Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Tools for You

1. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Tools for You

2. About me • Technical Services means lots of things in our library • Serials • Cataloging – Metadata • Acquisitions • Deploying search tools • Bibliographic instruction and reference

3. For my information…. • Email? • Devices? Personal | In Class • Content Management Software? • eBooks? • Databases other than INFOhio? • Post Secondary Option Students?

4. A word about Digital Natives 10 Strategies To Encourage Digital Natives To Value Information • It sounds counter-intuitive, but periodically create information-scarce circumstances that force students to function without it. • Illuminate—or have them illuminate—the research process itself. • Do entire projects where the point is not the information, but its utility. • Use think-alouds to model the thinking process during research. • Create single-source research assignments where students have to do more with less. • Change the assignment mid-course by demanding new resources other than those most accessible. • Create the need for “open-ended data” they can’t possibly Google. • Have them create a visual metaphor, analogy, or concept map before and after the research process that demonstrates the role that Google, and Google-sourced information, played. • Have students create a concept-map or other clever characterization for the limits of Google (or any other search engine). • Use a balance of both post primary and secondary sources. http://www.teachthought.com/technology/teaching-google-natives-to-value-information/

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6. Something old… • Searching the card catalog is still a very important skill. Students need to understand the concept of how a library works. • It forms the basis of all library searching skills. • Trails – www.trails-9.org

7. The OPAC is the new shelf list • Our eCollection by the numbers eBooks – 81,761 eJournals – 23,755 titles print journals - 218 databases – 28 images, music and video – 140,147

8. Consistency -- work with what you have • All of the INFOhio databases are available through OhioLINK • EBSCOHost: Enhanced content purchased at the college level by OhioLINK; most schools purchase even more content from EBSCO • Literature Online • Learning Express Library • Mango • Oxford Reference Online • Newsbank • Ancestry

9. Skill sets -- you can never start too early • Basic word processing skills are essential • Excel is helpful • PowerPoint will be expected • Content Management Software • Email -- how to email a professor, or anyone for that matter • Attachments • The “Cloud” • Authentication –

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11. Something new • Discovery Tools • eBooks • iMatrix

12. Something borrowed…. Many students do not understand how to write an argumentative paper.

13. How to keep up in the digital age • If you like social media, pick a format you like and use it! • I use Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook • Twitter is rapid fire updating • Pinterest is great for graphics • Facebook is more mainstream

14. RSS feeds are still going strong • Many academic journals provide feeds for new content • Most publisher platforms offer mobile apps for content • Many librarians share information through blogs and feeds and are easy to follow

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