must first complete the
ODIN search form which will
enable you to define key words
relating to your topic. Special
thesauruses are available for
the use of locating these
synonyms.
A reference librarian who is
specially trained to use ODIN
will then punch in the informa
tion you have provided into the
ODIN system.
The computer begins to print
responses to the number of
sources relating to the key
words. In this case, the
synonyms are student personnel
services, computers, higher
education, and Pennsylvania.
By intermixing these synonyms,
the computer then narrows
down the number of relevant
sources. For this particular
topic, thirty-one sources are
available.
The librarian may instruct
ODIN to print each
bibliography with or without an
abstract. ODIN presents
sources --- it does not analyze
them for you.
It is up to you to locate the
sources which are found on
microfiche or in hard copy in
the Heindel Library, or may be
obtained through an inter
library loan.
The ODIN search system
may provide you with valuable
sources that you otherwise
might have overlooked, and is
available to graduate students
and faculty, and in cases where
the information is otherwise
unattainable, to undergraduates
as well.
Graduate students beginning
thesis research should stop by
the reference desk or call the
Heindel Library at 948-6073.
In Norse mythology Odin is,
among other things, the god of
knowledge and wisdon. Maybe
the ODIN here at Capitol Cam
pus can put its knowledge to
work for you.