McMaster LibGuides: High School Teacher Librarian Toolkit: Library Resources for First Year Students

Information Literacy Sessions

Academic Research Skills 101 (Library Resource Information Session)
This is a sample presentation that accompanies an information literacy session that McMaster Librarians instruct to First Year students.
Constructing Search Strategies Worksheet
This is a sample exercise that we do with first year students to have them practice and incorporate identifying keywords, finding alternative phrases, and constructing search strings using Boolean operators and modifiers.

Social Sciences 1SS3 Winter 2019
This is an example of a guide created to accompany a First Year information literacy session.

Research Help

In addition to course specific guides created to accompany our information literacy sessions there are several resources available to help students with their research. These include:

As well as the Research Help portion of our website which includes lots of information related to planning your research, finding resources, evaluating & citing sources as well as publishing your research.