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Blog

Do you like children's/young adult books? Check out our new blog, From the Mixed Up Files of the Pollak Library, created with students enrolled in ENED 442!

Videos

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Mastering Beginning Research Skills

**January 2012 UPDATE: The interfaces for ERIC and Education Full Text have changed. The videos below are still great ways to learn more about how to search databases efficiently.  Updated videos will be uploaded by mid March.

• Introduction
• Using ERIC
• Using Education Full-Text
• The Pollak Library Catalog
• Getting Help

Other Useful Videos

• How to sign up for newsletters from The Chronicle of Higher Education       Transcript       PDF Instructions
• How to sign up for newsletters from Education Week                                    Transcript        PDF Instructions

Tutorials

These items differ from the videos as they include interactive activities so you can test your understanding.

• READ 511: Beginning Library Research
• APA Basic
• APA Exposed: Everything You Wanted to Know About APA Format but Were Afraid to Ask  Created by the Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Links to conference presentation materials

• “Action Research: How to easily incorporate evidence-based librarianship into your professional 

  practice.” Co-presented as a preconference at the ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 24,

  2011 with April Cunningham and Virginia Allison. Soon to be presented as a preconference at CARL

  2012 in San Diego with April Cunningham.

   

• "Are we transferring what we've learned about face-to-face teaching and learning to the online environment?" Presented as part of "Casting a Wide Net: Using Screencasts to Reach and Teach Library Users," Saturday, July 11, 2009, ALA Annual, Chicago, Illinois

 

• "They can find it but they don't know what to do with it: Describing the use of scholarly literature by undergraduate students." Presented as a short paper Tuesday, March 29, 2010, LILAC 2010, Limerick, Ireland