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The Vann Library `A La Carte Instruction Menu - PILOT

Library Services
Library Instruction
Pilot á La Carte Instruction Menu

Welcome to the Lee & Jim Vann Library Instruction Banquet

This menu was created as a guide to planning library instruction sessions for your classes. If needed, these topics can be modified to fit the specific needs of your class.

As you make your selections, keep in mind the ‘price’ of each item.  If the total cost of your selections adds up to more than you've budgeted (i.e. one class period) you may choose to come back for seconds (schedule a second session by filling out a second form) or change your choices to fit your budget. There should be something on the menu for every budget!

Once you have finalized your choices, click ‘submit.’ The library "wait staff" will send an email confirmation to you when your order had been received and placed in our system.  If you do not receive confirmation within three days of submitting this form, or if you have any other questions, please contact your maitre d', Cindy Kump at ext. 6056 or ckump@sf.edu.

You can view the full list of ACRL standards or select to view particular outcomes as they apply to a particular menu item, listed as "Nutritional Value".

  Introduction and conclusion (Required)

 Price: 5 minutes
  Who we are, what we do, how to find us
 
Website tour
 Price: 10 minutes
  Familiarizes students with the resources and information found on the library’s web page including online catalogs, databases, off-campus access, reference resources, general library information, and forms for Interlibrary loan, group study room reservations, etc.
 
Online catalogs
 Nutritional Value: 2.3.a,b
 Price: 10 minutes
  Covers strategies in searching for materials other than journal articles, how to read the results of a search, reciprocal borrowing, placing holds, renewing materials online and requesting books through WorldCat.
 
  Evaluating journals
 Nutritional Value: 1.2.a-d
 Price: 30 minutes
  Brief explanation of relationship between print journals and online databases.  How to distinguish between popular, trade, and scholarly journals. Includes hands on activity.
 
  Evaluating web sites
 Nutritional Value: 3.2.a-d
 Price: 30 minutes
  Discusses authoritativeness, currency, and bias as part of the evaluation of web sites. Includes hands on activity and a discussion of Wikipedia.
 
Primary vs. Secondary sources
Nutritional Value: 1.2.e,f and 2.3.d
Price: 10 minutes
  Examples of primary and secondary resources and the uses of each.  The importance of empirical research is emphasized.
   
Introduction to the Research process
Nutritional Value: 1.1.b-f, 1.2.c, 1.3.a,c, 1.4.a,b, 2.1.a-d, 2.2.a-c, 2.3.a, 2.4.a-c, 2.5.b, 3.3.a-c, 3.4.a-c, e-g,  3.5.a-b, 3.7.a-c, 4.1.a-c, 4.2.a,b
Price: 45 minutes
  The steps involved in the research process such as narrowing the topic, creating a thesis statement, developing questions to frame research, and planning the search.  Emphasis is placed on the cyclical nature of research.
   
EBSCO database searching
 Nutritional Value:  2.2.c-e, 2.3.a, 2.5.d,e
 Price: 45 minutes
  Demonstrates the mechanics of a search, how to use the folder feature, My EBSCOHost, printing a .pdf, limiting by date, peer review, etc., advanced, and discusses how to choose search terms. Discusses how to find full text of articles through EBSCO A to Z.
  If you are looking for a basic, general database choose Academic Search Premier; otherwise you may choose any of the other databases list below:
  Academic Search Premier

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic

Business Source Premier

CINAHL Plus with Full Text   

Corporate ResourceNet  

ERIC  

Health Business FullTEXT

Health Source - Consumer Edition  

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Lexi-PAL Drug Guide

McClatchy-Tribune Collection

MasterFILE Premier  

MEDLINE

Military & Government Collection

MLA Directory of Periodicals

MLA International Bibliography    

Newspaper Source 

Professional Development Collection  

PsycARTICLES  

PsycBOOKS

PsycINFO

Regional Business News

SocINDEX with Full Text

TOPICsearch

 

   
Non-EBSCO databases
 Nutritional Value: 2.2.c-e, 2.3.a, 2.5.d,e
  Covers the features of any of our non-EBSCO databases such as:
 Price: Biography Resource Center – 10 minutes

 Price:

JStor – 15 minutes

 Price:

Wilson Art – 15 minutes
 Price: ArtStor – 5 minutes

 Price:

Gale Literature – 10 minutes

   
Google Scholar
 Nutritional Value: 2.2.c-e, 2.3.a
Price: 10 – 15 minutes
  How to use Google to find scholarly materials, including materials in the library’s collection.
   
Plagiarism
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Price:  
   
   
  Open Lab Research Session
 Price: 30 minutes +
  If you’ve thought about giving your students class time to work on their projects in the library, consider reserving the instruction lab.  A librarian will be available to assist students as they work, making more productive use of class time.
   
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