Depository

UNRAVEL THE LIBRARY WORKSHOP MATERIALS

• Current and past materials are now available on a separate page.
• * Article about the Instructional Design Process for the Unravel series

EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT TOOLS

• Reaction evaluation
• Learning evaluation for Unravel 2
• Reaction evaluation developed for Basic MNCAT Workshops
• Pre-Class assessment - to distribute and evaluate before your class or workshop. Developed by Dianne Legg

GAMES

• Library Jeopardy - Developed by Lynne Beck.

LESSON PLANS AND OUTLINES

• Course Structure blank form for structuring your class (from "Take a Ride on the Design Cycle" workshop)
• Basic MNCAT Workshop- lesson plan
. Developed by a design team.
• Lexis-Nexis Workshop - includes lesson plan, activities for use during the workshop, and handouts. Also use the Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Quick Reference Sheet. Developed by Kate McCready.
• Unravel the Research Process Workshops - see below

MISC

• Certificate of Completion (link removed - contact jveldof@umn.edu)
• Links for staff working with school visitors to the UL

POWERPOINT SLIDES

• Book or Article? Teaching how to search for a book or article in MNCAT. Developed by the Unravel 2 Design Team.
• General Orientation Slides. Developed by Lynne Beck and Kim Clarke
• LUMINA and Science and Engineering Library. Developed by Frank Elliot.
• RefWorks. Developed by Nancy Herther.
• Journal Citation Reports. Developed by Nancy Herther.
• Welcome to the Science and Engineering Library. Developed by Frank Elliot.

QUICKSTUDY TUTORIALS AND GUIDED EXERCISES

• Searching MLA (tutorial includes a guided exercise)
• Basic MNCAT Searching (guided exercise)
• Advanced MNCAT Searching (guided exercise)
• Searching Expanded Academic ASAP (guided exercise)
• Searching Lexis-Nexis Universe (guided exercise)
• Searching Alta-Vista (guided exercise)
• Searching Yahoo (guided exercise)
• Interpretating Statistics (guided exercise)

RESOURCES FOR WORKING WITH FACULTY

• General Resources:
  • Booklet: Faculty/Instructor Guide to the Libraries (2005-2006)
  • About Information Literacy: "Student Success in the 21st Century: Information Literacy, Key to the Information Society"
  • Web page for Orientation and Instruction geared to faculty and students.
  • Brochure: "Library Instructional Support for University of Minnesota Faculty and Instructors" in Publisher format - see Jerilyn for copies.
  • Handout for faculty: "Improving Student Research: What Reference Librarians Think Your Students Should Know" - Originally created by Malaika Grant. [updated version will be available soon]

• Assignment Related:
  • Assignment ideas to supplement QuickStudy
  • Handout for faculty: Designing assignments that can be effectively supported by the Libraries ("do's and don'ts")

SCREEN CAPTURES

• LUMINA Homepage (multiple screen shots in Word)
• MNCAT (multiple screen shots in Word - only ArticlesIndex screen is updated)
• Research QuickStart and QuickStudy (multiple screen shots in Word)
• Expanded Acadmic Index (multiple screen shots in Word)

TOURS

• 2004 Wilson Walking Tour
• Unravel 1 Workshop has a tour of Wilson.