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Library Skills to Succeed in College. Nancy Guidry Dawn Dobie Bakersfield College Library. Are your students ready for college research?. Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Library Skills to Succeed in College
Nancy GuidryDawn Dobie
Bakersfield College Library
Are your students ready for college
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Do they have practice forming
good research questions?
Questions worth investigating
Start with reference reading
Narrow and widen topics
Edit focus as research
progresses
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Are they familiar with a wide spectrum of
sources?
Subject encyclopedias
Scholarly books
Periodicals
Web Sites
Others
Do they know about periodicals?
VocabularyJournalMagazineNewspaperPeer-
ReviewedPurposesAudiences
Do they have experience with online
databases?
How they work
What they are
How to access
How to search
For those databases, can they create good
search statements?
Keyword searching
Subject searching
Boolean operators
Limiters
Do they know that Web ≠ Google?
Visible Web—Only 1%!
Invisible WebDatabases
Search directories
Other strategies
Are they practiced at evaluating online
sources?
Thorough web evaluation skills essential
Six important questions
Using the BEST!
Do they know the world of citations?
Not the parking kind
Build citations for variety of sources in correct format
Be comfortable with array of in-text citation forms
What do your students know about plagiarism?
Understand what it is
Know how to avoid it
Be proficient atSummarizing
Paraphrasing
Quoting
Do your students use the library catalog?
Navigating a search
Comparing Library of Congress to Dewey Decimal
How can these skill areas be
strengthened?Working with Teacher
LibrariansSubject Specialist +
Research Specialist = TEAM
Learning in contextVariety of research
queriesVariety of project
formats
Do your students see the library as a resource
for more than books?
Other services frequently offered
Online subscriptions for periodicals and ebooks
Study space
Encourage your students to widen
their research knowledge
Online tutorials
Library workshopsOther academic workshops
Reference librarians love to help
Save time
Direct to resources
Help via many channels
Things they should carry
ID cardCashKnowledge of computer sign-
onHow to access school emailKnowledge of remote access
proceduresDatabases, ebooksOnline labs
Writing implements
Internet resource list available
Transitioning to College: Helping You Succeed (Kent State)
Assignment Calculator (UCLA)
Citing Sources within Your Paper (Duke)
Websites Mentioned
Articles and reports cited (in order of mention in presentation)
Scribner, Sara. “Saving the Google Students.” Los Angeles Times 21 March 2010. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scribner21-2010mar21,0,764753.story
Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009 ACT http://www.act.org/research/curricsurvey.html
“The Web That’s Hidden from You” Weekend Edition Sunday. National Public Radio. 27 Dec 2009 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121946548
Other online resources
Transitioning to College: Joint project between Kent State University, academic, and high school librarians in Ohio http://www.transitioning2college.org/index.html
Assignment Calculator: UCLA Road to Research Tutorial http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/modules/freecalc/index.php
Citing Sources within Your Paper: Duke Libraries Reference & Research http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/within/index.html