Mini-Workshops at the Reference Desk

I'd like to share Jerry Bornstein's quick summary of the two mini-workshops he did at the reference desk yesterday:

The IS Division is continuing to experiment with mini-workshops, which present in abbreviated format the curriculum normally included in our full-length, 75-minute workshops. Minis usually run 12-15 minutes. Tuesday, Feb. 24, we presented two sessions titled, "The Heck with Google: Find Information on the Web without a Search Engine." With regard to learning goals for the session, it was planned that after attending this session, students would be able to:

• Formulate effective search statements in search engines using:
  
• Boolean operators (AND in google by default)
• Phrase searching (use of quotes around phrases)
• Field searching (intitle)
• Directly access most likely information producer sites without using a search engine
  

Twenty students attended the 12:45 session; 8 attended at 1:15.