I am here to help your students in class and on their own time.
In Class:
I can come into your classroom or your students can use the Dubin Room.
5 min- Overview of library services and finding information in the library's website.
30 min- To cover 3 relevant databases, including one article database (covering why and how to cite the source).
20 min- Hands on time with working on the assignment.
7 min- To discuss problems/strategies.
other items to cover:
20 min- Data sources and evaluation and Open data.
15 min- Using Refworks to collect and manage citations and to create a bibliography.
20 min- Evaluating webpages and effective web-searching.
10 min- How to find non-published information: associations, conferences, interviews.
35 min- Understanding bias and developing critical thinking.
Customized - Tailored to the needs of the your course, examphttp://guides.library.georgetown.edu/STRT283le.
On their time:
If you don't have time for to me to come to your class, please consider some of these services: create a course guide to assist students in assignments and further edification, add current awareness via a RSS feed on your Blackboard page, or add links to learn better websearching skills. I can also create online tutorials for specific databases. Feel free to direct your students to me during my office hours or to set up a Four-Warm Bodies session.
Guides: A course guide or subject guide that focuses attention on relevant sources or services and act as a primer to start exploring.
Online Tutorial: Concentrates on how to use one source that may have a steep learning curve, such as
Student-requested sessions/Four-Warm Bodies: This arrangement is made between at least 4 students and myself to come to Hariri and teach them a database such as Bloomberg or other complicated databases that requires some kind of hands on experience to understand how to use it.
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-1:30 and Wednesday 4:30-6:00 in Lauinger Library and by appointment
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