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First Year Seminar: Welcome

This guide contains information for PALs to help with library research related assignments and curriculum planning.

How To Use This Guide

Use the tabs across the top of the page to navigate through the guide.  Some tabs may have drop-down lists.  Both the text in the tab and in the drop-down lists are hyperlinked.

Research & Critical Thinking

Learn about the importance of Critical Thinking and

Active Learning; and how they fit in with the notion of

Information Literacy.

Information Search Process

Learn about the Information Search Process: how

researchers do research, what kind of feelings you can

expect to have about writing a research paper,and what

you can do for your students should they struggle with a

research project.

Lesson Plans

These are pre-packaged, ready-to-use assignments and

activities you can incorporate into your classes to help

students learn about UTA Libraries, finding and searching

topics for their papers, evaluating and citing sources for

academic use, and more!

Your Library

You can find information here about 1) Central Library:

What is on each floor, how to use the online catalog,

and how to find books on the shelves; 2) your Librarians:

who they are and what they do.

Help Tab

You can find information about getting help throughout

the entire LibGuide, but this page is dedicated to 'Help'.

If you need to get a hold of your librarians,

please check here.

Feedback

 We strive to provide you with information that is up-to-date

and helpful in your classroom. Please give us feedback on

what you like, don't like, what is missing, what you can live

without. We will do our best to follow up on suggestions

asap. 

 

Librarian

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John Bayhi
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