Kristen Bailey | Humanities Research Services Librarian
Ms. Bailey earned her M.L.I.S. from the University of Alabama, and a dual degree (B.A.) in History and English Literature from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has been at Mercer since July 2017, and previously worked at Shorter University in Rome, GA. Ms. Bailey’s research interests include using antiquities in library instruction for history students in academic libraries, the effects of library instruction on resource quality in student research, and tailoring library instruction to English language learners. Ms. Bailey’s teaching experience also includes two years teaching English as a Foreign Language to secondary school students in South Korea.
Activities
Lesson Plans Contributed
Made to be an in class activity or a library resource requested by professors for courses. The first page goes with the instruction portion of a class. 'What is a primary source? What is a secondary source? What is a tertiary source?' It takes them through example types of sources, particularly concerned with history courses. The second and third pages require evaluation of a student's primary and secondary sources. They include a series of questions to make the student think about what makes a source reliable, if the source has a skewed perspective, or if the source is actually related to…