CCC Library Services
English 101
Warning: this presentation contains pictures of cats.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Library Overview
Accessing CCC library resources, including Cline
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Why librarians…?
Information literacy
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Information literacy
Why any of this matters
04
Practical Exercises
Navigating CCC’s online library
The wonders of CCC Library services
CCC Online Library
NAU Cline Library
Luke the Librarian
Cline Library
CCC Students have full building access:
CCC Online Library
Accessible from anywhere with an internet connection: log in with your COMET ID
Databases need your help!
You can’t just ask them a question. They’re kind of stupid in that way.
What would happen if you searched for all these words?
What to highways prevent
are keep and accidents?
the elk do
best off those
ways Arizona methods
Databases need your help!
You can’t just ask them a question. They’re kind of stupid in that way.
What would happen if you searched for all these words?
What to Highways prevent
are keep and accidents?
the elk do
best off those
ways Arizona methods
How to get help
Talking to a librarian and using the library can increase student success and boost student learning! (see Academic Library Impact on Student Learning and Success.)
Luke.Owens@coconino.edu
Text your Librarian:
928-235-6324
Nursing Library Guide:
https://libraryguides.nau.edu/ccc-nursing
Cats
So…
Let’s talk about librarians for a second
Information Literacy
Information literacy is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning.
Information Sources
What are you looking for in a source? How do you know what you’re looking for?
What’s a scholarly source?
Three simple-ish criteria:
What’s a scholarly source?
What’s a scholarly source?
What’s a scholarly source?
What’s a scholarly source?
Scholarly Journal Articles
What’s NOT a scholarly source?
Are non-scholarly sources just terrible?
Non-Scholarly Journal Articles (News/General Interest)
Popular Magazines
We need more practice
a new study from Stanford researchers that evaluated students' ability to assess information sources and described the results as "dismaying," "bleak" and "[a] threat to democracy."
Let’s try it!
Is this website a reliable source for my paper on minimum wage policy?
New State Wage Hikes Could Kill Roughly 212K Jobs
Why or why not?
How did you go about figuring this out?
Lateral Reading
Wait, hang on: can I use Wikipedia, or what?
Yes, but only for certain things.
Wikipedia is great for:
SIFT your web sources and social media!
Dog Island and Tree Octopus
Research Process
It isn’t their fault, but students often approach research as Data—>Synthesis.
What college teachers want, however, is something more like…
Research Question→ Data→ Data Synthesis→ Analysis based on question→ Information or Knowledge→ Conclusions/Recommendations
Using Google? Think like a fact checker
Targeted Googling (site:azdailysun.com)
Find credible sources: always investigate/Google the source
Read broadly on the same subject (lateral research)
Using Google? Think like a fact checker
Get to know specific sources that are generally reliable
CTRL-F
Research is learning, not source shopping
Beware of Statistics Online
If you don’t know a source, Google it
Watch for images, tables, etc. not in their original context
Text Talkback Paper - Source Ideas
Articles to Disagree with
Opinion pieces (google search: opinion gas prices)
Click on “Gale’s Topics of Interest” in the search box on the library page
We’ve got a Library Guide for this:
Reliable sources to back up your arguments
Library website: www.coconino.edu/library
Search box: Start Research, Find Books, or Find Articles
Reliable & credible online journalism (think major, traditional news outlets: Reuters, AP, NYTimes, NPR, Washington Post)
Text Talkback Paper - Source Ideas
Articles to Disagree with
Opinion pieces (google search: opinion gas prices)
Opposing Viewpoints: Click on “Gale’s Topics of Interest” in the search box on the library page; find a topic; limit the results to “Viewpoints”
We’ve got a Library Guide for this:
Reliable sources to back up your arguments
Opposing Viewpoints: Use other limiters (news, magazines, reference, academic articles)
Reliable & credible online journalism (think major, traditional news outlets: Reuters, AP, NYTimes, NPR, Washington Post)
How to get help
Talking to a librarian and using the library can increase student success and boost student learning! (see Academic Library Impact on Student Learning and Success.)
Luke.Owens@coconino.edu
Text your Librarian:
928-235-6324
Library Database Exercise
Let’s practice using the Opposing Viewpoints database.
Load up the database homepage. Use any of the tools (search box, advanced search, Topics, etc.) to find
An opinionated article to analyze/talk back to (primary source)
A reliable source to support your thesis/analysis
What is ChatGPT?
Generative Artificial Intelligence
How it’s trained
What it can do
Educational context
Prompt: generate an image that expresses positive and negative feelings about the potential of generative artificial intelligence, humans and computers interacting in deep ways, how this can be creative and scary at the same time. Include humans and scary darkness of the future deepdreamgenerator.com
What is ChatGPT good for and not good for?
Remember, you'll always need to verify the information��What is it good for?
What is it not so good for?
ChatGPT Exercise
To prompt ChatGPT effectively, use this example:
Act as a professional registered nurse. I’m a nursing student struggling to understand the concepts in my [course]. Explain to me what [concept] means. [Add anything else that might help, like what you already understand and what you’re struggling with specifically].