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↗ University Libraries How can we help with your students?
http://www.lib.vt.edu/
↗ Help For Your Teaching Role…….
Tours Type 1. iPad Tours
• Any time library is open
• can use their smart phones or check out an iPad from the circulation desk
• QR Code Stations (14)
Type 2. Library Guide Tour and Quiz (use request form again) Type 3. Self Guided tour – green handout by doors and elevators (no quiz) Results of tour quiz – grade automatically sent to instructor and stored in library database
How to register for a class library session
http://www.lib.vt.edu/forms/reserve.html
• Register for a tour and introduction to Addison (library catalog)
• Register for research/instruction lesson
• Contact college librarian for details
Placing items on reserve
• Reserves coordinator, Mary K. Sullivan: [email protected]
• Need to complete Reserve Request Form – each semester
• Different loan periods
Using library resources in Scholar
• Link to “Ask a Librarian”
• Consider embedding a librarian in your course • Contact the subject librarian
• Rather than post the article – link to it • Use the persistent URL • Use the proxy • http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/persistentlinks.html
Tips on creating a research assignment
Make sure the library has the resources first
Define manageable learning objectives (see form)
Don’t bring your class in without a subject to research • Context is what gets them to listen • Don’t learn in a vacuum - learn what you need to learn
When in doubt plan/collaborate with a librarian prior to session
Tips on creating a research assignment
Information for Graduate Students
http://www.lib.vt.edu/info/grad.html
Brainstorming
Brainstorming EX. Brainstorming for Wild Horse Population Studies
Library Research Modules
Tiny Urls: Module 1: Information Sourceshttp://tinyurl.com/vtinfosources Module 2: Searching for Information http://tinyurl.com/vtinfosearch Module 3: Information Evaluation http://tinyurl.com/vtinfoeval
↗ Students and research How can we help with your students?
The Beloit College Mindset List Class of 2016 and their professors
• Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1994
• Most professors were born before 1981
• So what has shaped their world…..
News
Your Professor Your Student
The Amazon
Your Professor Your Students
Tailgating
Your Professor Your Students
Music Delivery
Your Professor
Your Students
What does this mean for your student?
• Used to things being available on demand
• Immediate Access is expected – by cell phone, IM, Facebook
• Have watched news as it happened – War in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, Earthquake in Haiti, Oil in the Gulf
• Independent but group-oriented
• Comfortable getting video, audio online
Mobile
m.lib.vt.edu
What should your students know?
Newman Library Navigation
Brainstorming and Narrowing down a topic concepts
Getting help
Resources/Tools – Summon, E-books, Academic Search Complete, Opposing Viewpoints, Factiva or LexisNexis, World Book, Addison
Newman Library 24/5 building hours
Book retrieval
• only Newman items
Wireless printing • printers on 1,2 and 4
Access Services http://www.lib.vt.edu/circ-reserve/access-services-links.pdf
Writing Center http://www.lib.vt.edu/about/writing/
Getting Help
Library Home Page – Gateway to Library Resources
Summon
Addison
General Resources