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This training series (additional chapters are uploaded continuously) supports students to orientate in the library, the stacks, and across the catalog. The first part of the training aims to introduce you, the library patron, to the library stacks and techniques of analog research. Two versions of the same presentation are available: a pdf (see link below) and the power point presentation with voice over (in either MP4 or ppt format) narrated by Rachel Zion from Access and Resource Services—upon request. At the end of the presentation there is a short quiz to check your knowledge.
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The course syllabus is a helpful resource as a roadmap to the course, to gain a first impression of the themes it discusses, and to identify sources relevant to the course curriculum and therefore to your written and oral assignments.
Read the titles of the different modules and weeks. Along with the course abstract and objectives, you will have a better understanding of what the course is about, what narrative(s) you will learn about throughout the semester. By reviewing the syllabus only, you will be able to answer at least four W questions: about who, what topics, subjects, and events taking place where and when the course will teach you. Each module and submodule will be relevant to the longer arch the course draws. Your assignments will also connect to the course curriculum.
All required and recommended readings form the intellectual landscape of the world into which the course introduces you. Check out the notes, bibliography, and index (if there is) to learn what sources the author used conducting the research and reaching their argument(s), Explore the index for keywords and subject headings to search additional resources in the library catalog whether you will have to develop a research paper or submit smaller assignments during the semester.
See the list of archives and primary resources often listed at the beginning of the book. Check out the pictures and figures that often are a reproduction of a primary source. Read the text to explore not only the author's argument, but also to learn how the author uses the primary source. Does the primary source help learn about the era, the people, the place examined in the book? Is the primary source an illustration of a certain idea, behavior, or ideology of the studied context? Does the primary source evidence a claim the author proves or refutes? Does the author present the claim in response to other authors? Can you learn from the notes and the bibliography which other authors the scholar is in dialogue with? Are there questions the author raises in connection with the primary source and leaves unanswered? Are there questions that you have while reading the book and would like to find an answer to them? Do you wonder why the author did not raise the question?
Assignments often include the terminology you should deploy in your work. The assignments often define the type of work you have to submit: an essay, a blogpost, a response paper. Some professors detail the various parts of the assignment. However, the library can offer you guides and handbooks to learn the content and formal requirements of a given assignment.