This class with Nick Dease, the film and humanities librarian, was very helpful. He went through a plethora of resources that are available to us which I otherwise would never have known about. He first went through the processes of interlibrary loan, holding for pick up, and the online chat with a librarian. He also explained the UR One Search and showed us the best ways to search the database and find what we need. He described to us the variety of resources available, such as books, magazines, journals, and films. He also touched on the importance of learning the unique language of your topic to better be able to research and find resources about it.

He then went on to describe evaluating the sources we find based on their relevance, reliability, and legitimacy. He emphasized going through each source and tracing back different claims and quotes. After this, he talked about the different formats of citing a source such as APA, MLA, and Chicago, and went through the different benefits and drawbacks of each as well as different use cases. He also talked about the importance of giving credit where it’s due to avoid plagiarism, even if it is accidental. Not only does giving credit avoid plagiarism, but it also contributes to scholarly conversation.

He then finished up with some additional methods to narrow down search engine results such as placing quotes around text or explicitly stating “Not” to avoid certain results.

P.S. Sorry for the late response, I didn’t realize I was the responder for this class until I was looking ahead at the weekly schedule