LBSC 103 for Social Work, Fall 2009
Introduction: What is Information Literacy?
- Information
Competencies for Social Work Students (ACRL EBSS site)
- Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (ACRL 2000)
The Research Process:
Tutorials and Guides:- Research 101 tutorial - University of Washington Libraries
- Searchpath tutorials - Scarborough Library
- Social Work Resources and Research Guide - USC Libraries. Links to finding books, journal articles, statistics, and tests and measurements. See also Randall Information Center Research Gateway for the USC School of Social Work. Has additional help on how to find Social Work databases, how to find full-text articles, using APA style, tutorials and links for conducing Evidence-Based Practice, etc.
- Social Welfare: A Guide to Information Sources - SUNY Albany University Libraries. Links to background information, definitions and terms, books, indexes and databases, Internet sources, statistics, legal information, and directory information.
- Social Work Library Instruction Research Guide - UNC Charlotte Library. Links for associations, databases, government documents, legal resources, encyclopedias, statistics and data sets, mapping applications, etc.
- Social Work: Pew Learning Center and Ellison Library - Warren Wilson College. Links to web resources, web site evaluation, recognizing and avoiding plagiarism, "professional links for Social Workers", and a nice list of assignments for a variety of classes in their curriculum.
- Social Work/Social Welfare Committee Resources (ACRL EBSS) - has links to "Human Service Organizations" Directory, Information Competencies for Social Work Students (U of Mich), Reference Sources, Social Work Selector's Toolbox, and Webliography categorized listing of resources on social work subjects.
- Social Work Subject Guide - Syracuse University Library. Links to finding articles, tests and measurements, statistics, licensing exam study guides, websites, encyclopedias, etc.
- Social Work Virtual Library - University of Houston Libraries. How to search for books, journal articles, web sites, etc. Has tutorials on using Library resources and APA style.
- WISPR: Workshop on the Information Search Process for Research
- Developing a Research Question: a Model for the Process of Informational Research - Trinity Western University (Canada). Captivate tutorial (and also PDF version) that explains the difference between just gathering information (and re-packaging it) and developing an actual research question. Has specific application to Social Science disciplines. Their tutorial on "Pre-research strategies" outlines the use of print and online subject encyclopedias for finding overviews and background material. We would cover Encyclopedia of Social Work, of course, as well as other subject encyclopedias.
- Answer sites: Answers.com | ChaCha | Yahoo! Answers | WikiAnswers.com
- Refdesk
- ResourceShelf.com and Docuticker
Terminology: dictionaries -
- Glossary of Basic Library Terms
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - many terms have sound files for pronunciation
- ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
- OED: Oxford English Dictionary
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedia of Social Work - newest is online, older editions are in Ref collection
- Encyclopedias listed at Lii.org
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Wikipedia
Books:
- Amazon.com
- Google Book Search
- LC call number system - slide show and interactive quiz
- Library of Congress Classification Outline
- How to read call numbers in an academic library - USG/Galileo system.
- Library of Congress online catalog
- New Social Worker Online: the place for social workers on the Net - career/job info, blog, books, discussion forums, etc. May use this site for book (professional reading) lecture
- Scarborough Library Online Catalog
- WorldCat - free version | WorldCat - subscription version. Note: WorldCat has a new citation feature for APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian styles
Magazines and Journals:
- Boolean Search Tips - Lake-Sumter Community College Library
- Google Scholar
- Scarborough Library home page has links to EBSCOhost and other subscription databases
- Magazine publishing history - from Encyclopedia Britannica
- Scholarly Journals and Popular Magazines.... know the difference? - video from CCSU (Central Connecticut State University)
- Scholarly Journals or Popular Magazines - New Mexico State University Libraries
- Social Work journals - Social Work Education. Available full-text in EBSCO ASC from 1999 to present with 1-year embargo. and Journal of Social Work Education from Findarticles.com. Also available full-text in EBSCO ASC from 1990-present.
- Types of Articles: Popular, Professional/Trade, and Scholarly/Peer Reviewed/Refereed - Randall Library, UNC-Wilmington
- Academic publishing and journals - Wikipedia entry [may open in new window or tab]
Citing Sources:
Free tools/software to format citations (compare to RefWorks):- BibMe - free citation software for MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian
- Citation Machine
- CiteULike - free online service for organizing academic papers
- Citing Your Sources tutorial - Eastern Washington University
- EasyBib - free citation software
- KnightCite Citation Service - Calvin College
- OttoBib - free citation software
- Zotero - free with Mozilla Firefox
- APA Formatting and Style Guide - the OWL at Purdue
- APA Exposed: Online Tutorial - Harvard Graduate School of Education.
- Basics of APA Style tutorial - APA website
- Plagiarism Tutorial - San Jose State University Library
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing - the OWL at Purdue University
- RefWorks
- Synthesis: Using the Work of Others - University of Maine at Farmington Writing Center and Mantor Library
- Why students plagiarize - University of Alberta Libraries
Evaluating Sources:
- Chucking the Checklist: a Contextual Approach to Teaching Undergraduates Web-site Evaluation - Marc Meola [Required Reading]
- Evaluating Information - Virginia Tech
- Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - Johns Hopkins University Libraries
- Evaluating Web Content - University Libraries, SUNY Albany. How to evaluate Web sites, free research sites, document repositories, blogs and wikis, social networking sites, social bookmarks, and multimedia
- Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - UC Berkeley
- FactCheckED: Seeing Through the Spin - Annenberg Classroom Project
- Feline Reactions to Bearded Men - (web page evaluation)
- Hoax sites - use for in-class activity
- How Credible is Your Information: Tips for evaluating web sites - CCSU Reference Librarian, Nicholas Tomaiuolo, provides tips for finding websites that are appropriate for use in collegiate-level research.
