18
1 Undergraduate Women’s Studies Course: Planning and delivering a library instruction session Elisheba Muturi April 15 2008

Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

 

Citation preview

Page 1: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

1

Undergraduate Women’s Studies Course:

Planning and delivering a library instruction session

Elisheba Muturi

April 15 2008

Page 2: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

2

Planning the instruction session• Communicate with the course instructor• Analyze assignment• Determine students’ information literacy level• Set session learning objectives based on course

and assignment objectives as well as ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards

• Identify appropriate resources• Create a lesson plan outline

Page 3: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

3

Planning the instruction session

• Provide handouts listing search strategy examples and summarizing resources

• Ensure follow-up eg. Close to the assignment deadline, set up a clinic in the lab on a few sessions where students who need help with searching and locating resources can come for assistance on a drop-in basis

Page 4: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

4

Learning objectives• Use the UBC subject guides as a starting point 2.3.b• For historical information, recognize the information gaps

and limitations of using Google as a starting point 2.3.b• Distinguish primary from secondary resources1.2.e• Understand the use of the catalogue to locate a variety

of resources and formats 2.2.e• Understand the role of indexes in finding information –

identify appropriate ones 2.3.b• Formulate a search strategy using relevant search terms

– controlled vocabulary and key words, using boolean logic and basic truncation 2.2.b, 2.2.c, 2.2.d

• Effectively search appropriate internet sources for experiences 2.3.b

Page 5: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

5

Sources• Subject page

• Background and overview

• Primary sources

• Databases:– Sociological perspective: sociological

abstracts– Gender: contemporary women’s issues– Psychology: Psychological abstracts

• Websites: Intute

• Search engines: Google, Technorati

Page 6: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

6

Search terms: key words and controlled vocabulary

• Subject headings• Key words

•immigrant women and (experience* or represent* or construct* or identit*) •women immigrant* and canad* •immigr* and women and employ* and canad* •chinese and immigr* and women and canad* •filipin* and immigr* and women and canad*

•Women immigrants – geographical place – aspect – publication type (biography or bibliography)•Women immigrants--Canada--Social conditions, •Women immigrants--Asia--Economic conditions. •Women immigrants--British Columbia—Biography •Women immigrants--Bibliography.

•Emigration and immigration•Chinese Canadian women•Filipino Canadian women

Page 7: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

7

Background/Overview sources• Catalogue keyword search for: women

AND (encyclopedia OR handbook? Dictionar? OR almanac?)

• Subject heading: Women's studies--Encyclopedias.

• Examples:– Encyclopedia of Women’s Studies HQ 115

E52 2001 – Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World

History (Online) – search for immigrant – overview article on immigrant labour

Page 8: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

8

Primary Sources

Catalogue: (diar? letter? autobio? correspondence? oral? Interview? experience? personal narrative?) AND (immigr? migr?) AND (wom?n)

Database:• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and

Oral Histories: Organized by – Nationality– Subjects eg. Women in workforce

Page 9: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

9

Database search strategyConcept# Synonyms

Experience* Represent* Perspective Identit* Construct*

immigrant Immigra* Migrant* emmigrat*

Refugee or asylum seeker

Aspect Economical (labour or work*)

Cultural Social Political

Geographical Country or province

#The concept of women is redundant in women’s studies databases

Some databases allow automatic stemming in the place of truncation

Page 10: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

10

Studies on Women and Gender abstracts

( immigrant+ OR refugee+ ) AND ( experience+ OR perspective+ OR representation+ OR construction+ OR identity+ ) – retrieves 42

Automatically searches for variants (hence no need to truncate) when “stemming” is selected

Page 11: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

11

Women’s studies international

( immigrant OR refugee ) AND ( experience OR perspective OR representation OR construction OR identity)  - 2899 (key words - too many hits)TX ( Immigrant experience OR Immigrant women's attitudes ) and TX ( Migrant women OR refugee women )  - 29 (descriptors – manageable recall)

Page 12: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

12

Contemporary Women’s Issues

1) Immigrant* AND experience (keywords alone with no limits) - 1346

2) experience* OR perspective OR represent* OR construct* OR identit* (keywords)

immigrants and refugees AND images of women (subject areas) – 19

Additional limits - country

Page 13: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

13

Sociological abstracts

DE=(wom*n or females) and DE=(immigr* or refugee or migrant*) and AB=(experience* or perspective* or (identit* or represent* or construct*)) and DE=(work* or lab*r or employ*) and (filipina or philipines) – 62

For sociological perspective, it’s useful to add a topic (eg. Work) and geographical perspective

Page 14: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

14

Psychinfo

SU ( experiences OR events ) and SU females and SU ( immigration OR refugees OR migrants ) subject headings only to manage recall - 46

Page 15: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

15

Internet Sources: Intute

Page 16: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

16

Google

Basic search – immigrant women experiences – 525 000

Smarter search ~women ~immigr ~experience OR ~represent OR ~identity OR ~construction, limit to .edu domain: 59 600

Google Scholar search – 1740

To search for primary documents - "primary documents" women immigrants

Page 17: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

17

Blogs• Blogs are today’s online diaries and can be

useful for locating narratives• Blog search engine: Technorati – locates good

blogs on immigrants in general not immigrant women eg immigration watchdog, A Canada Immigrant’s Blog

• Very basic search strategy: ~women ~immigrant• Would women immigrants typically share their

stories through blogs?

Page 18: Planning Women Studies Library Instruction

18

Lesson plan elements

• Intro

• Bridge-in (from the known to the unknown)

• Objectives

• Pretest

• Participatory and active learning activities

• Post-test