Library & Info Science Training

Things to keep in mind, when searching the free web.

Demonstrates how to efficiently and effectively search the Psychology and Behavioral Science database for peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles. Also touches upon citations.

This session presents three scenarios that can be answered by the AccessScience database.

Note: streaming video items can now be discovered through the catalog.

E-learners have a right to use the physical library space. But many will need to get more out of the virtual space. (This is an update of earlier video)

Discusses the writing philosophy of Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage.

Briefly discusses the writing philosophy of Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage.

Highlights some of the best library resources for students taking Criminal Justice classes online. Contains sample searches of CQ researcher and Newspaper Source online, citation building, and a visit to the help zone.

Students wrestling with their first college-level research papers often avoid help until it is too late for them to succeed. This video demonstrates a new type of data-driven referral that links a struggling student with both classroom and library faculty. It will focus on some of the challenges and possibilities that can improve the otherwise informal library referral.

Should you read "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis? This video takes you through the major elements and players without spoiling it.

Citation building can be accomplished using the MS Word reference tab. (Student should check their professors' instructions before using the MS Word for citations.)

Employ free technologies to efficiently keep statistics. This section covers sites and the distribution of forms.

Employ free technologies to efficiently keep statistics. This section covers form construction and the use of summaries.

Employ free technologies to efficiently keep statistics.

Oxford Music Online is a database that brings together three sources: The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music. This video demonstrates how one can use the database in conjunction with reference books in a "one source leads to another" strategy. A works cited list is populated accordingly.

Citation building is made simple when students discover databases have already done most of the work for them.

Students can reliably build works cited lists using a print style guide, like the one authored by Diana Hacker.

This video gives a definition of plagiarism, and some methods for successfully avoiding it.

This video gives a definition of plagiarism, and some methods for successfully avoiding it.

Dramatization of student suffering information overload, followed by a successful reference librarian intervention.

If your presentation will be accessible on the free web, it must respect copyright. This video demonstrates how usable content can be acquired from conventional search tools, and modified to suit your purposes. It will also cover how creative commons-licensed materials can be properly credited.

College level papers demand college level research. This video demonstrates the "perfect storm" of using poor sources and losing focus of what the assignment is actually about. Source diversity (using sources from multiple forms of media) is encouraged, and examples are given of how topic idea is translated into a thesis.

Reference Books continue to be a major source of information. A few easy search techniques can make the process of using them more efficient. Also describes the connection non-circulating reference books have to their subject-similar counterparts on the circulating stacks.

Today we're tackling one of the "current issues" databases, using searching methods and browsing methods. We'll see pro and con view, and also look at the database's citations.

Contrasts journals written and edited by experts with popular press magazines.

Explores the underused but often effective E-book selection.

Details the operation of CINAHL (the cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature), including the use of common limiters, methods for narrowing subjects, and the process of citation.

Includes examples showing the limiters (occupation, chronology, gender) that can assist students seeking biographies.

The rarely employed boolean operator NOT has a specific use.

Use of Boolean operators AND / OR are essential to search in practically every database.

This video introduces some of the tools (catalog, databases) that students can browse for topics. From there, it covers the issue of scope, and the definition of a thesis statement. (See the "Citation Forecast" video for more on that topic.)