Bowling Green State University
Project: Orientation
to Academic Libraries through Distance Education
Audience: College bound high school students
Scope: In cooperation with our area educational technology agency, Northwest
Ohio Educational Technology (NWOET), distance sessions are being provided to
several high school groups who are not able to make a campus visit because of
budget cuts. The content is not assignment specific. The same session is conducted
for each school and was developed with input from several school library media
specialists. The sessions have mostly been offered to sections of English courses
and all sessions have had the teacher and school library media specialist present.
The content is divided into four different modules:
1.) the physical differences between school, public, and academic libraries
(multiple libraries, multiple services points, journal collections, different
call number system, reserves)
2.) How information is organized (freely available information, fee-based information)
3.) Basic search concepts in online environments (keywords vs. subject headings,
knowing how to talk to a database)
4.) Mistakes to avoid making as a first year researcher (procrastination, plagiarism)
The content used during
the distance sessions has been converted into streamed digital videos and is
freely accessible via the web.
Links to sources:
Pathways to
Academic Libraries (P.A.L.)
Ohio Educational Technology Agencies
Project coordinator:
Colleen Boff, First Year Experience Librarian
419.372.7901
cboff@bgnet.bgsu.edu
