| Week | Date | Topics | Readings | Assignment | ||
| 1 | Thursday August 24 |
Course Introduction | None | Sign up for class listserv Discuss Final Projects |
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| 2 | Tuesday August 29 |
Libraries: Organization, Formats, Shared Traits |
Text: Chapters 2-3 & 5 | None | ||
| Thursday August 30 |
History of Information | Wernich,
Smithsonian
Drawing of cuneiform writing Drawing of an early printing press Keeping Our Word: Preserving Information Across the Ages |
None | |||
| 3 | Tuesday September 5 |
Citation Style | Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association | Quiz #1 | ||
| Thursday September 7 |
Reference
Sources: Part 1 |
Text: Chapter 8 | Final Project Topics Due Info Review #1 Assigned |
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| 4 | Tuesday September 12 |
Reference
Sources: Part 2 |
None | None | ||
| Thursday September 14 |
Cataloging & Classification | What
Is A MARC Record and Why Is It Important? http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/umb/um01to06.html |
None | |||
| 5 | Tuesday September 19 |
Online Library Catalogs | Text: Chapters 4 & 6 | Info
Review #1 DUE Hands-on #1 Assigned |
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| Thursday September 21 |
Government
Documents Collection & Resources |
Text: Chapter 12 | None | |||
| 6 | Tuesday September 26 |
Research Process | Textbook,
Chapter 14 Greene. Library Research Strategy http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/lr/lr101/greene/res_strat.html Tyner. Planning a Search Strategy http://www.olc.ouc.bc.ca/library/research/Research%20Strategy.html |
Hands-on
#1 DUE |
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| Thursday September 28 |
Periodical
Indexes & Abstracts (Print) |
Text, Chapter 9 | Hands-on
#2 Assigned |
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| 7 | Tuesday October 3 |
Information: Types (Scholarly vs. Popular; Primary vs. Secondary) Cycle (from idea to publication) Economics & Politics |
TBA | First Draft Due (Final Project) |
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| Thursday October 5 |
Information Evaluation |
None | ||||
| 8 | Tuesday October 10 |
Censorship, First Amendment |
"The
Internet: Library or Encyclopedia?" by Edmund B. Burke http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/erm9855.html "The First Amendment in Cyberspace: Background and Historical Perspectives" by Steven D. Hinckley http://lcweb.loc.gov/nac/nac30/hinck1.html |
Hands-on
#2 DUE Info Review #2 Assigned |
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| Thursday October 12 |
Statistical Sources: Print & Electronic | Text, Chapter 13 | Hands-on #3 Assigned | |||
| 9 | Tuesday October 17 |
Web
Databases Part 1 Basics & General Sources |
Info Review #2 DUE | |||
| Thursday October 19 |
Web
Databases Part 2 |
PsychInfo Inclass Activity | ||||
| 10 | Tuesday October 24 |
Web
Databases Part 3 Subject Specific |
None | Info
Review #2 DUE Hands-on #3 Assigned |
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| Thursday October 26 |
Free Research Day | None | None | |||
| 11 | Tuesday October 31 |
Copyright Plagiarism Intellectual Property |
10
Big Myths About Copyright Explained http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html And Read Either: 1. When Copying Is OK (Nolo' Legal Encyclopedia) http://www.nolo.com/encyclopedia/articles/pct/nn75.html 2. Fair Use Test http://www.benedict.com/basic/fairuse/fairtest.htm#Top |
None | ||
| Thursday November 2 |
Internet History & Structure | Textbook,
Chapter 7 "A Brief History of the Internet" by Walt Howe http://www0.delphi.com/navnet/history.html |
Hands-on
#3 DUE |
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| 12 | Tuesday November 7 |
The Web Part 1 | Specter, "Search and Deploy" New Yorker | None | ||
| Thursday November 9 |
The Web Part 2 | None | ||||
| 13 | Tuesday November 14 |
Work on Handson #4 | Second Draft Due (Final Project) Hands-on #4 Assigned |
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| Thursday November 16 |
Privacy in the Electronic World & Web Evaluation | Penneberg Forbes | Hands-on #4 DUE | |||
| 14 | