Library Resourcesin Your Classroom

Summer Instructional Technology Institute 2012

Olga Hart olga.hart@uc.edu

“Small obstacles can lead directly to a failed search, negatively affecting students’ learning outcomes .” Asher, Andrew, et al. The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project: Reference Service Implications for Illinois Wesleyan University. RUSA Annual Reference Research Forum, ALA Annual 2010 June 27, 2010, Washington, D.C.

In Today’s Session:

Helping our students to overcome the obstacles by learning:•What is available to them at the University of Cincinnati Libraries.•What problems students encounter.•How to add links to library tools, resources, and services to your Blackboard courses (or embed them into course content).•What kind of assistance is available to you and your students.

Getting a refresher on library resources and research assistance options.

Do Your Courses Require Use of Information in Addition to Course Materials?

Yes

I provide citations for required/suggested

materials

Students need to search for information

No

Help your students by:

Making direct links to the books, articles, etc.Pointing them to library support.

Directing them to search tools.Pointing them to tutorials and guides.Pointing them to library support.

You can still remind your students that librariesexist!

What is Available to the Students?The Sky is the Limit

Obstacle #1:Discovering Libraries Online

Obstacle #2:Off-Campus Access

Helping Students with Off-Campus Access

• Tutorial: link to it or embed it• Add a proxy server prefix to the URLs to the links

from your coursehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOCj1Q8D_3w

Obstacle #3:Google Addiction

Like Google, Only Better:Meet Summon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JwgNwnI6DU

Helping the Students: A Very Simple Solution

Helping the Students:A Blackboard Solution

Obstacle #4:Poor Understanding of Citations

Stack, S. (2003). Research Productivity and Student Evaluation of Teaching in Social Science Classes: A Research Note. Research In Higher Education, 44(5), 539.

You want students to be able to locate the article described by the citation.

You want students to access the article quickly.

Point them to the Journals search page and provide necessary tips.Point them to library tutorials on finding articles.

Add a permanent link to the article to your Blackboard course.

Helping Students to Access a Cited Source

Obstacle #4:Finding Quality Images and Citing

Them

Solution: Media CampusGuide http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/media

Research Assistancehttp://www.libraries.uc.edu/help/