Library Instruction

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Guest Lectures

Library faculty are available to provide custom information literacy and research skills instruction sessions to individual classes throughout the year.  Sessions usually run one hour and can be conducted in your classroom or in one of the library’s computer classrooms (At this time scheduling cannot be done though the Dominican online calendar. Please contact Lisa Wendell at lwendell@dominican.edu

  to schedule a session and a computer classroom).

Please submit a request for a guest lecture as early in the semester as possible.

• Request Instruction

Library Workshops

NEW! The APA and MLA Workshops are now available anytime, anywhere! Just click on the movies below (must have Flash Player 7 or above to view).

Librarians are available for in-person and email consultations. Please contact us at (415) 485-3252 or refdesk@dominican.edu

to arrange an appointment during library hours.

 

MLA Online Workshop

 

APA Online Workshop

 

RES 2000: Information and Research

 

RES 2000 is a one-unit information literacy course for first year students. It is designed to compliment their studies and give them the skills necessary for success in college and in their careers. The class is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on practice, and guided research assistance using the library’s print and electronic resources as well as the World Wide Web. While students gain experience with individual databases and search techniques, RES 2000 focuses on research as an ongoing process. The course emphasizes the need to be flexible, observant, and creative while looking for sources. Research is about discovering, not just finding.

Student Learning Outcomes General Education Student Learning Outcomes

 When a student has completed the General Education Program s/he will be able to demonstrate:

• An understanding of and the connection among selected liberal arts disciplines.
• The ability to access information and critically analyze, synthesize, and apply knowledge in written and oral form.
• The ability to express awareness of the aesthetic, moral, and spiritual dimension of existence.

 

RES 2000: Information and Research Student Learning Outcomes

Information & Research (RES 2000) is a one-unit required GE course designed to give students the information skills necessary to succeed in their studies at Dominican University of California. Typically students take RES 2000 sometime in their first three semesters. The main goals of RES2000 are for students to determine their information needs, to select and critically evaluate information resources, and to gain awareness of ethical information use. To achieve these goals by course end students will:

 

• Describe his/her information needs and build search strategies using keywords and subject terms;
• Identify and locate appropriate print and electronic resources to fulfill information needs;
• Evaluate both individual resources and search strategies for suitability in the context of university-level research;
• Indicate the sources of information through in-text and bibliographic citation, recognize and avoid plagiarism in quotations in paraphrasing, and gain an awareness of the barriers to information access.

Information Literacy Standards from the Association of College and Research Libraries: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm

 

Instruction Librarians

Anne Berger
(415) 257-0169
anne.berger@dominican.edu

Gary Gorka
(415) 482-3524
ggorka@dominican.edu

Michael Pujals
(415) 485-3254
michael.pujals@dominican.edu

Suzanne Roybal
(415)-257-0195
suzanne.roybal@dominican.edu

Alan Schut, Director of Cataloging and Collections
(415) 458-3703
schut@dominican.edu

Amy Whiteley
(415) 257-1329
awhiteley@dominican.edu