Brock U TA Library Slideshow 2016
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Brock University Library slide show as part of a concurrent session for TA Day 2016.
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Brock U TA Library Slideshow 2016
- 1. http://www.slideshare.net/igordonbrockuca/brock-university-ta-day-library-slide-show-september-10-2016 T.A. Day – 2016 Ian Gordon & Evelyn Smith
- 2. This Session will … 1. Familiarize you with our … Resources Collections People Services Spaces 2. Give you an opportunity to … Work through scenarios, ask questions and provide feedback.
- 3. The Website
- 6. Resources for Known Item Searching Catalogue A-Z List of Journals
- 7. Resources from Other Universities RACER
- 8. Unique Collections & Services Special Collections and Archives
- 9. Unique Collections & Services Maps, Data & GIS Library Time Travelling?
- 10. Our People • Your Liaison Librarians • Reference Assistants @ the Ask Us Desk • Peer Assistants – students helping students
- 11. Our Services • The Ask Us Desk – Borrowing, help with printing & scanning, research help, interlibrary loan, inter-campus transfers • Graduate Student Lockers – Pick up an application form at the Ask Us Desk Floor 6 – South Side
- 12. Our Services • The Makerspace – We provide the tools, you create the magic • Copying & Printing Services – Includes Large Format Poster Printing
- 13. Our Spaces Providing with you with options … social space, group learning, quiet study, silent study
- 14. Getting Help: D.I.Y. Research Guides by Program … – Economics … and for “how-to” – How to Create a Research Poster – Style Guides Research on Demand videos on The Help Tab
- 15. Getting Help: More Support Book a Research Consultation with your librarian Help via online chat On your desktop, tablet or mobile phone Shared service with 14 Ontario Universities
- 16. Referring Your Students - Scenarios
- 17. Sources for Scholarly Articles My essay topic is how Intentional Behavior Therapy can benefit children with autism. Where can I get peer-reviewed articles?
- 18. Sources for Scholarly Articles
- 19. Sources for News Sources for News: Your student has tried everything to find information about the Walkerton water crisis. It made a lot of news headlines back in the 1990’s. How do you refer?
- 20. Sources for News
- 21. Help with Essay Style I’ve never used A.P.A. style for an essay. In high school I used M.L.A. Do you know where I can get help? I don’t have time to take a workshop.
- 22. Help with Essay Style
Editor's Notes
- Welcome Who we are
- Introduce the session. Ask: Tell us a bit about yourselves. How many of you are completely new to Brock? What Departments are you in?
- First things first – the website Link out and demo the homepage and show the main navigation tabs – 5 minutes max?
- Mention breadth of subjects, variety of material types, etc. Link out – search for … ? Hockey maybe? Worked before. Then narrow down to sports psychology? Show date toggle, etc. New Search for … sports psychology limit to books and media at Brock? Show e-books, show catalogue record. Limit my format type and select videos? Then come back to this screen and ask the group to note their takeaways about SuperSearch – I’ll type them in?
- Show Program Listing Show tabs across the top – e-books, trials, etc. Alphabetical – if they know what they want. Note there are 524 d’bases How to know if the d’base will be useful – clicking on “more information” Show special topics – legal information, news, primary sources, statistics and data, streaming video Ask for a topic – or potentially do sports psychology again – in Leisure Tourism d’base? Show ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. Then come back to this screen and ask the group to note their takeaways about our databases – I’ll type them in?
- V. Quick mention of these two
- Ask for a volunteer to set up an account Log-in and do a search for an item Find an obscure item in SuperSearch and request directly from the get it page. - Bothrytis Come back to this screen and ask for feedback. E. to record on this slide.
- Show Special Collections and Archives – show the old – Loyalist Collection and the new - Autism Collection.
- Show Map, Data & GIS – this is for everyone – not just Geography students & T.A.s GIS DAY Pi Day Show the DR Find Dissertations & Theses
- Ian – Mention role of Liaisons. Evelyn – talk up Reference Assistants at the Ask Us Desk and the Peer Assistants
- Jennifer