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Library Resources for First Year Curriculum (FYS and CCC): First Year Seminar

Library Session 1: First Year Seminar: THEME: Orientation

Learning Objectives

  1. Contact the Reference Librarian
  2. Identify Library Spaces and Their Purposes
  3. Navigate and Find Basic Information from the Library Website
  4. Locate a book (print and ebook)
  5. Use Library of Congress Classification System

Activities

Before class

  1. Watch librarian welcome video
  2. Respond to survey Canvas survey about library instruction expectations

During class

  1. Tour
  2. Navigate library website - group activity
  3. Locate books and ebooks - demonstration and hands-on activity
  4. Library of Congress classification - hands-on activity
  5. Assessment - interactive quiz

 

Navigate Library Website

Search all Library Collections at One Time

Library of Congress Call Numbers

Library Session 2: First Year Seminar: THEME: Find Quality Sources

Learning Objectives

  1. Create Search Strategy Using Boolean Logic
  2. Revise Search Strategy Using Keywords and Subject Terms
  3. Locate Book
  4. Locate Journal Article and Limit to Scholarly
  5. Request Item Through Interlibrary Loan
  6. Recognize Academic Research Terminology

Activities

Before class

  1. Watch two videos about search strategies
  2. Take short ungraded quiz in Canvas

During class

  1. Create search strategy using Boolean - review and interactive activity
  2. Revise search strategy - review
  3. Locate a book - demonstration
  4. Locate a journal article
    1. Define journals - group activity
    2. Locate journal articles - demonstration
  5. Locate resources for upcoming research paper - workshop
  6. Assessment - interactive quiz

 

Search Strategies - VIEW VIDEOS BEFORE CLASS

BEFORE CLASS:

  1. View these two short videos about search strategies.
  2. Answer the quiz questions in Canvas.

Search all Library Collections at One Time

Search the Library Databases for Journal Articles

Class padlet for results

Ask a Librarian

Contact Librarians

Liz Kielley

Discovery and Metadata Librarian
e-mail address: ekielley@messiah.edu
Telephone: 717-691-6006 ext.3850

Liaison librarian for:

  • Communication
  • Counseling (Graduate)
  • Human Development & Family Science
  • Music
  • Psychology, Criminal Justice & Sociology
  • Social Work
  • Theater & Dance
  • Biblical Religious & Philosophical Studies
  • Business

Sarah Myers
Public Services Librarian
e-mail address: smyers@messiah.edu
Telephone: 717-691-6006 ext.3590

Liaison librarian for:

  • Art & Design
  • Cocurricular & External Programs
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Graduate Education, Graduate Higher Education
  • History, Politics & International Relations
  • Language, Literature & Writing

Beth Transue
Information Literacy Librarian
e-mail address: btransue@messiah.edu
Telephone: 717-691-6006 ext.3810

Liaison librarian for:

  • Athletic Training
  • Biological Sciences
  • Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Dietetic Internship
  • Health, Nutrition & Exercise Science
  • Computing, Mathematics & Physics
  • Nursing (UG, ADP & Grad)
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy