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What topics and sessions can librarians and faculty at Springfield College offer to students?
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Request This Session!

If you would like a librarian to lead this session:

Email Chris and request this session!

Or

Contact your department's liaison!

 

ACRL Standards Covered

2.2 Students will be able to describe the organizational structure of library databases, and the difference between a keyword search and a subject or author search.

 

2.3 Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of what a controlled vocabulary is and why it is used.

 

2.4 Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of Boolean logic and term truncation.

 

See all standards on the Springfield College Matrix for Information Literacy

 
 

Content Covered

This advanced session will show students how to make use of our online databases' more advanced features. Content may include but is not limited to:

  • Subject/thesaurus searching
  • Effective use of wildcards and truncation
  • Using and searching cited references

 

Running time: 20-40min.

 

Online Resources

If you have a resource you would like to suggest, please let us know!

 

Liaison Librarian

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