Resources for Introducing Students to Library - Freshman Year Experience | UNIV 150, Papers of Education Planning And Management

Download Resources for Introducing Students to Library - Freshman Year Experience | UNIV 150 and more Papers Education Planning And Management in PDF only on Docsity! Resources for ENGL 111 and UNIV 150 Instructors Resources for introducing students to the Library Library Tours During the first few weeks of each semester, the Library offers tours of its facilities. A tour takes approximately 30 minutes. Students get a certificate of attendance that instructors could count toward extra credit points. Check the Instruction page for schedule (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/index.html) Active Learning, Small Group Exercise on Library Services and Locations (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/courses/locations.htm) Give each student a slip of paper/card with the name of a library service point or collection location written on it. Ask each student to visit her/his place in or outside of class time and answer some questions about it. When students are next in class, have them get together in small groups, with everyone who visited the same location in one group. Members of the small groups share their answers with each other and decide what to tell the entire class about their location. Each group presents its location to the class, which is thereby introduced to a variety of places without needing to visit them all. An added benefit of this activity is that students often listen to their peers more closely than to their instructors. They are also more likely to remember information that they themselves presented - so each student should know one location, at least, quite well. Critical Thinking about Library Resources and Services Have students read A Student’s Guide to Evaluating Libraries in Colleges and Universities, (http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/marketingyourlib/studentsguide.htm) a two page document designed to help parents and students in selecting a college. It has specific questions about library facilities, resources, and services. Students can be assigned to answer one of the three sets of questions in the document, or a couple of questions from each set, about NMSU Library. One nice thing about this activity is that it gets students to realize that the Library is there to serve them and should be accountable to them. Crossword Puzzle on Library Lingo The clues and answers in this crossword puzzle (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/courses/crossword.htm) all relate to library terms with which students are often unfamiliar but which they will need to learn if they are to navigate successfully in university libraries. The crossword puzzle comes with a link to an online glossary (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/libterms.htm) of library terms that students can consult. Students generally find this activity fun, and it has been shown to correlate with significant increases in students' knowledge of basic library terms. The You-May-Not-Know-As-Much-As-You-Think-You-Do-About-Libraries Pre-test Giving students this pre-test (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/courses/pretest.htm) with 14 true/false questions is a great way to prepare them for learning about libraries because it demonstrates that many of the things they may think they know about libraries and research are, in fact, untrue. The pre-test is accompanied by a Web-based PowerPoint presentation explaining the correct answers (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/courses/testanswers_files/frame.htm). You can either go through this presentation with students in class or refer them to it on their own time. Reading Library of Congress Call Numbers Using Call Numbers (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/lsc311/02spring2004/callnos.ppt) introduces students to the basics of Library of Congress call numbers. Many students have only used school and public libraries, which generally rely upon Dewey Decimal call numbers. There is also a worksheet (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/courses/callnumber_exercise.htm) that students can do to practice reading call numbers. Materials used in ENGL 111 library instruction sessions Links to copies of the handouts used by librarians in teaching ENGL 111 sessions: Finding Periodicals, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/finding_periodicals.PDF Types of Periodicals, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/types_of_periodicals.PDF Library of Congress Classification, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/LCClassification.PDF Rules of Thumb for Library Research, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/rulesofthumb.PDF Searching Techniques, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/searchtechniques.PDF Session Activity Sheet, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/activitysheet.PDF Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/citations&plagiarism.PDF How to cite information resources found in these sessions? In their writing, students will need to cite the resources they find. You can refer them to the Library's guides to APA and MLA style for help in formatting entries for bibliographies or works cited listings, as well as the following document on Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/citations&plagiarism.PDF). APA Citation Style (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/APAtipsheet.pdf) MLA Citation Style (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/mla.pdf) The Library also offers "drop-in" workshops on APA citation style that anyone can attend. Workshops last 60 minutes, and students get a certificate of attendance that instructors could count toward extra credit points. Check the Instruction page for the workshop schedule (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/index.html) Resources for introducing students to Project 1: Writing in a Major What is a journal? How does information get into journals? Most students are unfamiliar with scholarly journals and the process of scholarly communication. Many students are familiar with popular magazines, and you can begin from there. Bring in copies of magazines and journals and have students examine them to identify their differences, which can be listed on a chalk- or whiteboard for everyone to see. Talk to them about the differences between popular magazines and scholarly journals using a handout (http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/handouts/types_of_periodicals.PDF) that summarizes the differences. NMSU Library contains both "popular" magazines and "scholarly" journals, so you will want to address the difference so that students do not mistake them in doing Project 1.