LBSC 100: Research Methods and Information Retrieval, Section 1
Class Links, Fall 2007 (Tentative)
Go directly to: Aug 23 | Aug 30 | Sept 6 | Sept 13 | Sept 20 | Sept 27 | Oct 4 | Oct 11 | Oct 18 | Oct 25 | Nov 1 | Nov 8 | Nov 15 | Nov 22 | Nov 29 | Dec 6 | Dec 13
August 23 - Introduction to class; Information Literacy; How to access required class readings.
- American Treasures of the Library of Congress
- Declaration of Independence (needed for Dr. Becker's class!)
- Declaration of Independence from Encyclopedia of LOC [Required Reading in WebCT]
- Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
- The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010 - Executive Summary or Complete white paper
- Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (ACRL 2000)
- PowerPoint Presentation for first class meeting
- Primary Documents in American History: Declaration of Independence
August 30 - The Research Process; Scarborough Library; Self-guided tour
- Information Anxiety (Wurman) [Required Reading in WebCT]
- Information Cycle tutorial - Penn State University Libraries
- Kuhlthau and Information Search Process [Required Reading in WebCT]
- Research 101 tutorial - University of Washington Libraries
- Road to Research - UCLA College Library
- Scarborough Library home page
- Searchpath tutorials - Scarborough Library, Shepherd University
September 6 - Your Research Process; Introduction to Field Research
How do you conduct research? -
- An Anthropologist in the Library [Required Reading in WebCT]
- Answers.com
- Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research? [Required Reading]
- ChaCha
- Facebook Grows Up - Newsweek Online, August 20-27, 2007
- QueryCAT
- Recent books: The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki), Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Tapscott and Williams), The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture (Keen), and Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (Weinberger)
- Refdesk
- ResourceShelf.com and Docuticker
- Social Networks: blogs, IM, Yahoo! Groups, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Yahoo! Answers, etc. Allow you to be a consumer and producer of information. Also seeing changes in who organizes information (experts vs. non-experts).
- The Straight Dope
- Uclue
- Web Searches Go Low-Tech: You Ask, a Person Answers - Noguchi, Washington Post, August 16, 2006 [Required Reading]
- Why Did Google Answers Shut Down? [Required Reading]
- Yahoo! Answers
- "A Wide World of Sources" (page 3) - associations, Government, think tanks, political organizations, etc.
- Glossary of Basic Library Terms
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - many terms have sound files for pronunciation
- ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
- OED: Oxford English Dictionary
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedias (Jean Gates) [Required Reading in WebCT]
- Encyclopedias listed at Lii.org
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Wikipedia
- Don’t Take My Folders Away! Organizing Personal Information to Get Things Done - Jones, et al.
- How users organize electronic files on their workstations in the office environment: a preliminary study of personal information organization behaviour - Khoo, et al.
- Individual Differences in Personal Information Mangagement (PIM) - challenges facing all of us as we try to manage and effectively use information
- Personal Information Management: PIM 2008 Workshop - April 5-6, Florence, Italy
September 13 - Books; Introduction to RefWorks
- Amazon.com
- An Entire Bookshelf, now in your hands - NY Times, August 9, 2007 [Required Reading]
- Envisioning the Next Chapter for Electronic Books - NY Times, September 6, 2007
- Google Book Search
- LC call number system - slide show and interactive quiz
- Library of Congress Classification Outline
- How to read call numbers in an academic library - USG/Galileo system.
- Library of Congress online catalog
- LibraryThing - online service to help people catalog their books. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth
- Max online catalog - Scarborough Library
- Thomas Jefferson's Library [Required Reading]
- Watch WorldCat grow
- WorldCat - free version | WorldCat - subscription version. Note: WorldCat has a new citation feature for APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian styles
September 20 - Magazines and Journals
- Academic publishing and journals - Wikipedia entry [may open in new window or tab] [Required Reading]
- Antebellum literary culture and the evolution of American magazines
- History of the Magazine in America
- The Magazine - Chicago Public Radio broadcast, August 5, 2003
- Magazine - Wikipedia entry [may open in new window or tab]
- Magazine publishing - from Encyclopedia Britannica
- Magazines from a format perspective
- Scholarly Journals or Popular Magazines - New Mexico State University Libraries
- Types of Articles: Popular, Professional/Trade, and Scholarly/Peer Reviewed/Refereed - Randall Library, UNC-Wilmington [Required Reading]
September 27 - Class trip to Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.!)
October 4 - Databases: EBSCOhost, LexisNexis, CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, etc.; Full-Text Journal Listing; Interlibrary Loan; RefWorks
- Boolean Search Tips - Lake-Sumter Community College Library
- Google Scholar
- Scarborough Library home page has links to EBSCOhost and other subscription databases
October 11 - Midterms Week. In-class assignment.
