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Hello Everyone, I am lucky in that the Depart of the History of Art and Architecture always brings the grad students to the library as a part of their Departmental Orientation and I do my bit in the library using a Libguide, mentioned next. . The undergrads here only get an intro in the classroom when they have a writing assignment. They are now required to take a core course entitled "Foundations of Art History." The students are told they have to write a research paper. About a week later, the faculty member gives the students a list of "reference questions" that we worked on together. The students have difficulty with it, as we both know they will. Then I come to the class. I project the library's web site. And we go over the questions.... I then show them how to navigate the web site, including online catalog and why that is important rather than using Google. Also show them our LibGuide done for the course - which goes into the library catalog, journals (print and e form), etc. You can see it at: http://pitt.libguides.com/art_history_foundations The students then need to do a bibliography on their subject (examining a work of art in the Carnegie Museum of Art). I also advertise this to Art History faculty, saying they can put it on their CourseWeb sites, so students in all classes have easier access to it, if the faculty member takes this advice. I, after 28 years, have not been able to get the Studio Arts faculty to bring their students into the library. Well, many years ago, one faculty member did and she loved what I did for the class, but the students rarely return. For two reasons, I think: our stacks are closed, so they cannot browse!! And also, it's only an undergrad program and students themselves don't see the library as that important to them. I have also done a LibGuide for Studio Arts which I will greatly revise this year and include more about techniques as well as the business angle of things. This is only a beginning for them. I have advertised it to faculty, but am hoping to be invited to a faculty meeting where I can show the LibGuide to all of them. One faculty member is wowed by it, but I showed the LibGuide to him in my office, so he has actually seen it. This LibGuide is at: http://pitt.libguides.com/studioart Good luck! Ray Anne Lockard Bibliographer and Public Services Librarian Frick Fine Arts Library University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Voice-mail: 412-648-2410 E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> "A book should be a ball of light in one's hands." Ezra Pound From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kevin Mullen, Bookseller Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 10:31 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Library Instruction for Freshman Syvia- Get them into the library facility to begin with. Then do a comparative search on some topic (with which you've tested this approach with prior to their arrival). Maybe pick a second tier artist about whom not so much has been written. See what Google produces in a few pages for them. Then, take them to a physical book that might have been mentioned on some google entry. Show them the book, and how much more information it contains than the Google, and show them the Notes and the Bibliography. Let them handle it and feel it. Show them all the different references listed, and the different types of sources. Pick a periodical reference, and take them over to the Serials and show them that periodical, and find the reference. Do it slowly, and let them see all the other information that flows past their field of vision as you find the specific page. Let them grasp the serendipitous nature of "finding" information in little known or secondary references. It is all about engaging their brains, which are accustomed to instantaneous retrieval. It's about showing them (the now alternative) routes to information gathering and completing the whole descriptive picture of any topic. Fostering their Inquiring Mind and showing them results that are applicable to whatever they might be searching for. Making it fun and exciting and three dimensional, with lots of tactile interaction. Off to The Library, and Beyond the Keyboard! (as Buzz Lightyear might say) Cheers, Kevin Kevin Mullen, Bookseller Mullen Books, Inc. Libraries and Books Bought and Sold P.O. Box 472 Marietta, PA 17547 USA 717-618-0481 http://www.mullenbooks.com On 8/1/2011 6:34 PM, Work wrote: Hi All, I have been wrestling with an effective method of providing library instruction to our mandatory Freshman Seminar class - 140 students. In the past it has always been that the librarian visits the class and talks about the library in a very generic fashion. I followed this model last year (my first year at Montserrat) and found it very lacking and repetative since I also visit the Art History and English classes. I have made numerous suggestions for different approaches to library instruction for this class but they have all been shot down by the faculty who teach the freshman course. Does anyone have any ideas for how to best engage 140 freshman and resist the 'this is how it has always been done' inertia? How do you teach your intro. courses? 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