Strategy 5 scope out other resources

>> 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.