Exercising Research Skills: An Information Literacy Boot Camp for Religious Studies Graduate Assistants

Instructional librarians at the University of Dayton collaborated with a religious studies graduate program to offer a three-day information literacy workshop, or "boot camp," to the program's graduate research assistants. The graduate program had found that the assistants' resea...

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Published in:Journal of religious and theological information
Authors: Shreffler, Stephanie (Author) ; Gauder, Heidi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2018]
In: Journal of religious and theological information
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
FB Theological education
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B Religious Studies
B research skills
B information literacy
B Graduate assistants
B library collaboration
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:Instructional librarians at the University of Dayton collaborated with a religious studies graduate program to offer a three-day information literacy workshop, or "boot camp," to the program's graduate research assistants. The graduate program had found that the assistants' research skills did not meet the expectations of their faculty mentors, and the workshop sought to address these deficiencies. With input from the religious studies faculty, the workshop focused on catalog and database searching, Boolean logic, primary sources, and the Chicago citation style. The librarians incorporated active learning exercises into each workshop session. Assessment of the workshop suggested that the assistants gained confidence in these information literacy skills. Feedback from faculty also indicated that the assistants' research skills had improved.
ISSN:1528-6924
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religious and theological information
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2018.1467821