Tags: Intro, circulation, book checkout, stacks, locations.

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the importance of using the library to do research.
• Recognize reference librarians, the research helpdesk, and their services.
• Locate the libraries and recognize the library buildings.
• Recognize the process for checking out resources and obtaining a library barcode.
• Recognize the circulation desk as the place to check out materials and obtain reserve items.
• Recognize the following: stacks downstairs, information commons, photocopiers, study areas, and group study rooms.
• Recall your walk-in book borrowing privileges at local libraries.

Tags: web searching; Wikipedia, search engines

• Given examples for search engines, meta search engines, subject directories, identify the differences for each.
• Given a Wikipedia entry, identify its proper use in the research process.
• Describe information available on the free vs. invisible web.

Tags: MLA, APA, Citations, Citing, References, Works Cited.

• Identify the elements of citations
• Distinguish between citations for books, book chapters and journal articles.
• Recognize citation style names

Tags: Catalog, Books

• Given the menu on the library website, the students will recognize the online catalog link.
• Identify the search box and search button
• Identify the online catalog at any library as the place to search for library holdings.
• Recall the library textbook policy
• Sort results list by title, author, date or relevance
• Recall options for revising  search strategy � searching for the author and title together
• Given the title and author of a book, use the NJIT library catalog to identify its location, and its call number.

Tags: Catalog, Books, Subject Searching

• Identify subject headings
• Employ advanced searching techniques in the library catalog

Tags: Articles, Journals, Full text.

• Given the menu on the library website, the students will recognize when to use �Articles via Journals� vs. when to use �Articles via databases.�
• Given a citation, students will retrieve the full text of an article using Journal Finder to check if NJIT subscribes.

Tags: Databases; Journals; Citations; Peer-Reviewed; Scholarly vs Popular

• Define: database, citation, abstract, and full text.
• Distinguish between general article indexes and subject indexes
• Employ a search strategy in a library article database using keywords
• Identify tools to limit or narrow a search strategy
• Locate the full text of an article from the article database
• Interpret a  database record for an article
• Generate a citation using the database�s citation features

Tags: Peer-Reviewed; Scholarly vs Popular; Evaluating

• Describe the difference between scholarly and popular periodicals.
• Identify an author�s credentials and qualifications for writing in a scholarly journal.
• Identify the peer review process
• Define periodicals

Tags: Thesis, Topic,  Research Process

• Ask a research question with precision and clarity;
• Determine the nature and extent of information needed;
• Read for meaning:  Extract the main ideas from information found;
• Become reflective about your own research process;

Tags: Evaluation

• Develop critical thinking skills needed to review a website or author source and evaluate it thoroughly
• Given a website, choose to consider its authority by correctly identifying the author and/or the sponsoring organization of the website and explain the author/corporations qualifications for writing on the topic.
• Given a website, explain the objectivity of a website by looking for a stated or implicit bias within the source/sponsoring organization/author.
• Given a website, explain the currency of the source by looking for the date published/date updated/ dates in the sources used and stating whether that information matters for this subject area or not.
• Given a website, explain any issues with accuracy by reviewing for errors or conflicting information, typographical or grammatical errors.

Tags: Academic Integrity, plagiarism

• Define the terms intellectual property, copyright, and citation.
• Identify their own rights as creators of information.
• State that using another�s words is plagiarism if credit is not given to the original author.
• State the reasons why we must cite.
• State the seriousness of plagiarism and academic dishonesty offenses as listed in the NJIT Academic Integrity Code.

Tags: In Text Citations, Citing Sources, Quotations, Paraphrasing

• Describe the purpose of the in text citation.
• Describe how  the in text refers to the works cited page.
• Create in text citations in author page number style.
• Create in text citations when there's no author or no page number.
• Incorporate signal phrases to indicate quotes.
• Describe when you need to use an in text citation.

• Describe how Google spiders crawl the web to build an index and organize it
• Improve searching by understanding how search results are retrieved, ranked and displayed

•  Recall how recorded information about an event changes over time
•  Judge timeliness of a source
•  Judge relevance and objectivity of a source based on date of publication
•  Judge relevance and objectivity of a source based on type of publication

• Identify sources of legal information
• Employ strategies for Legal Research
• Search law reviews and journals [Secondary literature]
• Search cases directly
• Cite legal cases properly

16. Company & Industry Research Beyond Google

• Identify sources of company and industry information
• Identify appropriate NJIT and/or Rutgers Databases for company and industry research.
• Describe specific types of documents (company profiles, SWOT analyses, market forecasts, etc).

• Define and give examples of primary sources.
• Define and give examples of secondary sources.
• Explain how primary sources can be used for research.
• Explain how secondary. sources are used in research.
• Recognize when a source can be primary in one. situation and secondary in another (i.e. news).