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Library Skills to Succeed in College
Nancy GuidryDawn Dobie
Bakersfield College Library
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Are your students ready for college
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Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009
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Percentage of educators reporting that their state’s standards prepare
students well or very well for college
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Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009
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Do they have practice forming
good research questions?
Questions worth investigating
Start with reference reading
Narrow and widen topics
Edit focus as research
progresses
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Are they familiar with a wide spectrum of
sources?
Subject encyclopedias
Scholarly books
Periodicals
Web Sites
Others
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Do they know about periodicals?
VocabularyJournalMagazineNewspaperPeer-
ReviewedPurposesAudiences
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Do they have experience with online
databases?
How they work
What they are
How to access
How to search
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For those databases, can they create good
search statements?
Keyword searching
Subject searching
Boolean operators
Limiters
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Do they know that Web ≠ Google?
Visible Web—Only 1%!
Invisible WebDatabases
Search directories
Other strategies
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Are they practiced at evaluating online
sources?
Thorough web evaluation skills essential
Six important questions
Using the BEST!
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Do they know the world of citations?
Not the parking kind
Build citations for variety of sources in correct format
Be comfortable with array of in-text citation forms
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What do your students know about plagiarism?
Understand what it is
Know how to avoid it
Be proficient atSummarizing
Paraphrasing
Quoting
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Do your students use the library catalog?
Navigating a search
Comparing Library of Congress to Dewey Decimal
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How can these skill areas be
strengthened?Working with Teacher
LibrariansSubject Specialist +
Research Specialist = TEAM
Learning in contextVariety of research
queriesVariety of project
formats
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Do your students see the library as a resource
for more than books?
Other services frequently offered
Online subscriptions for periodicals and ebooks
Study space
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Encourage your students to widen
their research knowledge
Online tutorials
Library workshopsOther academic workshops
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Reference librarians love to help
Save time
Direct to resources
Help via many channels
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Things they should carry
ID cardCashKnowledge of computer sign-
onHow to access school emailKnowledge of remote access
proceduresDatabases, ebooksOnline labs
Writing implements
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Internet resource list available
Transitioning to College: Helping You Succeed (Kent State)
Assignment Calculator (UCLA)
Citing Sources within Your Paper (Duke)
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Websites Mentioned
Articles and reports cited (in order of mention in presentation)
Scribner, Sara. “Saving the Google Students.” Los Angeles Times 21 March 2010. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scribner21-2010mar21,0,764753.story
Focusing on the Essentials for College and Career Readiness: Policy Implications of the ACT National Curriculum Survey Results 2009 ACT http://www.act.org/research/curricsurvey.html
“The Web That’s Hidden from You” Weekend Edition Sunday. National Public Radio. 27 Dec 2009 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121946548
Other online resources
Transitioning to College: Joint project between Kent State University, academic, and high school librarians in Ohio http://www.transitioning2college.org/index.html
Assignment Calculator: UCLA Road to Research Tutorial http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/modules/freecalc/index.php
Citing Sources within Your Paper: Duke Libraries Reference & Research http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/within/index.html