week twelve (4/6 - 4/10)

I finished teaching Information Literature sessions for English 1B last week. From this week, I am concentrating on Collection Development (CD) Project and RefWorks Project.

I am assisting Robert Bruce and Diana Wu for their next year collection for Computer Science and Corpor. Finance Majors. At the same time, I am creating RefWorks Handout and online tutorial for undergraduate students.

Monday (4/6)

I took a couple of hours on RefWorks and figure out how to import book reference text file to RefWorks because SJLibrary catalog doesn't provide importing reference to RefWorks. Therefore, users have to manually import references andit is the most difficulty part on RefWorks. In addition, I have been asking other librarians and finally we figured out.

The same day, I was reviewing books in different catalogs, such as SJLibrary catalog, Link+, and CSU union catalog, in Computer Science major. In addition, I tried to search new books with research/professional levels on Gobi.

Tuesday (4/7)
Based on yesterday's study on RefWorks, I started creating the handout, which contains accessing on campus and off campus, sign-up, organizing folders, importing references, creating bibliography and exporting, and troubleshooting. I asked reference librarian to review my first draft. After it, I sent the handout to Toby and waited for her feedback.

Week eleven (3/30-4/3)

This is the last week of my teaching intern and I will teach three session.
Monday 3/30
When I was teaching this session, the professor seemed confused. First, she asked me to use CQ Researcher, which I planed to use. In fact, I seperated students into four groups and each had four or five students. Therefore, each group used different database for their researches. There were CQ Researcher, Catalog, Academic Research Premier, and Oppoing Viewpoints Resource Center. However, the professor wanted them only use CQ Researcher. Indeed, students should not only use one database for their researches. Therefore, I had to tell them again and agin to only use the database I assigned.

I don't know why the professor requires students to use only one database and it seems she doesn't know why I assigned different databases to her students. There must be some lack of communication; however, I decide to ask students do as I planed. This session is not only for researching for English 1B; it is also an opportunity freshmen to learn how to do academic research paper and use library services.

Thursday (4/2)
I had two sessions. The earlier on stared at 7:30 am and the professor didn't tell his students to meet at library, neither told them the topic. Therefore, there were only eight students show out and the professor took times to talk about the topic and the background. I couldn't start the session till 8am. Because I lost 30 mintues, I had to rush to pass information and asked students to try on their own. Again, because we didn't have enough time for the whole session, students didn't get enough time to practice.

The second session was much better. Students knew their topics and started a little bit. In addition, the professor was there to ask questions and clarify to her students. With her help, it was one of the most successful session I had.

Week Ten (3/-23 - 3/27)

It is Spring Break and I go to Grand Canyon and Fire of Valley with my family.
It was a great trip.