The City College library will introduce a series of 90-minute virtual workshops beginning Oct. 17 to help students critically evaluate potential research sources.
According to the workshop’s developer, Jeffrey Karlsen, the virtual workshops will focus specifically on searching for sources within library databases, as well as focusing on differentiating between scholarly and unscholarly literature. Offered three times — Oct. 17 from 6:30-8 p.m., Nov. 2 from 7-8:30 p.m., and Nov. 18 from 11:30-1 p.m. — the workshops will also elaborate on how a library database is unlike an average search engine.
The workshops can be completed on any computer with an Internet connection, said Karlsen, and are designed to be completed at home, as opposed to school.
“That’s the best way to do it,” said Karlsen. “Students log into a kind of ‘virtual classroom’. You can also call it a webinar—if you’ve ever done a webinar, you know what to expect.”
The workshops are similar to Path to Information Literacy Online Tutorial (or PILOT), City College’s library’s information literacy tutorial. Much like Karlsen’s workshops, PILOT focuses on educating students on effectively utilizing library databases and critically evaluating research sources in six 60-minute modules.
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PILOT, which was developed by City College librarian Sue Chen, has been in use since fall 2009, and is used in schools all over the country.
Both the workshops and PILOT have students complete a quiz upon completion of the tutorial. PILOT’s quizzes give the students instant feedback and are automatically graded, whereas the workshops require time and patience.
“The quiz for these workshops has to be reviewed by a librarian,” said Karlsen. “A bit more work for us, but a lot fewer students use this option than PILOT so it’s worth it.”
For more information about the virtual workshops offered by the City College library, go to pilot.scc.losrios.edu
