Ladies and Gentlemen, for your consideration: the “Untour”…

Ladies and Gentlemen, for your consideration: the

“Untour”…

LOEX of the WestUniversity Of Nevada

Las Vegas June 5, 2008

By Janice Mutz, Instruction/Distance Education Librarian, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario

CANADA

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!

• Location:Paterson North (NSRC - 5th Fl.) Call Number:FC 3213.1 S53R33 2007

• Location:Paterson Books - 3rd Floor Call Number:E 78 C2I387 2006

• Location:Paterson Storage (Ground Fl.) non-circ .Call Number:TN 27 O5 1912, v.21, pt. 2, p. 3 – 18

• Location:Paterson Gov. Pubs. CODOC (Ground Fl.)Call Number:CA2ON NR 99O52

• Location:Paterson Microfiche (Main Fl.) non-circ. Call Number:MFICHE MB 130 no. 25956

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What we do to help: tours,open houses, orientation booth, etc… …sometimes with our fun mascot (thanks

Wolfie!)

The Amazing Race: Library edition!

Destination: Stacks! The teams!

The difficult roadblocks!

The triumph!The winners!

The fabulous prizes!

What is a scholarly journal?

What the groups figure out on their own:

• Peer-review• References• Abstracts

What is a reference book?

What the groups come up with:

• Shortcut!• Great place to start• Scholarly references

listed

What is a thesis?

What they figure out:

• A really looooong paper!

• Shortcut (again!)• Useful references

TRADITIONAL TOUR VS. “UNTOUR”:

• PASSIVE• LECTURE STYLE• LIBRARIAN

TEACHING

• ACTIVE• SMALL GROUP WORK• PEER-TO-PEER

TEACHING

Contact me for more info on the “Untour”…Where is Lakehead U/Thunder Bay, Ontario anyway?

Kakabeka Falls • North of Minneapolis, MN• North of Duluth, MN• North of Lake Superior• Well, just NORTH!

Janice Mutz, Instruction/Distance Education Librarian, Lakehead University

[email protected]

Image credits• “William and the Books”www.flickr.com/photos/51035555243@N01/457689943• “Park Ranger‘” www.flickr.com/photos/48355243@N00/1274922784

• “Which way do you want me to go?”http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275313@N00/327767127

• Tour de France www.flickr.com/photos/58934987@N00/756793192

• “a simpler map”www.flickr.com/photos/20095166@N00/374586852• “Signage in the GSU

library”www.flickr.com/photos/78199693@N00/472518263• “Seattle PL sign” www.flickr.com/photos/45131388@N00/246133138

• “Rainbow”www.flickr.com/photos/63969483@N00/844363451

• “PHD”www.flickr.com/photos/35034353562@N01/372415952

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Ladies and Gentlemen, for your consideration: the “Untour”…