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Library Session 1: First Year Seminar: THEME: Orientation
Learning Objectives
- Contact the Reference Librarian
- Identify Library Spaces and Their Purposes
- Navigate and Find Basic Information from the Library Website
- Locate a book (print and ebook)
- Use Library of Congress Classification System
Activities
Before class
- Watch librarian welcome video
- Respond to survey Canvas survey about library instruction expectations
During class
- Tour
- Navigate library website - group activity
- Locate books and ebooks - demonstration and hands-on activity
- Library of Congress classification - hands-on activity
- Assessment - interactive quiz
Library Session 2: First Year Seminar: THEME: Find Quality Sources
Learning Objectives
- Create Search Strategy Using Boolean Logic
- Revise Search Strategy Using Keywords and Subject Terms
- Locate Book
- Locate Journal Article and Limit to Scholarly
- Request Item Through Interlibrary Loan
- Recognize Academic Research Terminology
Activities
Before class
- Watch two videos about search strategies
- Take short ungraded quiz in Canvas
During class
- Create search strategy using Boolean - review and interactive activity
- Revise search strategy - review
- Locate a book - demonstration
- Locate a journal article
- Define journals - group activity
- Locate journal articles - demonstration
- Locate resources for upcoming research paper - workshop
- Assessment - interactive quiz
Library Session 3: Created and Called for Community: THEME: Document Sources
Learning Objectives
- Identify parts of a citation
- Create simple book and journal article citations
- Find book and journal article based on citation, rather than topic
- Use citation management software
Activities
Before class
- Watch video about Zotero citation management software
- Answer two questions about whether you use citation management software
During class
- Identify parts of a citation - group activity
- Create simple book and article citations - group activity
- Find book and journal article based on a given citation - group activity
Library Session 4: Created and Called for Community: THEME: Evaluate and Integrate a Variety of Sources
Learning Objectives
- Revise search strategy to include a variety of sources
- Evaluate resources
- Determine if a resource is scholarly
- Use interlibrary loan appropriately
Activities
Before class
- Review search strategy materials from First Year Seminar
- Watch video about evaluating resources and take a short quiz
- Watch video about determining if a source is scholarly and take a short quiz
During class
- Revise search strategy to include a variety of sources - workshop
- Evaluate resources - group activity and share with class
- Determine if a resource is scholarly - group activity and share with class
- Use interlibrary loan appropriately - short demo during discussions
- Assessment - interactive quiz