The document provides instructions for students to learn about library services through group activities. Group 1 is asked to explain how to connect from off campus, Group 2 must explain how to renew a book online, and Group 3 must explain how to contact a subject librarian. Another section provides tips for successful online reference help, such as isolating the research question and stating questions clearly. Students are instructed to find and analyze an image, including determining its copyright status and how to properly cite it. Finally, differences between the library catalog and FindIt search tools are outlined.

2. Activity:
Locating Library Services
Before you start your research, it’s good to know your way
around our new library website.
In groups find and prepare to explain:
Group 1: How do you connect from off campus?
Group 2: How do you renew a book online?
Group 3: How can you talk to a subject librarian?
take 5 minutes

3.  Talk to a real
person

4. Tips for Successful
Online Reference Help
Remember: not everyone has free access to a research expert.
Librarians staff the chat desk between 10 AM and 12 Midnight Sunday-
Thurs
Here’s how to get the most out of chatting with a librarian:
 Isolate the part of your assignment that is research oriented
 Concisely tell the librarian why you need information
 State your questions clearly
 Be patient
 It’s ok to ask more than one question!

5. There’s a Guide for That

6. “…the relationship between knowledge,
power and authority”
Image: Christopher Dombres [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

7. Activity: Image Citation
In your groups or on your
own…
 Locate the image at left
Be ready to answer:
• What level of copyright is
this image protected
under?
• How do you cite it
appropriately to avoid
plagiarism?
• Can you remix this image?
How?
take 5 minutes

8. “Today’s citizens are expected to attend social
processes anytime and anywhere. Thus, they are
required to have mastery in new literacies which
allow them to use all kinds of emerging
technologies to share their views and make their
voices heard."
 Q1: What kind of information overload is “too much” when
you are researching?
 Q2: What can you do to find what you need, without limiting
your learning?
 Eylem, S., & Ali, S. (2013). New Literacies for Digital Citizenship. Contemporary
Educational Technology, 4(2), 126.

9. FindIt! at USF vs. the Catalog
FindIt!
 A federated search engine
 Retrieves all formats of
data
 Indexes most, but not ALL,
library databases
Best for: finding articles
The Catalog
 A library created electronic
record of everything in our
holdings
 Offers subject headings to
search under
Best for: finding books

10. Search Plan: Hamlet’s Blackberry

11. Activity: Searching
in Findit!
In your groups:
Navigate to the library homepage
and follow the search plan
challenge
• Record how many results you
find
• Write down the citation in
MLA

12. Questions?