Find and use Web-based primary sources
Integrating Web-Based Primary Resources into Your Web Pages is
the title of a two-part workshop designed for faculty, staff and
graduate students. The sessions will be on January 25 and February
15 at 2:00pm. The January workshop will focus on finding primary
sources on the Web, and the February workshop will examine various
techniques available for integrating these materials. Jeff Barry,
Systems and Automation Librarian, and Karen Vaughan, Digital Services
Librarian, will lead the workshops, to be held in the Information
Technologies Instruction Center, room 163 of Perry Library. No registration
is necessary. For more information, call 683-4184.
Learn from "surf & turf" sessions
All faculty,
staff and students are invited to attend these introductory sessions
in January. In the "surf" sessions, you'll learn some of the best
techniques for searching the library catalog, journal article databases
and the Web. These are held on Tuesdays at 12:30 in the lobby of
Perry Library, on January 18 and 25. The "turf" sessions are tours
of the major sections of Perry Library, with advice on using them
effectively. They begin in the lobby at 12:30 on Thursdays, January
20 and 27. Registration is not necessary; just meet in the lobby
by the poster. For more information, call 683-4178.
StarQuest teaches basic skills
StarQuest:
Success Tips for Academic Research is a new interactive online tutorial
that is available for anyone to use. It teaches basic library and
information skills, such as finding periodical articles and searching
the Web effectively. Additionally, the tutorial includes a glossary
and sections on plagiarism and evaluation of sources. The sections
are designed to be viewed sequentially but may also be used separately
to meet specific research needs.StarQuest can be used independently
or in conjunction with a course. A multiple-choice quiz at the end
of each section helps to reinforce learning, and a "final exam" is available as well. The latter should prove useful to faculty
who would like to include StarQuest as a required course assignment.
To get to the tutorial, begin at the library's homepage, http://www.lib.odu.edu,
and click on Research Assistance, then on StarQuest. Note that other
tutorials and aids are available here also. To go directly to StarQuest,
enter http://www.lib.odu.edu/research/tutorials/starquest. If you
have questions or suggestions, please contact the authors at cswaine@odu.edu
and ehogue@odu.edu. |
Web workshops for students
Look for details
soon about workshops for students on Web searching techniques. The
hands-on sessions will be held on February 1 and March 14 at 12:30pm,
during the activity hour. Reservations are necessary and may be
made by calling 4178 or visiting the reference desk on the day of
the workshop.
Use online book ordering
Faculty: try
ordering your books electronically at http://www.lib.odu.edu/forms/facreqfrm.shtml
New head of collection access
In late October,
Theresa Johnson became the new Head of Access Services. As such,
she is responsible for library circulation, microforms and interlibrary
loan services, as well as the Hofheimer Art Library and Diehn Composers
Room. Previously, she served as Head of the Circulation Department,
Humanities Reference Librarian, Assistant to the Director and Acting
Director at the University of West Florida. She has also held reference
librarian and online research coordinator positions at the University
of Alabama. She received her B.A. at Judson College and her Master
of Library Services degree from the University of Alabama.
UnCover document delivery service
A new document delivery service called UnCover is available to
Old Dominion University § Distance learning students (including
students at Higher Education Centers) § Distance learning faculty
§ Faculty in the Colleges of Engineering and Health Sciences This
is a pilot project. We will be evaluating the use and effectiveness
of this new service before possible expansion to all faculty and
on-campus students. UnCover provides photocopies of nearly 9,000,000
articles in 18,000 journals from 1989 to the present. The subject
areas included in the UnCover database are: § Social sciences (about
40% of the titles) § Science, technology, medicine (about 51% of
the titles) § Humanities (about 9% of the titles) Perry Library
will pay for articles that cost $25 or less. For more information,
call Interlibrary Loan Services at 683-4170. |
