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2 Library Skills to Succeed in College Nancy Guidry Dawn Dobie Bakersfield College Library

3 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

4 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12 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

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

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

15 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

16 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

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

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

19 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

20 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)

21 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 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 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=121946548http://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.htmlhttp://www.transitioning2college.org/index.html  Assignment Calculator: UCLA Road to Research Tutorial http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/modules/freecalc/index.php 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 http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/within/index.html


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