LBSC 100: Research Methods and Information Retrieval, Section 2
Class Links, Fall 2009
Go directly to: August 19 | August 26 | September 2 | September 9 | September 16 | September 23 | September 30 | October 7 | October 14 | October 21 | October 28 | November 4 | November 11 | November 18 | November 25 | December 2 | December 9 December 16
August 19 - Introduction to class; Information Literacy; How to access required class readings.
- The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2011
- Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (ACRL 2000)
August 26 - The Research Process; Scarborough Library web site
- Information Cycle tutorial - Penn State University Libraries
- Kuhlthau and Information Search Process [Required Reading - in Sakai]
- Research 101 tutorial - University of Washington Libraries
- Road to Research - UCLA College Library
- Scarborough Library home page
- Searchpath tutorials - Scarborough Library, Shepherd University
- WISPR: Workshop on the Information Search Process for Research
September 2 - Your Research Process
How do you conduct research? -
- An Anthropologist in the Library
- Answers.com
- Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research?
- 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
- Why Did Google Answers Shut Down?
- Yahoo! Answers
- "A Wide World of Sources" (page 3) - associations, Government, think tanks, political organizations, etc.
- WikiAnswers.com - how does this compare to other "Answers" sites?
- DTXTR.com at LG Mobile phones - translate text messaging terms to plain English
- Glossary of Basic Library Terms
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - many terms have sound files for pronunciation
- Netlingo - includes IM/text acronoyms
- ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
- OED: Oxford English Dictionary
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedias (Jean Gates)
- Encyclopedias listed at Lii.org
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Wikipedia
September 9 - Books; Introduction to RefWorks
- Amazon.com
- The Buffalo Public Library in 1983 - an article written in 1883 about future libraries by Charles A. Cutter. Shades of Bellamy's Looking Backward?
- An Entire Bookshelf, now in your hands - NY Times, August 9, 2007
- 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
- Open Library - March 2008 beta, 20 million items?
- Shelfari - makes it easy to see what your friends are reading, what others with similar tastes have enjoyed, and even get and give book recommendations. Compare and contrast this to LibraryThing site.
- Thomas Jefferson's Library - an interactive exhibit at the Library of Congress
- Watch WorldCat grow
- WorldCat - free version | WorldCat - subscription version. Note: WorldCat has a new citation feature for APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian styles
September 16 - Magazines and Journals
- Academic publishing and journals - Wikipedia entry [may open in new window or tab]
- 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 23 - Databases: EBSCOhost, RILM, JSTOR, etc.; Evaluating what's in subscription databases
- Boolean Search Tips - Lake-Sumter Community College Library
- Google Scholar
- Scarborough Library home page has links to EBSCOhost and other subscription databases
September 30 - Databases, con't.; Full-Text Journal Listing; Interlibrary Loan; RefWorks
October 7 - Midterms Week. In-class exam.
October 14 - Citing resources and using 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
- Sometimes citations/references to research are unclear or inaccurate. For example, the News Track "Calculating Clutter" at the ACM web site incorrectly mentions research published in Scientific American. The actual research on mess-o-meters was published in the August 2007 issue of The Journal of Vision. A story at MSBNC, "Think Your Room is Messy? Maybe Not" does correctly identify the research source as The Journal of Vision
- 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 21 - Evaluating Web/Internet resources
- Chucking the Checklist: a Contextual Approach to Teaching Undergraduates Web-site Evaluation - Marc Meola [Required Reading]
- Credibility: a multidisciplinary framework - Rieh and Danielson
- Critical thinking and Web evaluation (Gardner)
- Evaluating Information - Virginia Tech
- Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - Johns Hopkins University Libraries
- Evaluating Internet Sources & Sites: a Tutorial - Purdue University Libraries
- Evaluating Web Content - University Libraries, SUNY Albany. How to evaluate Web sites, free research sites, document repositories, blogs and wikis, social networking sites, social bookmarks, and multimedia
- Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - UC Berkeley
- Evaluating Web sites criteria - Baylor University Libraries. Use for in-class activity.
- FactCheckED: Seeing Through the Spin - Annenberg Classroom Project
- Feline Reactions to Bearded Men - (web page evaluation)
- Five criteria for evaluating Web pages - Cornell University Library
- Hoax sites - use for in-class activity
- 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
- Postmodernism Generator - website that generates random fake essays; they sound academic, but are completely computer-generated
- Skills for Electronic Information Evaluation (excerpted from Fitzgerald)
- Web of Trust launches first online reputation rating community - this new community-based browser add-on allows you to assess the trustworthiness of websites
- What Open Access Research can do for Wikipedia - article in First Monday, March 2007. See also articles about Wikipedia in the April 2007 issue of First Monday.
October 28 - Deep Web/Invisible Web
April 2 - Deep Web/Invisible Web
- Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources - mini-guide prepared by Marcus Zillman
- "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 2009 - Marcus Zillman
- Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush's Memex
- Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines
- 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, and the web site Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet
- Turbo10 Deep Net search
- What is the Deep Web? - podcast with Marcus Zillman
April 9 - Preservation issues
- In Digital Age, Federal Files Blip Into Oblivion - NY Times article discussing loss of electronic records due to budget, time, etc.
April 16 - Intellectual Property and Preservation issues; technology apps and tools for presentations
- The Afterlife is Expensive for Digital Movies - NY Times, Dec. 23, 2007
- Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking web site
- Gettysburg Address - National Park Service
- Gettysburg PowerPoint presentation
- Good Presentations (.ppt)
- The Importance of the Public Domain - Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State [Required Reading]
- Life After Death by PowerPoint - Don McMillan video on MySpace
- Points of View: PowerPoint in the Classroom Is it Really Necessary? [Required Reading]
- Poking Facebook - article in 02138 Magazine that discusses copyright and other intellectual property rights related to creation of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg (litigation against Zuckerberg by students who claim he stole ideas and code from ConnectU project)
- 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 [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]
- Wikispaces - create simple web pages that groups, friends, an families can edit together
- Zoho apps - Sheet (spreadsheets), Show (presentations), Wiki, Writer (word processor), etc.
April 23 - No class today
April 30 - Presentations on Intellectual Property and Preservation Issues; Class Evaluations. We'll also
discuss Reflection Questions and Essay on Information Literacy that will be completed during the Final Exam period.
May 5, 3:00-5:00 pm - Final Exam period
- Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2000)
- Political Science Research Competency Standards
- Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in English
- Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
Created by Laura Neal - comments to: lneal@shepherd.edu
Last updated: May 4, 2009