ELibrary Session: Getting plugged into the library

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E-Library SessionGetting plugged into the
library

• www.library.ubc.ca

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Wondering why you need to be here?
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Learn about resources for teaching!
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Get to know us!

• Hi my name is
• Jo-Anne Naslund
• joanne.naslund_at_ubc.ca
• edlib_at_interchange.ubc.ca

Thanks to the ESA we have a subscription to the
Sun Province !
Education Library Hours Mon-Thu 8 am 9
pm Fri 8 am 5 pm Sat Sun 12 - 5
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Find us on the web
http//www.library.ubc.ca
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Set up VPN VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK
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Use your Campus Wide Login
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Resources for Teaching

• What kind of information do you think you will
  need?
• What are some problems you might encounter in
  finding or working with the information?

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Use One Search 1 (8 min.)

• You would like to . . .
• find a science textbook for Grade 8s
• investigate the scholarship of Brent Davis
• find Britzmans book Practice makes Practice

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Questions

• What information were you able to find?
• What problems did you encounter?

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Tips

• Textbooks texts science grade 8search the
  library site.
• Search a name Brent Davis
• Can go directly to the catalogue and do a keyword
  search.
• Britzman and practice

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Find this article (3 minutes)

• Intrator, S.M.(2004). The Engaged classroom.
  Educational Leadership, 62 (1), 20-24. Retrieved
  August 29, 2007 from Academic Search Premier.

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Questions

• What information were you able to find?
• What problems did you encounter?

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the engaged classroom
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UBC eLink
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Find journal articles (8 min)

• You want to locate journal articles about the
  importance of classroom environment on the way
  adolescents learn.

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Questions

• How was the experience?
• What information were you able to find (general)?
  
• What problems did you encounter?

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Problems
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Education Databases (Quick Set)
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Top Databases in Education
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• The Red Book Online

provides immediate access to detailed
descriptions of over 4,200 agency listings
offering a variety of services
. . . the most complete online guide to
community, social and government agencies and
services across the Lower Mainland.
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E-ResourcesE-books
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Citation Style -- APA

• Citing an electronic articleKappers, E. J.,
  Veerman, J.W. (1995). Family environment of
  young adolescents with dyslexia.
  Dyslexia,1(2),108-120. Retrieved July 3, 2007
  from Academic Search Premier.

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RefWorks

• Need to manage
• references?
• Locate under E-Resources

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