Video Guides/Tutorials
As mentioned at the last reference meeting, I would like to begin working on video guides/tutorials for the library website. Please post suggestions/questions/re-wording to the two areas below.
1. Topics. In this section, please add suggestions for guide topics. Here is what I’ve come up with so far, and I’ve grouped them according to what categories they might fall under. The “-” indicates where the hyperlink to the guide would be.
I was thinking the page could be titled “Help! How do I….”
Find Books?
Using the Knox Online Catalog
-Find a book when you know the Title or Author
-Find a book on a particular subject
-Advanced Searches
-Understanding Library of Congress call numbers
-Using I-Share
-Using WorldCat
Find Articles?
-Selecting a database
-General Tips for searching databases
-Find Full Text articles
-Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost
-JSTOR
-LexisNexis
-Find Journals Online?
-Find Course Reserves?
Get things the Knox Library doesn’t have?
-Articles via the ILLiad Service
-Books via I-Share
Start my Research?
-Developing a Topic
-Reference Books
-Search Strategies (synonyms, AND/OR/NOT, subject words, etc.)
Renew items I have checked out?
-Items from the Knox Library or I-Share
-Items from other libraries (ILLiad)
-Find Images?
-Find Films?
-Find Newspapers?
-Find Primary Sources?
-Use Google Scholar effectively?
-Use Google Books to find library materials?
-Use Wikipedia effectively?
-Find images, music and videos to use for your projects?
2. Please rate which guides you think should be done first. My choices would be: Finding Books, Finding Articles and Getting things the Knox Library doesn’t have.
I think some basic tutorials that could be widely used are: how to look up reserves in our catalog, how to read LC call numbers, how to request items on I-Share. I also like the first two you have listed under “Using the Knox Library Catalog.” How about one about linking to full text via the SFX Find It button that appears in databases?
Comment by Laurie — December 12, 2008 @ 2:35 pm