Teaching Google Scholar

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Paige Alfonzo

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Paperback | 25 July 2016

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Teaching Google Scholar in your library instructional sessions can increase studentsâ information and digital literacy skills. Studentsâ familiarity with Google Scholarâs interface works to the instructorâs advantage and allows more time to address studentsâ information needs and teach foundational information literacy skills and less time teaching a new database with a less-intuitive database interface.

Teaching Google Scholar: A Practical Guide for Librarians will illustrate instructional methods and incorporate step-by-step guides and examples for teaching Google Scholar. It begins with providing you with essential background:

What Google Scholar isHow to set up Google Scholar using OpenURLHow to design Google Scholar instructional sessionsHow to incorporate active learning activities using Google Scholar
After reading it, you will be ready to teach students critical skills including how to:
Use specific Google Scholar search operatorsIncorporate search logicExtract citation data, generate citations, and save citations to Google's My Library and/or a citation management programUse Google Scholar tools- including âcited by,â âalerts,â âlibrary links,â and âlibrary searchâ
Google Scholar is a powerful research tool and will only become more popular in the coming years. Learning how to properly teach students how to utilize this search engine in their research will greatly benefit them in their college career and help promote life-long learning. Google Scholar instruction is a must in todayâs modern information literacy classroom.

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An incredibly valuable addition to the Practical Guides series, Alfonzo's Teaching Google Scholar is a must read for (actually) any librarian, but especially for those focusing on information literacy (academic, school and public libraries,) those involved in their own research as well as for any e-resource librarian seeking broad curated content to expand opportunities for resources for constituents. And although many librarians don't consider "scholarly" content their first priority, Scholar resources go far beyond more traditional scholarly materials and include thousands of resources, papers and reviews of materials appropriate for a broad audience. Finally, Alfonzo's inclusion of instructions for customizing use and information literacy curriculum and a particular emphasis on case law and patent content along with ways to use the discovery process for citation analysis make it particularly valuable. This should be required reading for those seeking expert information literacy competencies.

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