Library Assignment

For this assignment, you must complete 8 of the following 11 questions, activities, and/or prompts. The goal is to ensure that you are aware of the various libraries and their myriad of resources available to you as an undergraduate student embarking on research. In addition, writing a detailed account of the steps you took to find resources supplies you with the information you need to complete a similar type of search again.

The activities require you to take pictures or screenshots to demonstrate completion of tasks. Embed the pictures in the document. Each picture or screenshots must be at least half a page in size. Keep all of the pictures and information for each task together in the document. You will submit a hard copy of the assignment in class. Submissions must be stapled.

1. Use the Research Database Sport Discus to locate a peer-reviewed article in full text. List step-by-step how you located the article on the OSU Library website. Include all the details of your search and print the first page of the article that includes the title and author information for the article. NOTE: Do not use The Sport Journal.
2. Locate the same peer-reviewed article you found for #2 but this time find it by searching for it using the publication information. List step-by-step how you located the article on the OSU Library website. Include the details of your search. NOTE: You must complete #2 to complete #3.
3. Frequently researchers need access to the library and its materials when they are not on campus, which requires researchers to sign in. After someone is signed in, they can review their account and see what resources they have checked out. Sign into your own account through the library website. Explain step-by-step how you can sign in to your account.
4. Pick a sport and locate a hard copy of a book about that sport through the library catalog. Print the catalog entry/record page. Access the book. Take a picture of the book to demonstrate that you found the book. Ensure all of the relevant information is included in the picture.
5. Sometimes articles are not available in full text for the researcher. When that is the case, scholars turn to other institutions that have a relationship with OSU to locate the piece. Use the research databases to identify a peer-reviewed article relating to sport that is not available full text. Print the article description. Create an Interlibrary Loan (Illiad) account and request that article that you were not able to locate through the research databases. Take a screenshot of the filled-in Illiad request page. Once the article arrives, take a screenshot of the first page of the peer-reviewed article. List step-by-step how you worked through this process.
6. Recording and including references is an essential step to the research process. Many researchers purchase their own copies of style guides, but they also are available at academic libraries for use in the library. Using the library website, locate the electronic version of The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition copyright 2024 in the OSU library catalog. Demonstrate that you accessed the style guide by taking a screenshot of the main page.
7. There are different types of periodicals and it is imperative that scholars can distinguish popular, trade, and peer-reviewed sources from each other. Locate a popular magazine on the library website. Detail step-by-step how you located that periodical, and then take a picture of the publication details.
8. There are different types of periodicals and it is imperative that scholars can distinguish popular, trade, and peer-reviewed sources from each other. Locate a trade periodical on the library website. Detail step-by-step how you located that periodical, and then take a picture of the publication details.
9. Although they are not widely disseminated in the same manner as a book or journal, dissertations and masters theses can be valuable resources. They demonstrate original research and usually precede eventual publication in book or journal form. Locate an electronic version of a dissertation or thesis. Detail step-by-step how you located it and take a screenshot of the record page.

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