Education 6070 library instruction session at Belmont University

1. Courtney Fuson
615-460-5492
courtney.fuson@belmont.edu

2.  How to recognize scholarly resources
 How to locate subject-specific databases
 How to effectively search the library’s databases
 How to distinguish between different citations
 How to use a bibliography (or works cited) to
identify potential sources

3.  AKA “peer reviewed”, “refereed”, “journal
articles”
 discipline-specific
 peer-reviewed
 written on a higher reading level
 written by a credentialed author
 cite their sources

4.  Internet
 Google?
 Google Scholar?
 Wikipedia? – References list?
 Library
 Catalog?
 Databases?

5.  Library catalog
 Provides access to everything the library owns
 Books
 Journals
 E-books
 Databases
 Media

6.  Collection of newspaper, magazine and journal
articles
 Can include dissertations, reports and other
resources
 http://library.belmont.edu
 Click on Databases
 Scroll down and click on Education to see all of the
education resources

7.  Keyword searching
 Boolean Searching
 AND
 OR
 Subject searching
 Thesaurus

8. Supreme
education
Court
Supreme Court AND education

9. inclusion
special
mainstreaming
education
inclusion OR mainstreaming OR special education

10.  Supreme Court AND education
 inclusion OR special education OR
mainstreaming
 public schools AND (inclusion OR
mainstreaming OR special education)
 “special education”

11.  list of subjects and related terms used to
standardize the descriptions of articles in the
database.
 You can select and search for synonyms,
related, and preferred terms.

12.  Government Documents
 Department of Education (state & federal)
 Statistics
 National Center for Education Statistics
 National Assessment of Educational Progress
 Nation’s Report Card
 Census Bureau
 http://delicious.com/library_chic/belmontedu

13. Great! I found some stuff! Now what?

14.  Is the information reliable?
 How do you know?

15.  Is the author identified?
 What are the author’s credentials?
 Are the credentials relevant to the topic?

16.  Is there a date?
 If it’s older information, is it still accurate?

17.  Why is this information being presented?
 Who is the intended audience?

18.  Is the author or organization biased?
 Does the source represent both sides of the
issue?
 What is the tone of the source?

19.  Is it a…
 Book
 Book chapter
 Article
 Dissertation
 Report

20.  Kember, David. Action Learning and Action
Research: Improving the Quality of Teaching
and Learning. London: Kogan Page. 2000.

21.  CUBCat (the library’s catalog)
 Title search
 Kember, David. Action Learning and Action
Research: Improving the Quality of Teaching
and Learning. London: Kogan Page. 2000.

22.  D’Amato, John. “The Belly of the Beast: On
Cultural Difference, Castelike Statues and the
Politics of School.” Anthropolgy and Education
Quarterly, 18.4 (1987): 357-360

23.  CUBCat (the library’s catalog)
 Journal Title
 D’Amato, John. “The Belly of the Beast: On
Cultural Difference, Castelike Statues and the
Politics of School.” Anthropolgy and Education
Quarterly, 18.4 (1987): 357-360
 .

24.  Getty, Jacob. A School Action Plan with
Stakeholder Involvement: A Case Study of One
Elementary School. Diss. Wilmington University
(Delaware), 2011.

25.  Usually availably only through InterLibrary Loan
 ProQuest lists many dissertations (ProQuest
Dissertations & Abstracts)
 Library catalog of the publishing university
 WorldCat (http://worldcat.org)
 Getty, Jacob. A School Action Plan with
Stakeholder Involvement: A Case Study of One
Elementary School. Diss. Wilmington University
(Delaware), 2011.

26.  King, Martha L., and Rentel, Victor M. How
children learn to write: A longitudinal study.
Report to the National Institute of Education,
Washington, D. C. 1981.

27.  Try the publishing agency’s website
 Try Google or Google Scholar
 Try a subject-specific database
 King, Martha L., and Rentel, Victor M. How
children learn to write: A longitudinal study.
Report to the National Institute of Education,
Washington, D. C. 1981.

29.  Eisenhard, Margaret and Borko, Hilda.
Designing Classroom Research: Themes,
Issues, and Struggles. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
1993.

30.  Saul, Wendy, and J. Carrie Launius. "Making the
Case for ACTION Research." Science
Scope 34.1 (2010): 24-29.

31.  Turner, Susan A. "Teaching research to
teachers: A self-study of course design, student
outcomes, and instructor learning." Journal of
the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning 10.2
(2010): 60-77.

32.  In person – 3rd floor
 Office hours: M-F 8am-4:30pm
(other times available by appointment)
 Via email – courtney.fuson@belmont.edu
 By phone – 615-460-5492
 Online
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 Hotmail: library_chic@hotmail.com
 Gmail/Jabber: librarian.courtney@gmail.com

33.  Library Home page: http://library.belmont.edu
 Education Resources -
http://belmont.libguides.com/education
 Today’s slides: http://slideshare.net/library_chic
 More education resources -
http://delicious.com/library_chic/belmontedu