Online Databases & HSC students

Presented by Jenni Campbell-Watt Information Services Librarian Randwick City Library Service

Overview

• What are NSW libraries currently doing?

• ‘Selling’ the databases to HSC students

• Importance of Information Literacy for Generation Y & beyond

• Simplifying the Search Strategy

Invite them to come to you

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Outreach

You go to them…

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Key Teachers

• Identify the key teachers, teacher librarian, year coordinator

• Encourage communication & sharing of information

• Developing this relationship can lead to greater usage of online databases

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Teaching research skills

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How do I find the databases?

• Offer multiple entries to database links – by subject and title, through the HSC page

• Federated search engines such as Webfeat

• One login to access all databases

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E-Journal portal

Hornsby Library’s E-Journal Portal using Serials Solutions

City of Canterbury Library Online Databases Brochure

City of Canterbury Library Online Databases Brochure pg 2

Excerpt from Griffith City Library HSC Help Brochure

Excerpt from Griffith City Library HSC Help Brochure

Willoughby Library

HSC seminar

Sample of Willoughby Library’s HSC Resources Seminar Powerpoint

Parkes Shire Library HSC Brochure – page 1

Parkes Shire Library HSC Brochure - page 2

Holroyd City Council Library Students Brochure – databases page

Mid-Western Regional Council Library “Headspace” package

Hornsby Shire Library & Information Service Online Resources Brochure

Hornsby Shire Library & Information Service Online Resources

Brochure - otherside

Wyong Shire Council have created a bookmark

Would you like a database with that?

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The needs analysis or Reference Interview

• ..through a series of thought provoking, open-ended questions successful sales people assist their customers to uncover potential needs…

Would you like fries with that? Boe, J. Agency Sales, Dec 2008

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Born into a Web World

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But I’ll just Google it….

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Or ask Yahoo Answers…

Anyone can put anything on the web

• Information can be unreliable, inaccurate, inauthoritative, biased and not credible

• No review process on free internet

• Not time limit –can be out of date

• Can be changed without warning image reference:

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Misinformation the Internet

www.martinlutherking.org

Databases offer Quality Control

Search tips & tricks

1. KISS principle

2. Develop a search strategy

3. Key concepts & words

4. Boolean operators

5. Database defaults

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