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The examples of uninformed research habits below are designed to be used in your outreach materials to faculty as examples of behavior that the library can counter.
Students will be familiar with library building locations and service points.
Seniors will have never stepped foot into the library.
Upper division students will lament that they were not aware of the library’s spaces.
Students will be familiar with services offered to them on the library website.
Students will only use Google for research.
Students don’t know how to access online library resources
Students will know whom to go to for help with their library research and feel comfortable approaching librarians and library staff.
Students will experience library anxiety.
Students will not recognize librarians and library staff.
Students will be able to effectively navigate library resources to find appropriate sources for an assignment.
Students who use the search box on the library homepage will struggle to find, select, and evaluate appropriate for their assignment.
Students struggle to select a relevant library resource / database for their topic.
Students will be introduced to the advantages of using interlibrary loan and other resource sharing systems.
Students start their research too late to take advantage of ILL or PALShare.
Students claim that there are no available resources to help answer their research question.
Students will be aware of their total information network.
Students will start with ChatGPT for their research needs.
Students will be unaware of the variety of disciplinary resources available from the library.
Students will be able to identify keywords from a given topic and construct an effective search strategy.
Students will use underdeveloped research topics.
Students will type their entire search question into a search box.
Students will be able to distinguish between credible information types in order to select sources whose authority, currency and purpose are relevant to their information needs.
Students will cite Wikipedia instead of a scholarly article.
Students will not follow the guidelines of assignments and use other types of sources than those requested.
Students will be introduced to the value of the information provided by the library, both financial and intellectual.
Students will use lesser quality information for their research.
Students will be unaware of the cost of scholarly information.
Students recognize the necessity of attribution in order to engage ethically and legally in scholarly conversation.
Students will plagiarize themselves and others, even accidentally.
Students will be unaware of the rules of citation styles.
This fun infographic is a tongue-in-cheek way of reaching out to faculty! You can add further customization (there's space at the bottom for your logo!) or use the infographic as is.
