1. Information Literacy
For Your
College Experience, OR
HOW TO THINK LIKE A
LIBRARIAN
Bl101: Old Testament Survey
April Lindsey & James Stewart
August 24, 2015
2. Your Librarians
April Lindsey,
Director of Library Services
James Stewart,
Senior Library Consultant
• James Stewart is the new senior
library consultant for Temple Library at
Laurel University. He earned his
bachelor’s degree in visual design from
North Carolina A&T State University
and a master’s degree in library and
information studies from The
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. He enjoys helping
learners find and develop resources
for creative media and research
projects.
• April Lindsey is the Director of Library
Services. She is a graduate of Asbury
College (now University) with a B.A. in
Social Work and an M.L.S. from the
University of North Carolina in
Greensboro. She has been the Library
Director since 1985. She enjoys
developing the library collection and
finding new ways to help the students
develop lifelong learning skills.
3. Welcome to Temple Library
• Kenneth & Geneva
Temple.
• Member of the Carolinas
Theological Library
Consortium
• 37,000 volumes
• Computer lab w/printer
• Media collection
4. To be able to search for, identify and use creditable
information sources from a variety of internet search
engines and from Temple Library’s physical and online
resources.
To create finding aids and bibliographies from online
reference tools.
To think like a librarian !!!!
Our Objectives
7. A library is a collection of sources of
information and similar resources, made
accessible to a defined community for
reference or borrowing. - Merriam –Webster
Temple Library is a theological library.
On this slide we ask the students “What is a library” to pre-assess their understanding of the broadness of services and resources we can provide them. The image may implies to them the traditional definition of “a place to check out books”. As students give responses we welcome them and egg on more students to reply, getting them closer to the ultimate definition “ The image is from the Stockholm Public Library.
Emphasize, that a library is a “collection of SOURCES of information and similar resources”
During this slide we would ask the students about their familiarity with listed resources. “What information sources have you used for research?” or “What to you use to gain information”? As answers are given we would then type them on the screen. Very interactive.
This is a list of all information sources available in Temple Library. We ask the students which ones do they feel are the hardest or least familiar and which are the most comfortable and familiar and circle these items (maybe yellow for familiar, red for unfamiliar)
The students are probably more familiar with the Dewey Decimal Classification which is numerical but….in an academic college……..
The academic colleges are more likely to use the Library of Congress classification which are alphabetical.
Briefly mention that the Library of Congress is the world’s largest library and just for fun is also home to copy of the Gutenberg Bible. Make Jokes about the “BS” terminology.
Here we would use the link to Laurel University to demonstrate how students would access the library resources from any place within Laurel’s website. For Bible, Christian Ministry and Theology students, explain that non-religious sources can be used for cross-referencing important theological and ministerial issues (the role of religion in public policy)
