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Phil 150: Introduction to Reality (Spring 2023)

Goals

  • 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, resources, events, corgis)
  • Discuss finding articles in key databases.
    • Why use subject 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, provide a sense of how library resources work, and most fundamentally provide the skills needed for this course's final assignment.