Research Tips

MLA Annual Conference, November 2011

Suzanne — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:12:56 +0000

Free (or Cheap) Tools You Can Use to Improve Your Library Website

Would you like to know how patrons are actually using your website? Do you want to make your website more interactive? This session will focus on free or low cost tools you can use to improve your website. Tools such as Google Analytics and Crazy Egg can give you information about popular pages and characteristics of website visitors. Adding a Google custom search box to your website can provide insight into what patrons are searching for on your site which can help you create new content or revise existing content. Find out how to easily add polls, surveys, and video widgets to your website. Learn how to highlight library resources by creating RSS feeds for new materials in your Library Catalog. Create a Library blog to promote library services and materials, as well as to collaborate with other departments to highlight resources and events. Finally, discover resources for learning about new tools in the future.

Student Services Divisional Meeting, October 2011

Suzanne — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:13:17 +0000

Free Tools You Can Use to Improve Your Website

Would you like to know how patrons are actually using your website? Do you want to make your website more interactive? This session will focus on free tools you can use to improve your website. Tools such as Google Analytics can give you information about popular pages and characteristics of website visitors. Create a blog to promote services, as well as to collaborate with other departments to highlight resources and events. Set up a chat widget to provide additional methods of contact beyond phone and email. Finally, find out where to learn more about these tools.

Writing 122 – Humphries

Suzanne — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:38:54 +0000

Post one question about doing research that you would like answered in today’s library session.

Post a tip for other Writing 122 students about doing research.

Writing 121 – Hernandez – Session #2

Suzanne — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:33:07 +0000

Since the last library session, what is one thing you have learned about doing research?
What is one question you would like answered about doing research?
Which search strategy listed on the board do you still have questions about?

Writing 121 – Kendy

Suzanne — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:59:33 +0000

Please share one tip with other Writing 121 students about doing research.

Writing 121 – Fox

Suzanne — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:12:06 +0000

Please post a research tip for other Writing 121 students.

Writing 121 – Hernandez

Suzanne — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:38:57 +0000

Please post a research tip for other Writing 121 students at LCC.

Writing 121-Vance

Suzanne — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:47:06 +0000

You have five minutes to post one tip for other writing 121 students about doing library research. Explain your tip as if you were talking to another student and you would like them to be able to use this idea right away. For example, don’t just write “subject searching is helpful” but explain why it can help you find relevant articles.

Evaluating Internet Sources – Can garlic help lower your cholesterol?

Suzanne — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:55:23 +0000

1. Website to evaluate together as a group

Garlic Health Benefit
http://www.raysahelian.com/garlic.html

2. Websites to evaluate by row
Evaluate the website assigned to your row based on the CARS checklist.

Rows 1 and 2
Garlic and Cholesterol
http://www.garlic.mistral.co.uk/cholest.htm

Rows 3 and 4
Garlic: Effects on Cardiovascular Risks and Disease
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/garlicsum.htm

Search Strategies – Writing 122 – Petrouske

Suzanne — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:42:31 +0000

With a partner or on your own, describe one search strategy that you are familiar with or that you learned in the session today either to narrow or broaden a search.

In twenty words or more, explain the search strategy to someone who’s unfamiliar with it. First, explain if the strategy is used to find more articles (broaden your search) or find fewer articles (narrow your search).

To develop your explanation, you might describe the concept, provide examples, compare it to something else, explain how it works – or all of these things.

Here are some possible search strategies you could explain:

Boolean Searching: AND, OR, NOT
Subject Searching
Keyword Searching
Truncation or Wildcards: school*
Phrase Searching: “school violence”
Limiting your search: full-text or peer-reviewed articles