1. English 1AS: Introduction to Library Resources
Librarian: Adam Mann
English 1AS:  Introduction    to Library   Resources
Greeting / overview (5 minutes)
- Talk about the research desk, what the library is here for, etc
- Getting to the library website, asking for help

2. What can I find in the library?
Study Rooms – Request at the reserve desk; quiet study room in L115
Textbooks – Can be checked out at the Reserve desk
Computer lab and printing – on the 2nd floor
Reference Help – Need help finding articles, books, or doing research? Ask a librarian!
Learning Resource Center – One-on-one tutoring, math and English labs

3. Show them how to use library databases to find scholarly articles (10 minutes)
- Show them generally how to get into library databases. Talk about library databases. Show academic search complete. Do a sample search to show them what's possible

4. Don't worry—we will put the books back
Show them how to use library databases to find scholarly articles (10 minutes)
- Show them generally how to get into library databases. Talk about library databases. Show academic search complete. Do a sample search to show them what's possible

5. ARTICLE DATABASES
For an expert opinion

6. Keyword Development
Your Topic: Why is health care so expensive in the United States?
Main ideas: health care, expensive, United States
* Try to make your topic as simple as possible.Topics become much harder to research when they have more than three or four main ideas.

7. How Database Searching Works
   Idea 1:
Health Care
  Idea 2:
Expensive
   Idea 3:
United States
 Idea 1
  AND
 Idea 2
  AND 
 Idea 3
Talk about the research process (5 minutes)
- Selecting a topic, narrowing it down, using boolean, doing the search, repeating if necessary
Have them do a search for scholarly articles on immigration (10 minutes)

8. Show them how to use library databases to find scholarly articles (10 minutes)
- Show them generally how to get into library databases. Talk about library databases. Show academic search complete. Do a sample search to show them what's possible

9. Can’t I just give you a link?
CITING SOURCES
Can’t I just give you a link?
APA format  (10 minutes)
- Talk about the two parts of APA: in-text citations and the Works Cited page
- Talk about why citations, plagiarism, etc
- Show them tools for crafting citations (citation machine)
- Let them know tools for generating citations in databases
- Have them make some citations

10. What is the purpose of a citation?
Showing that an idea came from somewhere else
Helping the reader trace an idea back to its original source
Uses a predefined style that’s easy to read
Citing work helps to avoid being accused of plagiarism

11. When do you cite?
When you use information that you got from somewhere else
When paraphrasing, summarizing, or giving results of a study
When directly quoting from a source
…when in doubt, cite!

13. Thanks!
Any questions?
Adam Mann
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