Introduction

Imagine if you had to learn everything from simply observing others and interacting with them directly. You would be confined to the few hundred people you interact with significantly during the course of your lifetime. Starting around 6000 years ago and at various places in the world indpendently, humans began writing their language. This allowed us to learn from people and places distant in time and space in a way that oral tradition alone does not allow. But even learning from writing would be dependent on which writings you happened to encounter during your life without an institution to collect and organize writings. The library developed as a systematic way to organize writings and help you discover them based on your interests rather than the happenstance of your life events. In this module, you will learn how our library at Parkside can enable your research, generally and specifically in this course, and meet our subject-specific librarian. 

Module Objectives

1. You will be able to obtain scholarly articles and books from the library.
2. You will be able to search for scholarly articles and books in a particular subject.
3. You will be able to distinguish primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.
4. You will be able to document sources of information in context appropriate to where you present information.

Module Structure

• Readings
  • Online Resources
    • Meet the Librarian
    • Should I Be Using Google or the Library Resources?
    • Inform Your Thinking — Search Smarter
• Reading Check
  • Check Your Library Reading
• Activities
  • Build Library Pages in Your Star Group
  • Discuss Library and Database Experiences with the Class
  • Discuss the Source Searching with Your Archaeoastronomy Group
  • Make Observations of the Sky for the Library Module
• Learning Check
  • Check Your Library Module Learning
• Reflection
  • Reflect on Library Module Time