Blog reflection #8

The important thing to remember about others with their research is to not complete the research yourself. A library patron should leave the reference desk informed and better skilled. Hopefully excited about the thoughts of continuing their research on their own, using only verifiable and reliable sites.

I researched some of the larger college and university library websites for information about their library classes, workshops and tutorials. So much of this information for the Loyola Marymount, UCLA and USC libraries is available on-line and some of it is even open to the public.

Loyola Marymount’s Van Der Ahe Library has an excellent site that is mainly for students and professors at the college.  Some material is available to the public. This includes PDF forms, information about Plagiarism and even podcasts about the facility.

 UCLA’s  Library site has an Information Literacy Program that includes a course titled “Fiat Lux: How to Stop Just Googling… and Find the Really Good Stuff!” Sound familiar? The site for this information is: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/service/6342.cfm

USC is my favorite library site. http://www.usc.edu/libraries/about/reference/tutorials/Tutorials are available to the public; they have audio and video available and include  definitions and descriptions of different reference materials.