intro to library research:
Nick Dease Power Point Presentation

 

-Nick Dease, film & humanities librarian

-self introduction

 

-research services & resources

services: interlibrary loan (need to create an account), hold for pick up, chat with a librarian, text them…

resources: books, magazine, journals, films, onesearch (may not always be true), databases (a bucket of contents)

 

-starting your research

avoid binding decisions

learn the unique language of your topic

evaluate the source you find (currency, reliability, authority, purpose) (stop, investigate, find better coverage, trace claims, quotes and media to the original context)

 

-citing source

APA(when the research was performed), MLA(easy to read, citing to prevent plagiarism), Chicago

give credit where it’s due and avoid plagiarism

contributes to a scholarly conversation

what may be common knowledge in one culture may not be common knowledge in other groups

 

-searching library sources

ways to narrow down the search results

research database–>subject