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Research Roadmap is an interactive online tutorial for students wanting an introduction to research skills. The tutorial covers the basics, including how to select a topic and develop research questions, select, search for, find, and evaluate information sources. It also covers the ethics of information use, including copyright and fair use, how to avoid plagiarism, and how to cite sources correctly.

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New Materials

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Ravelry
Ravelry.com is an online community that unites knitting enthusiasts and allows them to share, collect, and discover new...
Ravelry Lesson Plan
Ravelry.com is an online community that unites knitting enthusiasts and allows them to share, collect, and discover new...
GoodReads Organizing System Presentation
This presentation is intended to provide the audience with a foundational understanding of various GoodReads features. By...
GoodReads Organizing System Lesson Plan
GoodReads is a website which provides various organizational structures for users to document, rate, review and share...
23&Me Tutorial Lesson Plan
This lesson plan provides information on the DNA testing kits, 23&me. The lesson plan was created as a part of a group...
Lesson Plan: Amazon Prime Video - Organization and Discovery of Resources
This resource is a group lesson plan that outlines the live walk-through via screen sharing – approximately 12-13 minutes...
Lesson Plan for "Scryfall: Database Introduction and Syntax Tutorial"
This lesson plan was written to accompany another Merlot material, the presentation "Scryfall: Database Introduction and...
DOAJexplain
Directory of Open Access Journal is a database that offers open access journals and articles. Through this resource we...
Organizing System Workshop: Yelp!
This is a slideshow for a workshop analyzing the online search and review service, Yelp!, as an organizing system. It...
23andMe Lesson Plan
This lesson plan and sample presentation explore 23andMe's genetic composition service. 23andMe provides multiple testing...
Team Scryfall Lesson Plan
Team Scryfall: Andrei Mihailovic, Sharon Osofsky, Jenna Primaveri, Landon King Learning Objectives 1. Understand the...
Organizing System Lesson Plan: Yelp!
Yelp! is an online location-based organizing system primarily used for searching for and reviewing businesses and...
Scryfall Syntax Tutorial
Scryfall Landon King, Sharon Osofsky, Jenna Primaveri & Andrei Mihailovic The organizing system that we chose for our...
Yelp! Lesson Supplement
The attached file is a lesson supplement to the Yelp! lesson plan, with added dialogue and content information for each...
Yelp! Lesson Supplement
This is the companion document for our Yelp! presentation. It outlines the specfic things that we discussed when we gave...
Yelp! Lesson Plan Presentation
The lesson plan gives a general overview of Yelp!'s basic structure and the mechanics behind it that governs its system...
Yelp! Lesson Given in Information Organization and Retrieval Course
This presentation was given in a graduate information sciences core class, in a group of three students. We discussed the...
Amazon Prime Video Organizing System Teaching Tool
This document presents the information needed to run a short lesson (about 12 min.) on the functions of the Amazon Prime...
Goodreads Organization Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, we introduce the Goodreads platform and the basics of how it's organized. Goodreads is a website for...
Scryfall: Database Introduction and Syntax Tutorial
The instructor of the session will first need cursory knowledge of Magic the Gathering, a fantasy role playing card game...
learning how to use DOAJ
The following webpage is information on how to use DOAJ or the Directory of Open Access Journals in comparison with Gale...
Goodreads Organizational Information Lesson Plan
Goodreads is a platform for readers to share, search, review, and organize the books they read/want to read. There are...
Full Steam Ahead: A Presentation on Steam as an Organizing System
What classification insight can be gleaned from Steam? Steam is a digital video game storefront and distribution platform...
Syntax of Scryfall Lesson Draft
This lesson draft is a companion to the presentation Syntax of Scryfall. It gives facilitators learning objectives that...

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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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University of Tennessee Knoxville
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Sarah Bowman
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Jenna Primaveri
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Patricia Takacs
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Lia Hall
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Allison Whitted
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Landon King
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Bailey Battilla
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Sharon Osofsky
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
Erica Hsia
University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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University of Tennessee System - Knoxville
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Spring Hill Public Library
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Mississippi Association of Educators

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