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Undergraduate Women’s Studies Course:
Planning and delivering a library instruction session
Elisheba Muturi
April 15 2008
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Planning the instruction session• Communicate with the course instructor• Analyze assignment• Determine students’ information literacy level• Set session learning objectives based on course
and assignment objectives as well as ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards
• Identify appropriate resources• Create a lesson plan outline
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Planning the instruction session
• Provide handouts listing search strategy examples and summarizing resources
• Ensure follow-up eg. Close to the assignment deadline, set up a clinic in the lab on a few sessions where students who need help with searching and locating resources can come for assistance on a drop-in basis
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Learning objectives• Use the UBC subject guides as a starting point 2.3.b• For historical information, recognize the information gaps
and limitations of using Google as a starting point 2.3.b• Distinguish primary from secondary resources1.2.e• Understand the use of the catalogue to locate a variety
of resources and formats 2.2.e• Understand the role of indexes in finding information –
identify appropriate ones 2.3.b• Formulate a search strategy using relevant search terms
– controlled vocabulary and key words, using boolean logic and basic truncation 2.2.b, 2.2.c, 2.2.d
• Effectively search appropriate internet sources for experiences 2.3.b
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Sources• Subject page
• Background and overview
• Primary sources
• Databases:– Sociological perspective: sociological
abstracts– Gender: contemporary women’s issues– Psychology: Psychological abstracts
• Websites: Intute
• Search engines: Google, Technorati
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Search terms: key words and controlled vocabulary
• Subject headings• Key words
•immigrant women and (experience* or represent* or construct* or identit*) •women immigrant* and canad* •immigr* and women and employ* and canad* •chinese and immigr* and women and canad* •filipin* and immigr* and women and canad*
•Women immigrants – geographical place – aspect – publication type (biography or bibliography)•Women immigrants--Canada--Social conditions, •Women immigrants--Asia--Economic conditions. •Women immigrants--British Columbia—Biography •Women immigrants--Bibliography.
•Emigration and immigration•Chinese Canadian women•Filipino Canadian women
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Background/Overview sources• Catalogue keyword search for: women
AND (encyclopedia OR handbook? Dictionar? OR almanac?)
• Subject heading: Women's studies--Encyclopedias.
• Examples:– Encyclopedia of Women’s Studies HQ 115
E52 2001 – Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World
History (Online) – search for immigrant – overview article on immigrant labour
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Primary Sources
Catalogue: (diar? letter? autobio? correspondence? oral? Interview? experience? personal narrative?) AND (immigr? migr?) AND (wom?n)
Database:• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and
Oral Histories: Organized by – Nationality– Subjects eg. Women in workforce
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Database search strategyConcept# Synonyms
Experience* Represent* Perspective Identit* Construct*
immigrant Immigra* Migrant* emmigrat*
Refugee or asylum seeker
Aspect Economical (labour or work*)
Cultural Social Political
Geographical Country or province
#The concept of women is redundant in women’s studies databases
Some databases allow automatic stemming in the place of truncation
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Studies on Women and Gender abstracts
( immigrant+ OR refugee+ ) AND ( experience+ OR perspective+ OR representation+ OR construction+ OR identity+ ) – retrieves 42
Automatically searches for variants (hence no need to truncate) when “stemming” is selected
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Women’s studies international
( immigrant OR refugee ) AND ( experience OR perspective OR representation OR construction OR identity) - 2899 (key words - too many hits)TX ( Immigrant experience OR Immigrant women's attitudes ) and TX ( Migrant women OR refugee women ) - 29 (descriptors – manageable recall)
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Contemporary Women’s Issues
1) Immigrant* AND experience (keywords alone with no limits) - 1346
2) experience* OR perspective OR represent* OR construct* OR identit* (keywords)
immigrants and refugees AND images of women (subject areas) – 19
Additional limits - country
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Sociological abstracts
DE=(wom*n or females) and DE=(immigr* or refugee or migrant*) and AB=(experience* or perspective* or (identit* or represent* or construct*)) and DE=(work* or lab*r or employ*) and (filipina or philipines) – 62
For sociological perspective, it’s useful to add a topic (eg. Work) and geographical perspective
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Psychinfo
SU ( experiences OR events ) and SU females and SU ( immigration OR refugees OR migrants ) subject headings only to manage recall - 46
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Internet Sources: Intute
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Basic search – immigrant women experiences – 525 000
Smarter search ~women ~immigr ~experience OR ~represent OR ~identity OR ~construction, limit to .edu domain: 59 600
Google Scholar search – 1740
To search for primary documents - "primary documents" women immigrants
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Blogs• Blogs are today’s online diaries and can be
useful for locating narratives• Blog search engine: Technorati – locates good
blogs on immigrants in general not immigrant women eg immigration watchdog, A Canada Immigrant’s Blog
• Very basic search strategy: ~women ~immigrant• Would women immigrants typically share their
stories through blogs?
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Lesson plan elements
• Intro
• Bridge-in (from the known to the unknown)
• Objectives
• Pretest
• Participatory and active learning activities
• Post-test