COMP 150 Fall 17
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The document welcomes students to Reed Library and provides an overview of the services and resources available. It details that the library offers research help at the desk, by phone and email, and through 24/7 chat. It also provides services like checking out and renewing items, scanning, copying and printing. The collections include 150k books, 200k ebooks, over 100 databases, textbooks and other materials on reserve, as well as streaming music and videos. Popular books, DVDs and magazines are also available.
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COMP 150 Fall 17
- 1. WELCOME TO REED LIBRARY! COMP 150 * Fall 2017
- 2. WHAT DOES REED LIBRARY HAVETO OFFER? Services Research help: At the desk By phone & email 24/7 chat Check out & renew items Scanning, copying, & printing Borrowing from Prospector Study rooms with wall-mounted monitors Collections 150k books & 200k ebooks 100+ Databases Textbooks* & more on reserve Streaming music & videos Popular books, DVDs, & magazines
- 5. Library Engine is a great place to start your research *if* you’re smart about how you use it.
- 8. TOO BROAD?TRY AN ADVANCED SEARCH
- 10. CANYOU FIND: Information about journalistic ethics published in the last 5 years in academic journals
- 11. YES,YOU CAN! JUST USETHE LIMITERS.
- 12. I KNOW YOU DON’T GET ALL OF YOUR INFORMATION FROM THE LIBRARY.
- 13. GOTOTHE COMP 150 RESEARCH GUIDE FOR A LINK:
- 14. THOUGHTS?
- 18. CONSIDERTHESE “FAKE NEWS CLUES”: •It can’t be verified •It’s heavily biased •It appeals to your emotions •The author isn’t an expert •It comes from a fake website
- 19. WHY DOES IT MATTER?
- 20. Let’s look at an article from the NewYorkTimes together: https://nyti.ms/2k1AjO8
- 22. WHENYOU NEED HELP, ASK! 24/7 chat phone Email reference desk
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to Reed Library! Introduce self. How many people have been to the library before? What types of things did you do here? (Mention checking out books for schoolwork, course reserves, leisure reading, DVDs, can read magazines on your phone, tablet, or laptop, or borrow items likes books, CDs, or DVDs from other libraries through Prospector. Also mention printing, scanning, and copying are available here, too.)
- Many of you are new to our library, so I wanted to give you an overview of what you can do here.
- Please go to library.fortlewis.edu. We’re going to use the Library Engine to search for something. The Library Engine is a meta-search engine that searches lots of library databases at once. It doesn’t search all of them, some databases’ results don’t show up and have to be searched separately. Librarians can help you with that. This is a good place to start your research.
- The library website is your gateway to information, help, and even entertainment.
- Searching Library Engine is a great way to start a research project. But you have to be smart about how you use it, because it’s a powerful search engine that still contains junk, just like Google. If you tell it exactly what you need, it will usually provide it. Google is no longer appropriate as your primary research tool in college. Your professors expect you to be using the library’s resources, and luckily, that’s not hard to do.
- Start with a simple search and see what happens. You can make it more complex if you need to.
- Go ahead and do a search for journalism and we’ll look at the results together. What kind of resources do you see? When were they published? Which are online and which can you find on the shelves in the library?
- When you need to narrow your results down to a more specific topic, use the Advanced Search tool under the search box. This lets you add more topics one search box at a time.
- Limiters are your friend. They help you focus your results on what you actually need or want. Many assignments will require you to cite peer-reviewed articles, so don’t waste your time browsing through results that include magazine articles, news, videos, and books.
- It’s your turn to give this a try. I’m going to give you all a minute to find information about journalistic ethics that was published in an academic journal in the last five years. Raise your hand once you’ve found info about journalistic ethics published in the last 5 years in academic journals. <Ask students how they performed their search, discuss what worked and what didn’t, different ways to get the same results, etc.>
- You can easily get that information by applying the right limiters. Change the Publication Date limiter to 2012-2017 and click “academic journals” under source type. Luckily you’ll never have to find sources for a paper in just 60 seconds, but at least now you know how to get started using LibraryEngine efficiently.
- Sometimes you need to use the internet to find information. Let’s take a look at one article.
- Find this news article on the COMP 150 Research Guide. Have students read on their own. Can put on the board: What makes it seem credible? (e.g. explain what a JD is, global warming is a real topic, NASA is a real agency, etc.) What are some questions that come to mind? (e.g. facts that don’t seem real, title, where is the author’s proof or resources?)
- Ask students what they think of this article? This article is an example of “fake news” or “hoax news.” These websites deliberately publish hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation under the guise of real news. These websites often use social media to drive web traffic to increase their impact. Why do they do this? Fake news websites seek to mislead their readers rather than entertain. They do this for financial, political, or other gain. This concept is not new. Unethical journalistic practices date back to hundreds of years before the invention of the Internet. During the latter portion of the Gilded Age of the late 19th Century (after the Civil War and Reconstruction, during the mid-1890s), there was a something called yellow journalism. This occurred in New York City as two newspapers sensationalized the news in order to drive up circulation. They often published stories that had little to no legitimate research, exaggerated facts, and used faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudoscience, and false information from supposed experts. (Sound familiar?) There was real news published during that time, too, but yellow journalism had a negative impact on its readers and American society.
- Can you find a source for this quote? Does Dr. Robert Roland, biology and solar energy expert exist? Discuss and demonstrate how there are some parts of the article they can fact-check or verify (e.g. committee and its members), however, there are quotes or sentences that seem unrealistic and can’t be found elsewhere.
- Does this seem biased at all? Can you verify this information?
- What do we know about the author of this article? (He sure specializes in… everything!) About realnewsrightnow.com? If it has to say REAL NEWS in the title, does that make it seem real or fake?
- To recap, consider these fake news clues while you’re reading. Beware of confirmation bias while you’re reading. That’s the tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms your existing beliefs or theories. We tend not to question things that match what we already think or believe.
- The ability to tell accurate news from fake news is an important skill that you'll use for the rest of your life. President Trump has tweeted about “fake news” 20 times (as of 2/28)! It obviously matters to him, it matters to our First Amendment, and it matters because it affects your ability to be informed.
- Review how an average person with few Twitter followers shared false information which quickly went viral. (Since the article is long, can review it on the screen together as a class as time allows. This helps students who read more slowly than others.) In the end, it didn’t matter that the initial Tweet was false, the incorrect information was shared more frequently and more quickly.
- Bottom line: Question everything! How many people have seen “Stranger Things” on Netflix? No spoilers here, but how does that relate to what we talked about today? The kids and adult heroes didn’t stop searching for answers. They didn’t believe everything they were told by people in positions of authority, they thought critically, and researched ideas. (e.g. how to make a sensory deprivation tank or reading the library archives of old news articles about experiments conducted at the local science facility). We need to do the same thing and not just take things at face value and not believe everything we read or hear.
- Show where the 24/7 chat button is on the library website. Explain that we can help with citation format and search terms when you can’t find what you’re looking for. Mention where the reference desk is located.