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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Websites Mentioned Articles and reports cited (in order of mention in presentation)  Scribner, Sara. “Saving the Google Students.” Los Angeles Times 21 March mar21,0, story mar21,0, story  Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009 ACT  “The Web That’s Hidden from You” Weekend Edition Sunday. National Public Radio. 27 Dec Other online resources  Transitioning to College: Joint project between Kent State University, academic, and high school librarians in Ohio  Assignment Calculator: UCLA Road to Research Tutorial  Citing Sources within Your Paper: Duke Libraries Reference & Research