Success!

I did my first orientation the other night at work. It was for an upper level health sciences research class. I went over the basics of scholarly articles, peer-review, and academic journals. We talked about APA citations, basics of research, dangers of procrastinating, and then moved on to talk about specific databaes, including CINAHL, PubMed, and the Gale databases provided by the Tennessee Electronic Library. I was a little nervous, but the students actually asked questions. I also got to talk about Google Scholar. Anyone that knows me well knows what a huge fan I am of Google Scholar, so I loved getting to teach the students what it should and should not be used for. I even found a great example of a medical article for which our library did not have full text, but for which full text could be found on Google Scholar. I saw all the student notebooks come out to take notes then! :) Now, to toot my own horn just a little bit, I wanted to share the little email I got from the professor after the class:

Anna,


Thank you very much for all of your help. You have done an awesome job helping our students get a great start on the writing project.


Thank you :)