Best Practice Example

Name: Phyllis Holman Weisbard
Title: Women's Studies Librarian
Institution: UW-System
Street Address: 728 State Street
City/State/Zip: Madison, WII 53706
Phone: (608) 263-5754
Email: pweisbard@library.wisc.edu

Title of practice of implementation method: Using GenderWatch

Primary Audience: undergraduates
Secondary Audience: faculty

Describe the practice: GENDERWATCH is a fulltext database of women-and-gender periodicals and related material. There are three parts to the tutorial. "Content" teaches users how to distinguish between academic and popular material, both of which are found in the database. "Searching" covers both basic and advanced techniques for effective searching in the database, much of which is generalizable to searching any fulltext database, and "Features" demonstrates some special features of GENDERWATCH.

Comments: Co-author: Pamela O'Donnell

Competencies addressed through this practice:
2. Identify and select appropriate information sources.
3. Formulate and efficiently execute search queries appropriate for the information resource.
9. Understand the structure of the information environment and the process by which both scholarly and popular information is produced, organized and disseminated.

Supporting materials/resources used and their format: Web site: http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/genderwatch/iwsgenderwatch.htm

Special Requirements: None - just a web browser.

References consulted:

Would you provide the committee with a copy of any handouts? yes
Would you allow the committee to share this information on this web site and link to any online resources? yes