Tips for Integrating Guide to Reference Into Your Teaching December 3, 2009.

Tips for Integrating Guide to ReferenceInto Your Teaching

December 3, 2009

Overview:

• What your students need to prepare them for reference work

• How Guide to Reference makes teaching sources easier

• How to sign up for free access for you and your students

• Q&A

Overview:

• Over 16,000 fully annotated entries describing essential print and web reference resources

• Selected by reference librarians and subject experts

Overview:

Traces its roots through several editions ofGuide to Reference Books back to 1902 and the publication of Kroeger's Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books: A Manual for Librarians, Teachers and Students

Changes in reference questions:

• fewer but “harder”

• not readily answerable through Google

• more require subject or content knowledge

With Guide to Reference, your students can:

• learn specific sources

• learn the range of sources available

• compare sources for content and ease of use

Other uses of Guide to Reference:

• staff training

• reference collection development

• instruction and workshop

• pinpoint sources quickly during refQs

Big changes in online Guide to Reference:

• many online sources, both free and licensed

• fewer bibliographies

• lesser-used items eliminated; keep your 11th edition

Interactive features:Add Personal or Global Notes

• enhance the annotations

• compare sources

• promote your favorites

Interactive features:Create Global or Personal Lists

• link sources for a class project

• link sources useful for particular types of questions

• create your own mini-Guide

LIS Usage Overview:

• A lot of interest in free LIS access

• 49 institutions with LIS schools have asked about free LIS access

• 44 have set up free LIS access

LIS Ways to Access:

• 3 institutions are providing free LIS access through Blackboard

• Many more are using institutional and individual trial accounts for free LIS access

LIS Faculty Use:

• 23 LIS faculty have self-identified as using free LIS access

• All of them are using Guide to Reference for reference and collection development courses, introductory and advanced

Free LIS Access vs. Subscription:

• 22 institutions using free LIS access are also subscribers to Guide to Reference

• 10 institutions with free LIS access are considering a subscription

• 3 institutions decided to subscribe after using free LIS access

Setting up free LIS access toGuide to Reference is easy!

Contact us at…

guidetoreference@ala.org

Questions about Guide to Reference?Future webinar topics to suggest?

Contact us at…

guidetoreference@ala.org

Sign up to use Guide to Referencefor free in your LIS course:

www.guidetoreference.organd click the “For LIS Programs” button

-or-

guidetoreference@ala.org