Csi - Library instruction

Students greet each other Students chatter softly about doing web research for class. Alright it’s about time for us to go ahead and start. So…how many of you have used the library before? Eager Student: I have Great. So most of what I’m going to tell you, you already know. And I know that you think most libraries are boring and never checked out a book before. But at least this will show you how to find stuff for this project So if I’m on the libraries’ website and…I wanna check out/find books, I can go ahead, here….find library catalog And I always go to this advanced keyword page…it just makes things easier. And…if I want to find books on globalization I can just pop the word globalization into this box here. Globalization… And click search… So I get like twelve-hundred results back…and you can get a lot less by doing this: If you go ahead and click…UM….this button here…and I’m gonna go ahead and look at international cooperation. (mumbles) It’s a Library of Congress subject heading so it will bring back less results I guess I’ll do international cooperation and I get a lot less results, you’ll see… And…I’m going to look at number ten which is an e-book. So….If I click here I’m brought into this place… Huh…That didn’t work… Let’s try it again…Okay I’m going to click here… That’s still not working. Nevermind. Um…so once you’ve found a real book that you like…let’s go back and look at the real books…say, this one, you go ahead and find the call number. Does anyone know what a call number is? Eager Student: Um the call number is where the book is in the library. Librarian: Good, good. So once you have the call number you can look at the stacks guide and figure out where you’re supposed to go. Where are the stacks guides at? You probably all know this… Anyone? Well…it’s by the elevators and the reference desk. So that’s how you find books…let’s talk about articles. You do that through here…Oh! Hey, here’s a handout…. Slacker Student: This is where the library session is, right? Librarian: Yes this is where the library session is, you’re in the right place. Librarian: So…we were looking at how to find books. And so if you’re on the libraries’ home page you can click here and go in here and just search in these boxes and that’s how you’ll find books in the library, okay? Librarian: So I think that catches you up….so we’re moving on...and what were we going to do? Oh, we were going to look for articles… If you’re looking for articles on globalization, you’ll probably only need two databases. Academic Search Premier and Extended Academic…those are multidisciplinary databases and they’ll help you out a lot on this one I think… Um, and they contain both popular and scholarly articles. So…can someone give me an example of a popular magazine? Eager Student: Oh, yeah. Probably like People Magazine and, um, Time, Newsweek. Librarian: Anyone else want to take a chance on it? To Regular student: How about you? You haven’t been paying any attention. How about you give me an example of a scholarly publication. Regular Student: Scholarly? Librarian: Scholarly publication. Regular Student: Um…New Yorker? Librarian: No. That’s wrong. Anyone else? Eager Student: Um, the journal of the American Medical Association? Yeah, and I knew that because last year, in high school, I did this paper about, um, this really weird disease that my cousin’s girlfriend got and it’s this disease that you can only get if you go to Papua New Guinea. Eager Student Continues: Yeah like the doctors kept telling him it’s only from people who are from Papua New Guinea. Anyway, so…could you tell me where that journal is? Librarian: That’s not really relevant to what we’re talking about here, does anyone else have any questions? Regular Student: Can you get to this stuff from home? Librarian: Yep, it’s all online. So….if you want to go ahead and click into Academic Search Premier… I know you think librarians are all really boring and everything, but I’m going to search for legalization of Marijuana and to do that I just need to put in some keywords… And once you’re in here you have some keywords to use and just put them in the boxes… I’m going to go ahead and limit to scholarly journals by clicking this box here… And…what are my search terms going to be? I’m sure there someplace in here… Slacker Student: Um, miss? Librarian: yeah? Slacker: Um, how did you get here again? Librarian: {sigh of frustration} You’re on the libraries home page, then you click databases, then you click Academic Search Premier, and you should be on this page with boxes, are you there? Slacker: Okay…wait, I’m at this library web page, with the picture of the girl on it? Librarian: Why don’t you just follow along at this point, you’ll catch up later. So once you have your key words, you go ahead and put them in here. Let’s do legalization of marihuana and let’s put medical in the second box. And we only want scholarly articles for this paper, so we want to click this box here and click search. Hmm…that was not what was supposed to happen… Let’s go back and click search again. That’s not what happened when I did it before. Um, let’s see…sometimes databases are broken and you just have to back and do a Google search to work….So let’s go back and back… I'm going to click Academic Search Premiere again... So if I click here, then I click here, I’ll get right to the article… So here’s the article, it just took a couple more steps to get to it, it’s really easy and it makes a lot more sense, I think, as you keep doing it… So are there any other questions at this point? Regular Student: Um, I was taking notes and I was going to e-mail them because we have this paper to do and I wanted to just make sure I had everything written down and stuff and then she just totally called me out like I wasn’t paying attention or something and I wasn’t doing anything wrong. It just made me so mad I didn’t want to have anything to do with that class after that. It’s not like I wanted to, like my teacher made me come. Eager Student: There was a lot more I was expecting out of this class. . Like, first of all I really wanted know where the Journal of The American Medical Association was and she didn’t answer that question even though I asked her, probably twice. And then I just think she wasn’t really well-prepared for that class. So, um, yeah I think I could have done a better job. Slacker Student: {listening to music ,not paying attention} What? Are you kidding me man? I came to this class, like, two minutes late. Who cares? And then she totally singles me out. She’s like telling me about all this stuff they already talked about, I don’t know how they got through all that crazy stuff in like two minutes. I’m just trying to get in and get by. You know, I had been chatting with my friends a little bit and then I realized that I need to find an article for this paper I’m doing. When I asked her if she could help me catch up, she just told me to follow along which isn’t going to help me at all, especially if I have to find it on my own. You know, I’m not very good at the web stuff, at least the research stuff anyway. I mean, I can download stuff like you cannot believe, but anyway I don’t know. I didn’t have a very good time in that class. I didn’t really learn much, because after that I was like screw it, who cares? You know? That’s pretty much it.