Development of Tasks and Scenarios

Scenario #1:

You are taking an introductory course in marketing. Find some articles on marketing and advertising.

Tasks:

1. Find some articles.

2. Find out the title of the 17th record

3. Get more results for this search.

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Questions:

1. What did you think of the progress indicator? (Please Wait…)

2. Why do you think you would need to click “Display more results”?

3. What do you think that did?

4. How would you identify new results?

5. What do you think is the difference between clicking Refine by Author and an author’s name in the suggested search area?

6. Does the Refine by Library facet make sense?

Scenario #2:

Find some books on the Minnesota State Fair.

Tasks:

1. Save the records for two or three of the books you find.

2. Find the records you have saved.

3. Make sure these records are saved so you can come back to them next week.

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Scenario #3:

You are doing some research on famous explorers and would like to read Edmund Hillary’s High Adventure.

Tasks

1. Find the book

2. Add a tag to the record for this book that would help describe it

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Questions:

1. What do you think tagging is?

2. How do you think someone would use it?

3. Do you think that you would use it?

4. What do you think saving or “pushing” to Connotea or del,icio.us does?
Scenario #4:

You are working on a group project for a history course. Your group has decided to use Library Search to find relevant materials on the topic of Christopher Columbus.

Tasks:

1. Find a book on Christopher Columbus.

2. Assign this book the tag “Columbus”

3. Find other items that have been tagged “Columbus”?

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Questions:

1. Is the book you tagged “Columbus” a part of the results for all items tagged Columbus? Why or why not?

Scenario #5:

Your classmate has written a review for Research in NASA History: a guide to the NASA history program. Find the book and this review.

Tasks:

1. Find the book. Find the review.

2. What rating did your classmate give this book? (Answer Aloud)

3. Add your own review and rating

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Questions:

1. Would you read other people’s reviews? Do you think you would review any materials?

Scenario #6

You would like to find materials by the author Philip Roth.

Tasks:

1. Log-in to PRIMO and findmaterials

2. Save your search for future reference

3. Determine where the search was saved and find it

4. Delete the search you just saved

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Debriefing Questions:

1. What is the difference between saving a query and saving a query with alert?

2. What is the difference between saving a query and saving to the E-Shelf?

Scenario #7:

Your professor wants the class to read the following article:

Chen, Chuansheng & Harold W. Stevenson, “Homework: A Cross-Cultural Examination.” Child Development, Jun89, Vol. 60 Issue 3, p551.

Tasks:

1. Using this site, find the article online

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Questions:

1. What do you think is happening when the new windows pop-up?

Scenario #8:

Find the book Research in NASA History: a guide to the NASA history program.

Tasks:

1. Read this book in your web browser

2. Find some reviews for this book

PLEASE REMEMBER TO THINK OUT LOUD ☺

Questions:

1. What did you think of the detailed record of this book versus other detailed records you saw throughout the test?