— Lobby —
Welcome Message

• Orient students to the features of the Library building
• Describe collections
• Familiarize you with policies and practices
• Provide basic instruction for operating effectively in the library
• Reinforce notion that we're here to help -- Reference

Point out features/services visible from meeting site

— BI Room —
Connections as a Theme
To The Library, to Other Libraries, and to the Internet

Go to College Home Page/Resources/Academic Resources/Schaffer Library Home Page

Connections among libraries

• ILL
• DAP
• Hours and Directions

Home

— Communicating Change —

New Databases

Indicate variety of online databases

Mention trend toward full-text

Home

— Instruction —
The WebCat and Electronic Databases

Point out various search options -- Author, Title, Subject

Search by Subject:

morrison, ton(i)........... (can shorten names where you're uncertain of spelling)

Link to Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation

Describe Call Numbers and Circulation status variations

Indicate (hold up) a copy of the Floor Directory

Link to full record of most recently published book

What else is the book about? How many books under

Afro-American women in literature?

Keeping track of subject terms used--related-term searching can get one lost!

Search by Keyword:

Bible and science

Revise search strategy to show Boolean potential

(Bible or religion) and science

Go to a new window and open the Periodical Title List for a periodical search

e.g., american quarterly

In what format would you find an issue from 1960? from 1997?

[Hint to instructors: Open a window with this list before class, so you can easily "window" to it later with, e.g., the Proquest search below]

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Databases and Electronic Journals

ProQuest Direct:

• Choose the ProQuest PA-II Peer Reviewed Files option ("All databases"
  is the default but yields a lot of newspaper articles in response to search requests. )

• Search for any single topic (suggestions--toxic waste, NAFTA, Shakespeare, independent prosecutor, etc.)

• Search for a topic with the Boolean AND (toxic waste AND politics; NAFTA AND environment; Shakespeare AND war; sports AND salaries

• Indicate the full-text icons, limiting to full-text, and using the backfiles

• Describe the printing, downloading, e-mailing options

• How to tell if in Schaffer Library (the minimized window with the

Periodical Title List)

— Critical Thinking —
Appropriate Role of Internet Resources in an Academic Research Project

But we also use it to get at other scholarship. And resource pages like the Freshman

Preceptorial Website can help.

• Point out features of the Ibsen in Context site (or pick any other writer's page from the FP Website)

• Connect to an Internet Resource under Ibsen or any other writer's page

(The Ibsen Centre page, 1st one listed, is workable)

• Rate the Website -- use Website Rating Criteria handout-- perhaps one

criterion per row with students reporting back.

• For example:If connected to The Ibsen Centre's page, address the issue of

authority, i.e., where and what is the Ibsen Centre?

• Hint: Back up to http://www.hf.uio.no/ibsensenteret

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— Orientation —

• Circulation/Reserve
• Current Reading Area / Internet Guides
• Public Access Workstations
• Reference Desk/Reference Collection
• M/Forms Area
• Photocopier, Printing/Scanning Workstation, Laser Printing Workstation
• Current Periodicals Reading Room/Newspaper Area

Second Floor -- describe , walk past as time permits

• Writing Center
• Language Lab
• Instructional Technology
• Group Study Space
• Circulating Collection

Third Floor -- describe from 2nd Floor Atrium Bridge:

• Special Collections
• Study Space

Basement -- describe, walk past as time permits

• Periodicals -- compact shelving
• Government Documents
• CDs
• Copiers
• Circulating Collection
• Group Study Space