T.A. Day – 2016 Ian Gordon & Evelyn Smith

This Session will …

1. Familiarize you with our …ResourcesCollectionsPeopleServicesSpaces2. Give you an opportunity to …Work through scenarios, ask questions and provide feedback.

The Website

Resources SuperSearch

Excellent starting point24/7There is a peer review / scholarly limit – quality controlWide variety of topicsFiltering by specific subjectsCiting the article for me!

Resources Databases

Wonderful!News!!“More Information”Subject specificVideos! Criterion on demand, sorry Netflix

Resources for Known Item Searching

Catalogue

List from your bibliographyKey books

A-Z List of Journals

Key journals

Resources from Other Universities

RACER

Thesis – for rarer items

Give yourself a bit of time with RACER if you are requesting a book.

Borrow books from us – return to any academic library in Ontario (except u of t)

Unique Collections & ServicesSpecial Collections and

Archives

Unique Collections & ServicesMaps, Data & GIS Library

Time Travelling?

Our People

• Your Liaison Librarians

• Reference Assistants @ the Ask Us Desk

• Peer Assistants – students helping students

Our Services• The Ask Us Desk– Borrowing, help with printing & scanning, research help, interlibrary loan, inter-campus transfers

• Graduate Student Lockers – Pick up an application form at the Ask Us Desk

Floor 6 – South Side

Our Services• The Makerspace– We provide the tools, you create the magic

• Copying & Printing Services– Includes Large Format Poster Printing

Our SpacesProviding with you with options …social space, group learning,quiet study, silent study

Getting Help: D.I.Y.Research Guides by Program …– Economics

… and for “how-to”– How to Create a Research Poster– Style Guides

Research on Demand videos on

The Help Tab

Getting Help: More Support

Book a Research Consultation with your librarian

Help via online chat

On your desktop, tablet or mobile phone

Shared service with 14 Ontario Universities

Referring Your Students - Scenarios

Sources for Scholarly Articles

My essay topic is how Intentional Behavior Therapy can benefit children with autism. Where can I get peer-reviewed articles?

Sources for Scholarly Articles

Don’t just google things – it may not be scholarlyDatabases SuperSearch – you can be specificBook an appointmentChat with a LibrarianRACER if needed

Sources for News

Sources for News:Your student has tried everything to find information about the Walkerton water crisis. It made a lot of news headlines back in the 1990’s. How do you refer?

Sources for News

News databasesSupersearch and don’t click on scholarlyJournals? Date limits on supersearch

Videos!

Government document?

Archives?

Help with Essay Style

I’ve never used A.P.A. style for an essay. In high school I used M.L.A. Do you know where I can get help? I don’t have time to take a workshop.

Help with Essay Style

APA Guide – from the help pageDrop in help – from A-Z learning services – they meet in the Library/Learning Commons

Cite using SuperSearch add in

Link on homepage!

Questions, Comments, Feedback

RACER – YES!

Helpful session, movies!

Online theses

I’d like to know more about citation tools!

Plagiarism-

Get in Touch! libhelp@brocku.ca

http://bit.ly/ResearchConsultation

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