October 18 - Citing resources; RefWorks
Why proper citation is important and tips on avoiding plagiarism:
- Cheating 101: Internet Paper Mills - Kimbel Library, Coastal Carolina University
- Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices - Council of Writing Program Administrators
- Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism - University of Alberta Libraries
- Plagiarism Tutorial - San Jose State University Library
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing - the OWL at Purdue University
- Synthesis: Using the Work of Others - University of Maine at Farmington Writing Center and Mantor Library
- Verification of Citations: Fawlty Towers of Knowledge? - Wright and Armstrong, July 2007
- Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper - Duke University Libraries
- Documenting Web sources - guide from MLA.org
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide - the OWL at Purdue University
- RefWorks
- APA Formatting and Style Guide - the OWL at Purdue
- APAStyle.org, specifically for Electronic resources
- Chicago Style: History - Diana Hacker
- Turabian Style
October 25 - Evaluating Web/Internet resources
- Chucking the Checklist: a Contextual Approach to Teaching Undergraduates Web-site Evaluation - Marc Meola
- Credibility: a multidisciplinary framework - Rieh and Danielson
- Critical thinking and Web evaluation, pages 15-19 (Gardner) [Required Reading in WebCT]
- Evaluating Information - Virginia Tech
- Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - Johns Hopkins University Libraries
- Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - UC Berkeley
- FactCheckED: Seeing Through the Spin - Annenberg Classroom Project
- Five criteria for evaluating Web pages - Cornell University Library
- How to Evaluate Information on the Web - Widener University tutorial
- Media credibility and cognitive authority: the case of seeking orienting information - article in Information Research, April 2007
- Skills for Electronic Information Evaluation (excerpted from Fitzgerald) - [in WebCT]
November 1 - Intellectual Property and Technology tools (using images, sound, video, etc.)
(Note: We'll be in Room 307 for
a work day on November 1st, Thursday of this week for Professor Geffert's class. Dr. Becker will be discussing
how to do Annotated Bibliographies on November 1st).
- The Importance of the Public Domain - Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State [Required Reading]
- What is Intellectual Property? - Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State [Required Reading]
- What is Intellectual Property? - World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Why Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Matters [Required Reading]
November 8 - Presentation Tools: web pages, wikis, PowerPoint, etc.
- Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking web site
- Gettysburg Address - National Park Service
- Gettysburg PowerPoint presentation
- Good Presentations (.ppt)
- Life After Death by PowerPoint - Don McMillan video on MySpace
- Points of View: PowerPoint in the Classroom PowerPoint in the Classroom, Is it Really Necessary?
- PowerPoint presentation rubric
- Shepherd web pages
- Spresent - Spresent is a free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint. Create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online. You can send presentations via e-mail or publish on your web site or blog
- Using Visual Aids Effectively
- Wikispaces - create simple web pages that groups, friends, an families can edit together
- Zoho apps - Sheet (spreadsheets), Show (presentations), Wiki, Writer (word processor), etc.
November 15 - Deep Web/Invisible Web
- "As We May Think," by Vannevar Bush was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. A full-text version of this article is available at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush. See also a brief biography of Vannevar Bush at Internet Pioneers: Vannevar Bush
- Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need - many of these are Deep Web resources
- CompletePlanet - 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines (may open in new window or tab)
- The Deep Web - Laura Cohen, SUNY Albany [Required Reading]
- Deep Web Research 2007 - Marcus Zillman, LLRX.com
- Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush's Memex
- Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines [Required Reading]
- In Search of the Deep Web - Salon magazine
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine. See also their Archive-It.org collections
- Invisible Web tutorial - UC Berkeley Library [Required Reading]
- Meeting the Challenge: Saving the World Wide Web - Library of Congress. See also Web Capture, a Library of Congress initiative to catalog and preserve Web sites. Have developed thematic sites such as Hurrican Katrina, 9/11 Terrorist attacks, Iraq War 2003, Papal Transition, Election 2004, Crisis in Darfur, etc.
- Paul Otlet's Universal Network for Information and Documentation - did he envision the Web before Vannevar Bush? See also the paper Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext published in JASIS in 1994.
- Turbo10 Deep Net search
November 22 - Thanksgiving Break, no class
November 29 - Work day for "Issue Group" Presentations
December 6 - Focus Group session with Judi McIntyre - attendance required
December 13 - Final Exam time (9am-11am) - Reflection Questions and Essay on Information Literacy. Class
evaluation with Judi McIntyre at 10:00 am. -- attendance required
- AASL Standards for the
21st-Century Learner
- Discover Information Literacy
- Information R/evolution
- The L-Team - Williams College
Created by Laura Neal - comments to: lneal@shepherd.edu
Last updated: November 15, 2007