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Introduction to the Walden Library

Introduction to the Walden Library. Your hosts Michelle Hajder Sommer Berg QUESTIONS? Please use the chat area at the top right of the screen to enter your question We will have time for Q&A at the end of the session. This presentation will use browser sharing

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Introduction to the Walden Library

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  1. Introduction to the Walden Library

  2. Your hosts • Michelle Hajder • Sommer Berg QUESTIONS? Please use the chat area at the top right of the screen to enter your question We will have time for Q&A at the end of the session

  3. This presentation will use browser sharing • When sharing is enabled, this PowerPoint will be replaced with a view of my web browser • You will be able to watch me click, search, use the databases, etc. • You will not be able to interact with the browser • Go To Meeting menu buttons will remain at the top right of the page

  4. Our agenda today: • Walden library services and information • Tour the Library • Library Databases • Finding full text in the databases • Scholarly Sources • Identifying Peer-Reviewed Sources • Evaluating internet sources • Questions

  5. A Digital Library? • Over 56,000 e-journals • Over 90,000 e-books • Thousands of dissertations, reports, conference papers, trade publications and more • …Millions of full-text documents!

  6. Let’s take a look around the library… Library Access: you can get everything at: http://library.waldenu.edu/ • Can bookmark library home page • Not required to go through myWalden portal • Some library links will prompt you to log in; use your myWalden email address and password.

  7. Library Tour Demonstration

  8. Choosing Library Resources Library Catalog vs. Library Databases • Catalog for Book and Journal Titles • Databases for individual articles and book chapters on a topic

  9. Searching the Databases • Keywords • How does obesity impact type 2 diabetes? • Boolean Operators • AND • Obesity AND type 2 diabetes

  10. Article Search Demonstration

  11. Why the Library? • The Walden Library can offer you access to scholarly, peer-reviewed content that you would not be able to access elsewhere • Concerning scholarly information resources online …

  12. Scholarly vs. Popular Scholarly Popular Journal of Diabetes Nursing http://www.thejournalofdiabetesnursing.co.uk/ Six Until Me – diabetes blog http://www.sixuntilme.com/ Diabetes: A Journal of the American Diabetes Association http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/ About.com Diabetes info http://diabetes.about.com/

  13. What is a peer-reviewed source? • Any source that undergoes a specific process of being reviewed by an editorial board of experts in the field before the source is accepted for publication • Often refers to peer-reviewed journals • Publications disclose their editorial process

  14. CARS Checklist • Credibility • Accuracy • Reasonableness • Support http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

  15. Summation: • The library web site is the gateway to library collections and services • Lost in the library? ASK-A-LIBRARIAN • Library databases house our online resources: e-journals, e-books, and more • Evaluate resources for scholarly content • be aware of peer-reviewed resources • Use the CARS checklist

  16. Questions?

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