- How to Evaluate Information on the Web - Widener University tutorial
- Postmodernism Generator - website that generates random fake essays; they sound academic, but are completely computer-generated
Preservation issues:
- The Deep Web - Laura Cohen, SUNY Albany [Required Reading]
- In Digital Age, Federal Files Blip Into Oblivion - NY Times article discussing loss of electronic records due to budget, time, etc.
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine. See also their Archive-It.org collections
- Invisible Web tutorial - UC Berkeley Library [Required Reading]
- Meeting the Challenge: Saving the World Wide Web - Library of Congress. See also Web Capture, a Library of Congress initiative to catalog and preserve Web sites. Have developed thematic sites such as Hurrican Katrina, 9/11 Terrorist attacks, Iraq War 2003, Papal Transition, Election 2004, Crisis in Darfur, etc.
Applying what we've learned....
Topics include:
- Government documents and web sites relating to policies and programs
- finding statistics
- locating resources from organizations and associations
Links not yet categorized...
- Mapping Out and Writing a Critical Literature Review - Harvard Graduate School of Education Library
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Meta-Cognitive Analysis: An Alternative to Literature Reviews and Meta-Analysis for the Sciences and the Arts.
Journal article by Joel C. Snell, Mitchell Marsh; Education, Vol. 124, 2003
- Conducting a Literature Review in Education and the Behavioral Sciences - Adelphia University Libraries (a PRIMO tutorial)
- Recognition of Excellence in Aging Research - U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging committee report
- AgeLine at AARP site - free until September 30th
- American FactFinder - US Census Bureau database. Excellent starting point for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
- Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
- Expenditures on Children by Families, 2008 - Also known as the "cost of raising a child" report. Since 1960, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided estimates of expenditures on children from birth through age 17. This technical report presents the most recent estimates for husband-wife and single-parent families using data from the 2005-06 Consumer Expenditure Survey, updated to 2008 dollars using the Consumer Price Index.
- Facts and Findings about Foreclosures, Families, and Communities - The Urban Institute
- Foreclosures Lead to Homelessness for Many, Joint Report Finds - Nearly 80% of homeless service and advocacy agencies report that at least some of their clients became homeless as a result of a foreclosure, and one in five estimate that more than 40% of their clients became homeless because of a foreclosure. These data are among the results of a nationwide survey of local homeless providers conducted by national housing and homeless organizations and released as a joint report by the National Coalition for the Homeless, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, and other national organizations.
- Google Fusion tables - import and visualize table data online. Use their data sets or upload your own small or large data sets from spreadsheets or CSV files. Can then visualize your data on maps, timelines and charts. Use this for Statistics discussion?
- Government Information Research Guide - Washington University Libraries (St. Louis). Finding articles, books, websites, legislative histories including guide on "Following the Money", Census, citing government sources, etc. Another good site for gov docs/statistics info for class
- Landscape of Recession: Unemployment and Safety Net Services acroos urban and suburban America - Brookings Institution, July 2009.
- LLSDC (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.) Legislative Source Book - links to a variety of finding guides pertaining to gov docs, researching legislation, etc. Includes section titled "United States Statutes and the United States Code Historical Outlines, Notes, Lists, Tables, and Sources" which has finding guides related to how to use US Code and Statutes at Large, finding older public laws, why they were developed, etc.
- PILOTS database - largest database of publications on PTSD
- Policy Researcher Tutorial - University of Michigan Library. Uses Libguides software and shows how to look for hearings, legislative histories, using US Code, how to find state and local laws, how to identify a known federal program (www.grants.gov), finding statistics, and how to use locate pending legislation, that is accessing "News alerts" of non-profit organizations which are good sources for bills that are directly related to their mission. Advocacy organizations are especially helpful for policy issues. Their primary goal is to affect social change in the direction of their values. They want to persuade YOU! Useful features of legitimate advocacy web sites are identification of coalitions and other stakeholders involved in an issue; tracking pending legislation relevant to their interests; and fostering political debate. They often make it convenient for you to write your public officials. This site will be very useful for class discussions of gov docs and finding statistics
- POPLINE - (POPulation information onLINE), the world's largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID). POPLINE contains nearly 360,000 records and has been maintained since 1973 by the INFO Project (formerly Population Information Program). The majority of items are published from 1970 to the present, however, there are selected citations dating back to 1827. The database adds 12,000 records annually and is updated every Monday.
- Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders - Children's Bureau, ICF International, 2009
- Review of Defects in VA’s Computerized Patient Record System Version 27 and Associated Quality of Care Issues
- Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources - CRS Report
- 2010 Census: A New Portrait of America - informational video explains how communities benefit from Census Bureau data collection efforts. Testimonials describe the importance of a complete count and why the 2010 Census will be the most important count in our nation's history. Running time 3:23 minutes.
- West Virginia Health and Social Services
- West Virginia Legislature web site - links to WV Code, House and Senate bills, etc.