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- 1. Honors 201, Ways of Knowing Dr. Devon Fisher Spring 2020 JOINING THE SCHOLARLY CONVERSATION, PRESENTED BY DR. FRANK QUINN, DEAN OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SERVICES
- 2. On getting better at something… CC BY 2.0 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113170@N04/14994708911
- 3. On learning How do we learn? Let’s talk about faculty… Public domain
- 4. Welcome to the Information Age… There’s a lot out there – over 6.65 billion web pages Pro tip – the CRAAP test (really a thing) Let’s talk about libraries….
- 5. What do you use a library for? RUDISILL LIBRARY – Brick and Mortar Books – 99,000 volumes Research help – 59 hours / week Hours of operation – 80 hours / week Sound recordings – 2,823 Video recordings – 931 Dissertations and Theses - 537 RUDISILL LIBRARY – Virtual, i.e., Books – 3.5 million volumes Research help – 24/7 Hours of operation – 24/7 Streaming audio – 109,000 recordings Streaming video – 44,000 recordings Dissertations and Theses – 280,000
- 6. Library resources, revisited Summon – …or fishing with a net LibGuides – gateway to the promised land…. http://libguides.lr.edu/rudisilllibrary/home
- 7. Some advanced techniques Boolean operators Searching by Subjects – works best with single databases …with built-in Thesaurus in-citation links to “Subject” or “Descriptor”
- 8. Truncation (or truncat*) – for more results Limit options – for fewer results Big project? Try Summon’s citation manager,
- 9. Evaluation Please complete the online evaluation for this class, located at https://tinyurl.com/200Evaluation Course instructor: Fisher Librarian: Quinn Class name: HON 201 Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- Tell me about your work in this class… still coming up with paper topics or…? Anyone started looking for information yet?
- “iron sharpens iron” – on good competition making us better (athletics, playing a musical instrument, chess, games and gaming…)
- 1. List ways we learn things: parents, friends, social media, tv, internet, books, professors…. 2. You can learn from your professors – classroom, office hours, email… but here’s the cool thing– they talk to each other!!
- From bogus web pages to “firehosing”
- Start with open discussion prior to first table. Note: a total of 630 million full-text items available through Summon Discovery Search
- Summon with demo How do you find a single library database? And why would you do so?