Library 150 Information Literacy & Research Skills

1. Library 150 Information Literacy & Research Skills E. Chisato Uyeki Fall 2006: Week 1September 22, 2006

2. Getting Started • Introductions • 3x5 cards • Review Syllabus • Library Services, Mission, & Library Web

3. Name Major & grade level Email Telephone Number(s) 3x5 cards • Why you are taking Library 150 and what you hope to learn PLEASE WRITE LEGIBLY

4. E. Chisato Uyeki (Chisa) MLIS and BA in Women’s Studies cuyeki@calstatela.edu 323-343-4824 3x5 cards • Information Literacy skills and knowledge needs and interests of LIBR 150 students • Support students in learning and being empowered in information access, retrieval, and evaluation

5. Searching and Researching • Evolving and dynamic process • Often time consuming • Can be frustrating • Good planning and note taking pays off in the long run Finding what you are looking for: 1) Know what it is you are looking for 2) Look in the right place

6. The Research Process • Read and understand the assignment • Choose a topic (know what you are looking for) • Develop a research statement or question • Identify the type of information that is needed • i.e., statistics, background, analysis, personal stories • Understand & identify appropriate resources (knowing where to look) • General background info- books, magazines, newspaper articles • Analysis and Research- scholarly journals and books • Firsthand Accounts and Original Evidence- primary resources

7. The Research Process (more) • Choose the right tool to find the resources(Also knowing where to look) • Books = Catalog • Articles = Databases and bibliographies • Not sure = Ask a librarian • Develop a strong search query • Decide on search terms (including alternate terms) and how to combine  Search  Evaluate search results  Revise search depending upon the results • Locate the items that you need

8. Choosing Topics • Interesting? • Do pre-searching to help decide • Not too narrow and not too broad • A good match with the assignment

9. Narrowing a Topic • Too broad? • Automobiles in America is too broad • The role and representation of automobiles in Beat Literature is manageable • Narrow your focus • Time period • Place • Person/Group • Concept/Event/Aspect

10. Research Question and Keywords Research Question (the topic as a question) and then choose keywords: • How did the automobile affect the rapid growth of US metropolises and changes in lifestyle?

11. Research Question and Keywords Research Question (the topic as a question) and then choose keywords: • How did the automobileaffect the rapidgrowth of USmetropolises and changes in lifestyle?

12. Sample research statement or question: How did the automobile affect the rapid growth of US metropolises and changes in lifestyle? • Key concepts for sample research statement: • Automobile • Metropolises • Lifestyle • Rapid growth • Helpful alternate terms for the sample key concepts: • Automobile, automobiles, car • Metropolises, cities, city, suburbs, communities • Lifestyle, mobility, freedom, and luxury • Rapid growth, development

13. In Class Exercise • Complete the first 4 steps

14. Academic Disciplines • Branches of knowledge which are taught or researched at the college or university level • Ways of organizing knowledge • Provide particular perspectives • Have evolved & changed over time • Intersections have spurred new fields & interdisciplinary studies • Often grouped into Science, Humanities, & Social Sciences • Communicate through the discipline specific scholarly literature, associations and learned societies

15. Major Disciplines

16. Different Disciplines Mean Different • Ways of knowledge creation • Vocabularies • Methods of information dissemination • Information cycles • Research strategies / sites of investigation

17. Information Cycles

18. How Information Becomes Knowledge • Idea • Background research • Research plan • Research • Communicate findings • Findings made available (Indexing) • Interpretation by others • In Encyclopedia, textbook, popular materials

19. Disciplinary Perspectives : Automobile • Humanities • Visual Arts -- Product design • History -- The impact of automobile on changes of lifestyles • Social Science • Criminal Justice – Motor Vehicle Codes • Sociology – Automobile ownership and resulting social change • Science • Physics – car making materials • Chemistry -- Carbon dioxide in gas

20. Humanities • Methods of information dissemination • Historians: letters, newspapers, photos, manuscripts, archives, books, journals articles … • Research strategies / sites of investigation • Libraries, museums, archives … • Research Goals • Analysis and interpretation of works or evidence to learn broad truths • Retrospective • Current, 20, 100, 2000 …

21. Social Sciences • Methods of Investigation • Varies-experiments, tests, surveys, fieldwork, case studies … • Research strategies / sites of investigation • Libraries, field, lab … • Research Goals • Varies • Retrospective • Current, and some retrospective

22. Natural Sciences • Methods of Investigation • Varies-experiments, tests, • Research strategies / sites of investigation • Laboratories, libraries … • Research Goals • Verifiable data, experimental results • Retrospective • Last 5 years

23. In Class Exercise • Complete final step- disciplines