Are your students pros at the topics covered in LC Seminars? There's always more to learn! Here are some additional topics librarians can teach in spring semesters:
- Considering scholarship as a conversation and empowering students to add their voices.
- Learning about multiple types of databases from very general (e.g. Academic Search Premier) to highly specialized (e.g. Hispanic American Periodicals Index).
- Optimizing the Zotero citation management program
- Identifying mainstream opinions, as well as alternative or underrepresented ones, within a given discipline.
- Research as a mode of inquiry requiring curiosity and an open mind.
- Becoming fluent in the jargon of one or more disciplines.
- Recognizing different categories of scholarly journal articles, such as review articles, meta-analyses, and case studies.
- Finding government documents and legal information sources.
- Finding and using archival resources, both at Hampshire and beyond, in person and online through digital collections.
- Zines & comics (often as a window into other conversations, such as copyright/copyleft, censorship, etc.)
- Thinking about information as a commodity that costs labor, time, and money to produce. Considerations of paywalls, subscriptions, open access, and Google, in this context.
- Using and citing high-quality images, sound and media files, accessing the Five College Museum Collections database and other image databases.
- Learning about visualization tools.
- And more!
