>> This last think-aloud,
strategy number 5, just scope out other resources.
I'm going to use the Canvas page
as a guide to go through this last think-aloud because there's
so many things that the library has
besides digital databases that you can access.
I wanted to let you know about the people in the departments and
other resources within the library that might be useful towards your research.
First of all, we have library liaisons.
Library liaisons are each discipline has its own librarian.
So no matter what discipline you are in,
you will be able to find someone that can help you and you can click
the name to get to their e-mail and get help.
Another service within the library that doesn't report to the library,
but it's located in the library is the University Writing Centers.
We have two of them,
so there's an Undergraduate Writing Center,
and there is a Graduate Writing Center.
The Undergraduate Writing Center is on the second floor,
and the Graduate Writing Center is in Room 1180,
which is the graduate reading room.
Each one of these services has e-tutoring so that you can
submit your writing for assistance from the writing consultants.
It is located in the library,
but does not report to the library.
Subject guides are really helpful guides that are created by librarians.
For example, all of these topics there are guides for every discipline,
but there's also guides for,
like here's the one on children's books,
one on consumer health, one on copyright.
Here's one on fundamentals of academic authorship in the US,
and Allyson Mower is our copyright librarian.
Those are really helpful guides where the librarians have
put together resources that they think are the most valuable for you to have.
Some other things you can look at there,
there's a library guide for a literature review,
there's one for literature review in the health sciences.
The library does offer workshops
and we don't have anything posted here right now,
but we will be doing some online workshops coming up in the fall,
stay tuned for those.
Inter-library loan, this is my favorite place.
Don't ever pay for an article through inter-library loan,
if you can't find a full-text article that you need for your research.
You log on with your unit
and then fill out the form with what you're looking for,
and they will help you find it for free.
Suggest a purchase and media.
If you're teaching and you need media for your class,
you can order it through this form,
you just log in with your unit.
Also suggest a purchase if there's a book that you find that you
think would really benefit the library collection,
you can also request a purchase.
During these times of COVID that's really hard to do,
but that is a good thing.
We do have a library guide
for getting additional books during COVID if you're also interested in that.
Special collections and digital media collections have primary resources,
this is the digital library collection.
They have some really interesting collections, photos,
they're doing a Utah COVID collection,
there's a feature digital exhibit on
a Salt Lake City-based newspaper that was published from 1872-1914.
There's a lot of really good primary resources, Sanborn Fire Maps,
or all the old fire maps from 1867 into the early 20th century.
These resources, depending on what your research topic is,
you may be able to find some interesting things.
We have a Ski Archive,
there's an archive of Topaz,
which was the Japanese internment camp.
There's some really new topics and you
should go through and take a look at those.
We also have a government documents collection,
so you can find government docs,
depending on what you're looking for,
you might be looking for statistics or
historical information or reports from agencies like NASA,
all of those can be found there.
In addition to the Marriott Library,
we do also have the James E. Faust College of Law Library,
the Health Sciences Library,
and the McKay Music Library.
There are three specialty libraries that you also might want to check out.
When you're doing research one of my big tips is
to use the ProQuest thesis and dissertation database.
I call this benefiting from your successful predecessors in your research.
You can actually go into Advanced Search
and look at just the University of Utah thesis,
even down to thesis just by my advisor,
if you're interested in that.
Dissertations are not scholarly sources,
but they are chock-full of really good information.
For example, the references,
they often have over 100 references,
so if you find a dissertation on your topic,
it is a wealth of references,
you can copy the titles and put them in Google Scholar.
You also can look at what a good lit review looks like.
Chapter 2 is usually the lit review in a dissertation.
Chapter 1 is the introduction.
If you're looking for a particular type of research,
if you're looking for quantitative research,
correlation research, qualitative research,
auto-ethnography research, you can search
those particular research methodologies to see the methods section,
which is Chapter 3.
The university does have a data repository,
so if you're collecting data and you would like to
store your data at the university,
we have a repository called The Hive.
I also have a link here for
educational statistical data being the education library.
I get a lot of requests from students who are looking for K-12 data from say,
Detroit or a city or a state,
and I can help you find that data through the NCES education statistical data.
There's also a really cool website if you're looking for social data and
COVID data in public health data,
it's called 500 US cities.
You can select what you're looking for,
and then look at different main major cities across the US.
These are all of resources, and people,
and departments that can also help you with your research needs, so just ask.
That's the last section of this strategy 5.
It's scope out what is available.
If you have questions,
please contact me and let me know so I can help you.
If you can't find what you're looking for,
we can find some resources in other places.
We do have a lot of resources, for example,
a student I was working with last week was looking for oral histories,
and we have oral history documents that had been scanned in that
she could look at the oral history of Native Americans,
so that we do have a lot of resources that are available.
Take care. Stay in touched.
Contact me if you have a question.