Academic Scholars Institute 2003
Topics of the Times
ASI 2003
SKILLS
RESOURCES
ADDICTION
EVALUATION
DEBATE
MLA
SOLUTIONS
INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS SELF-ASSESSMENT
Finding
Use Google in advanced mode.
Use other search engines and gateway sites (examples: Teoma, Wisenut, Dogpile, CEOexpress, about.com, others).
Use Boolean "and" and "or" to construct searches online.
Search fields in a record.
Use advanced searching operators (Boolean NOT, adjacent, near, with, same closing for and depending on search system.
Use truncation and exact quotes ("literal strings") in searching.
Library Resources
Use the Rutgers University Libraries website (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu) to find Rutgers-owned resources.
Use the Subject Guides to find subject-specific resources selected by the Rutgers librarians covering online, print, and other materials at the Rutgers University Libraries and elsewhere.
Use the Electronic Reference Sources to find various types of online resources such as almanacs dictionaries, employment information, encyclopedias, maps, and New Jersey weather.
Use IRIS to find books owned by Rutgers by keyword, author, title, subject heading (Library of Congress).
Use IRIS to find periodicals owned in print, microform, or electronic formats.
Tip: Use browse search to find exact book titles, author names, subject headings, and periodical titles.
Tip: Restrict searches to Dana Library by dropping "library" menu and choosing Dana.
Tip: Search author names last name first.
Tip: Find subject headings by doing keyword searches and examining records OR look in the big red books (Library of Congress Subject Headings) at the Reference Desk.
Find books on shelves in the Dana Library.
Tip: We use the Library of Congress system. Letters are part of the number.
Tip: Reference books, designated "REF" in the catalog entry, are located on the first floor of the Dana Library.
Tip: Circulating books, designated "STACKS" in the catalog entry, are located on the second floor of the Dana Library.
Request books from other Rutgers libraries.
Tip: Use the
button for regular circulating books.
Tip: Use the
button for reference books and in-process books.
Use suggested indexes and databases to find citations to periodical articles.
Locate the actual articles in periodicals using:
full-text databases or
IRIS.
Find print periodicals on shelves at the Dana Library.
Tip: We shelve our periodicals by title on the lower level of the Dana Library.
Request periodical articles from other Rutgers libraries.
Tip: Use the
button to obtain periodical articles.
Use interlibrary loan to receive material not in the Rutgers University Libraries.
Explore all the useful indexes and databases in your field.
Attend lectures and conferences to hear scholars talk about their work in their own words.
Evaluating
Recognize the different kinds of Web sites.
Know the criteria for evaluating messages (Including Web pages)
Tip: Visit our web page called, "Evaluating Web Pages".
Recognize the types of periodicals (popular/scholarly) and the kinds of articles they publish.
Recognize and evaluate the arguments of others.
Recognize the scholarly merit of a given book, article, or Web page. (Is the writer saying anything new? Is the writer saying anything important to me?)
Understand how a given communication fits into the literature of your field.
Understand how a given communication fits into the literature of our times.
Using Information
Differentiate between your work and the work of others. Document the difference.
Learn how to document quotations and weave them into your own text.
Learn to paraphrase and document sources.
Read and understand a citation in a periodicals index or database.
Construct a periodical citation in MLA format.
Construct a book citation in MLA format.
Construct a citation to an electronic source (Web page or other online source) in MLA format.
Set information in context.
Learn to "background" a piece before researching and writing it.
Build your own arguments using external information as support.
Organize and/or outline a piece of writing.
Organize a research project.
Write an annotation, descriptive or evaluative.
Write a review of a work, descriptive or evaluative.
Write an abstract, descriptive or evaluative.
Become acquainted with the most important journals and other publications in your field.
Learn to use the bibliographic and writing styles of your chosen field.
Write a review of the literature about something.
Talk with well-known scholars about their research as a student.
Communicate with scholars as a peer.
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This page was last updated 3 July 2003.
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