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Evaluating Sources - Laguardia Cc Library, Ian Mcdermott Mar 2022

Evaluating Sources - Laguardia Cc Library, Ian Mcdermott

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This presentation is used with students for evaluating sources. It covers the differences between popular, scholarly, and news articles. The information cycle is used to inform students about how and why topics are covered in different publications. The presentation ends with an activity where students read a snippet from a publication and are asked to guess the source.


Health Sciences First Year Seminar Library Lesson Plan (Hsf90), Ian Mcdermott Jan 2022

Health Sciences First Year Seminar Library Lesson Plan (Hsf90), Ian Mcdermott

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This lesson plan, and accompanying slides, is for the library instruction session for HSF90, LaGuardia Community College's health sciences first year seminar course. The lesson details the importance of college-level research for students who will enter various health sciences professions. The lesson also covers the importance of citation in academic research, covering what to cite and how to do it using library subscription databases.


Research In The Digital Age, Sarah B. Cohn Jan 2022

Research In The Digital Age, Sarah B. Cohn

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Syllabus for LIB 10000: Research in the Digital Age. Spring 2022.