Learning Plan for Student Librarians at Woodward

From UBC Wiki

Daily Routine:

  • Say hello to support staff. Sign-in for payroll.
  • Open Desk Tracker.
  • Check wd.ref@ubc.ca for questions.
  • Check blog.
  • Work on learning plan.
  • Support staff will ask you to help as needed.
  • Other projects will come your way!
  • Your feet have wings ...


Basics -- we think support staff have/will have expertise in these areas (ask Katherine Hill)

  • Course Reserve
  • Health & Safety - do this in person
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • Document Delivery - include hospital sites
  • Distance students
  • Memorial Room
  • Signing for posters
  • Signing out library use only volumes


Questions for the User
LAB

  • Is this for a course? Course number? (check for a course page)
  • Is this for your thesis/dissertation? Which department? Who are you working with (advisor)?
  • Is this for a grant?
  • Are you a distance student?
  • Are you off-campus at a hospital?
  • Which browser are you using?

Common courses -- what did we teach the students?

  • Biology 140
  • Applied Science 201 - EB 30 minutes
  • Food Nutrition Health 398



Tools/Databases/Websites that you should know about:

  • RefWorks
  • cIRcle - EB
  • Summon - EB
  • Catalogue - EB
  • Copyright at UBC
  • Open Access/ Scholarly Communication
  • EndNote Web/Zotero/EndNote/LaTeX/Mendeley ???
  • Pubmed


  • WorldCat - EB
  • Ulrich's - EB (30 minutes)
  • Google
  • Google Scholar - EB
  • Google Books
  • HathiTrust
  • Internet Archive


Special Topics -- Is there a Libguide? -- could be a libguide from another library

  • Systematic Reviews
  • PICO
  • Patents - covered
  • Standards - covered
  • Licensing (health professions)
  • Impact Factor - Journal Citation Reports - covered by ST
  • Theses
  • Grey Literature
  • Current Awareness Tools
  • EBOOKS ???


Platforms - all covered

  • OvidSP
  • Engineering Village
  • Proquest
  • Ebsco & Ebsco Health
  • Web of Science
  • CAB Direct
  • SciFinder


Concepts - CB

  • Controlled Vocabulary
  • Thesaurus
  • Tree
  • Explode
  • Focus
  • keywords
  • Truncation, proximity


Databases by Subjects -- do the Libguides help?

  • Health - UE & CB
  • Natural Sciences - ST & KM
  • Physical Sciences - KL & EB
  • Engineering - KL & EB

Training for Projects

  • Libguides - Paige
  • Collaborate - Lee Ann to cover in part
  • Gobi lists
  • Doody's lists
  • Connect




Learning Objects

http://guides.library.ubc.ca/woodward_publications