- Provide overview of Library services.
- Material support (books, articles, dvds, equipment)
- Writing & Research support (tutoring center, writing center, reference desk, research librarians)
- Spaces (study rooms, recording rooms, study areas)
- Misc (workshops, events, corgis)
- Discuss finding books & chapters in the main catalog.
- Discuss finding articles in key databases.
- Discuss how to evaluate sources.
- Who wrote it? When & where was it published? Is the work scholarly and/or peer reviewed? What IS peer review?
Ultimately, the goal is to make you generally familiar & comfortable with the library and provide a sense of how library resources work.
Most fundamentally, the aim is to provide the skills needed for this course's final assignment, which requires you to find & list three external sources