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Tips for Integrating Guide to ReferenceInto Your Teaching
December 3, 2009
Overview:
• What your students need to prepare them for reference work
• How Guide to Reference makes teaching sources easier
• How to sign up for free access for you and your students
• Q&A
Overview:
• Over 16,000 fully annotated entries describing essential print and web reference resources
• Selected by reference librarians and subject experts
Overview:
Traces its roots through several editions ofGuide to Reference Books back to 1902 and the publication of Kroeger's Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books: A Manual for Librarians, Teachers and Students
Changes in reference questions:
• fewer but “harder”
• not readily answerable through Google
• more require subject or content knowledge
With Guide to Reference, your students can:
• learn specific sources
• learn the range of sources available
• compare sources for content and ease of use
Other uses of Guide to Reference:
• staff training
• reference collection development
• instruction and workshop
• pinpoint sources quickly during refQs
Big changes in online Guide to Reference:
• many online sources, both free and licensed
• fewer bibliographies
• lesser-used items eliminated; keep your 11th edition
Interactive features:Add Personal or Global Notes
• enhance the annotations
• compare sources
• promote your favorites
Interactive features:Create Global or Personal Lists
• link sources for a class project
• link sources useful for particular types of questions
• create your own mini-Guide
LIS Usage Overview:
• A lot of interest in free LIS access
• 49 institutions with LIS schools have asked about free LIS access
• 44 have set up free LIS access
LIS Ways to Access:
• 3 institutions are providing free LIS access through Blackboard
• Many more are using institutional and individual trial accounts for free LIS access
LIS Faculty Use:
• 23 LIS faculty have self-identified as using free LIS access
• All of them are using Guide to Reference for reference and collection development courses, introductory and advanced
Free LIS Access vs. Subscription:
• 22 institutions using free LIS access are also subscribers to Guide to Reference
• 10 institutions with free LIS access are considering a subscription
• 3 institutions decided to subscribe after using free LIS access
Questions about Guide to Reference?Future webinar topics to suggest?
Contact us at…
Sign up to use Guide to Referencefor free in your LIS course:
www.guidetoreference.organd click the “For LIS Programs” button
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