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Purpose
The Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library's library & research instruction
program forms a part of the universities' critical thinking goals. Librarians
offer instructional services in cooperation with teaching faculty to help
students learn the necessary concepts and skills for successful library
research.
Goals
- To teach students how to define their research needs, locate,
evaluate and effectively use the needed information.
- To teach students to conduct research using both traditional
and electronic information sources.
- To help students become familiar with the scholarly and professional
resources and information systems in their disciplines.
Course-Related
Instruction
Librarians
work closely with the faculty in tailoring library workshops to individual
courses. The research tools fundamental to a particular discipline
are taught, especially in upper-division courses. We expect that
the students in a particular major will graduate with knowledge of
the bibliographic structure of the literature in their fields.
The research program is also closely tied to the Writing I and II sequences.
In these classes the students receive an orientation to the library, to
the research strategy, and to our various databases. They learn about
the purposes served by journals and about the differences between these
journals and they learn to critically evaluate electronic information.
Library & research instruction forms a part of most of the disciplines
taught at the university. Further individual instruction is available
to students individually at the Whitworth Library's Reference Desk.
Contact
the Coordinator of Instructional Services
To Faculty: With sufficient lead time, librarians
can provide library & research instruction sessions and printed materials
geared specifically to your course and assignment. Please have a course
syllabus and/or a research assignment available for the librarian.
Plan ahead to schedule the best times. To schedule your class for
library & research instruction during the current term, call the Tami Robinson at 509.777.4483 or e-mail trobinson@whitworth.edu.
The Library's Coordinator of Instructional Services is also available
to work with teaching faculty to design an appropriate assignment to achieve
your course goals/objectives. Use the Tips
for Effective Library-based Assignments to create research assignments.
Interactive
Library Tutorials on the Web
LOBO: Library Online Basic Orientation
LOBO offers counsel on research strategy, including a step-by-step process. It is sponsored by NC State University libraries.
The
Good, The Bad, & the Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate
Web Sources by Susan E. Beck, Head, Humanities & Social
Sciences Services Department, New Mexico State University Library. | |
