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Library Skills to Succeed in College

Library Skills to Succeed in College. Nancy Guidry Dawn Dobie Bakersfield College Library. Are your students ready for college research?. Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009.

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Library Skills to Succeed in College

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  1. Library Skills to Succeed in College Nancy Guidry Dawn Dobie Bakersfield College Library

  2. Are your students ready for college research? Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009

  3. Percentage of educators reporting that their state’s standards prepare students well or very well for college Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009

  4. Do they have practice forming good research questions? ??? ?? ? • Questions worth investigating • Start with reference reading • Narrow and widen topics • Edit focus as research progresses

  5. Are they familiar with a wide spectrum of sources? Subject encyclopedias Scholarly books Periodicals Web Sites Others

  6. Do they know about periodicals? Vocabulary Journal Magazine Newspaper Peer-Reviewed Purposes Audiences

  7. Do they have experience with online databases? How they work What they are How to access How to search

  8. For those databases, can they create good search statements? Keyword searching Subject searching Boolean operators Limiters

  9. Do they know that Web ≠ Google? Visible Web—Only 1%! Invisible Web Databases Search directories Other strategies

  10. Are they practiced at evaluating online sources? Thorough web evaluation skills essential Six important questions Using the BEST!

  11. Do they know the world of citations? Not the parking kind Build citations for variety of sources in correct format Be comfortable with array of in-text citation forms

  12. What do your students know about plagiarism? Understand what it is Know how to avoid it Be proficient at Summarizing Paraphrasing Quoting

  13. Do your students use the library catalog? Navigating a search Comparing Library of Congress to Dewey Decimal

  14. How can these skill areas be strengthened? • Working with Teacher Librarians • Subject Specialist + Research Specialist = TEAM • Learning in context • Variety of research queries • Variety of project formats

  15. Do your students see the library as a resource for more than books? Other services frequently offered Online subscriptions for periodicals and ebooks Study space

  16. Encourage your students to widen their research knowledge Online tutorials Library workshops Other academic workshops

  17. Reference librarians love to help Save time Direct to resources Help via many channels

  18. Things they should carry • ID card • Cash • Knowledge of computer sign-on • How to access school email • Knowledge of remote access procedures • Databases, ebooks • Online labs • Writing implements

  19. Internet resource list available • Transitioning to College: Helping You Succeed (Kent State) • Assignment Calculator (UCLA) • Citing Sources within Your Paper (Duke)

  20. Websites Mentioned Articles and reports cited (in order of mention in presentation) • Scribner, Sara. “Saving the Google Students.” Los Angeles Times 21 March 2010. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scribner21-2010mar21,0,764753.story • Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009 ACT http://www.act.org/research/curricsurvey.html • “The Web That’s Hidden from You” Weekend Edition Sunday. National Public Radio. 27 Dec 2009 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121946548 Other online resources • Transitioning to College: Joint project between Kent State University, academic, and high school librarians in Ohio http://www.transitioning2college.org/index.html • Assignment Calculator: UCLA Road to Research Tutorial http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/modules/freecalc/index.php • Citing Sources within Your Paper: Duke Libraries Reference & Research http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/within/index.html

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