Library Research Skills Workshop with Gayle Berry

Learn how to search Library resources:

1) Go physically to the shelves, where we have books located and browse for interesting and relevant materials (at some point of your research)

2) search world cat,

3) identify appropriate online journal databases for your project (OCLC, Ingenta, ABI inform; Wilson Omni, J-Stor for materials 5+ yrs old, etc)

4) Learn to search by subject, keyword, author, date

5) Learn how to read abstracts carefully and evaluate their appropriateness for your research

6) If you found a useful reference or source, carefully scan the references for further useful materials

7) Learn how to order articles and books via interlibrary loan

Managing Your Search with Refworks (it’s a beautiful thing):

8) Learn how to mark and save references you found useful and interesting

1) Open a Refworks account

2) Export your marked record to Refworks. It will form the basis for your annotated bibliography.

3) Create a folder in Refworks with the title of your project and put all your downloaded references into that folder

Provide a printout of your Refworks Citations (foundation for annotated bibliography):

4) After you completed your search, and downloaded all your marked items from the online library resources to Refworks, consolidate them all in one combined folder.

5) Switch the display to “One line/cite view” and select “print” Choose MLA format as the output.

6) Add your name and the title of your search to the beginning of this print out.

Bring it to class on Monday, 2/19. This will count as 10% of your research paper.