Business research clinics with proposal for services.

The Business librarians are offering "Business Research Clinics" in the Business school. This is the information they submitted when proposing the sessions:

Who? Marriott School students at any level.

What? One-hour workshops orienting students to the library’s business resources through demonstrations of real-life research problems, with opportunities for one-on-one assistance.

Where? Tanner Building classrooms—bringing the library to the students.

When? Beginning Fall Semester, once or twice per month, late afternoons or early evenings.

Why? Students are unaware of or bewildered by databases and other library resources. During individual consultations they have asked if there are classes where they can learn these skills.

How? Conducted by BYU’s professional librarians with the assistance of their student employees. Advertised through posters, emails, classroom announcements, the library website, etc. Evaluated through attendance and survey data.

http://www.lib.byu.edu/business/index.php/the-business-research-clinics

Goals:

• Participants will gain information literacy, learning to: Articulate their information needs.

• Identify and search within relevant resources, including many used by real-world businesses.

Assessment:

Attendance counts are taken and a survey is given to the students at the end of the Business Clinic.

Freshman research labs targeted to critical moments.

The First-Year-Writing manager, Kimball Benson, has targeted the optimum learning for Freshman students by offering open research labs. These labs are held in the library's instruction classroom on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings and are staffed by two student teaching assistants, one for research help and one a trained writing tutor. Students drop in and stay as long as they wish. They have access to all electronic research resources, word processing software, and individual help. The labs are not limited to freshmen, but they use the service the most. Advertising is placed around the library and in advisement centers. Students from the Freshman English classes receive two instruction sessions on their research paper assignment but often feel the need for additional help. The students are motivated by need to come and learn skills that help them in all their research projects by peer tutors. The campus faculty are also pleased because they have a place to send their students for individual help.
http://net.lib.byu.edu/instruction/libclasses/Open%20Lab.htm

Goals:

• Participants will identify information needs and find appropriate sources to meet their needs.

• Participants will effectively apply information literacy skills by solving research and writing problems for their class assignments.

Assessment:

Attendance counts and survey as students leave the session.

Camtasia videos feed instruction to distance learning students.

Short instructional videos produced using Camtasia software have been utilized to provide instruction to distance learning students. The content covers how to find books in the OPAC, how to search for articles in databases, how to find articles from citations, how to narrow results and evaluate articles found, how to order materials from Interlibrary loan and how to get help from the library. These videos, along with the online Library Research Skills tutorial, are incorporated into a Library Services Portal within distance education courses. A science librarian has also created Camtasia tutorials for Biology 100 students to support their research assignment. Currently there are two – How to tell if a journal is peer reviewed and how to do a basic search in Medline. The videos will be placed on her Research Guide.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/coned/video.html (Distance Ed videos)

Goals / Assessment:

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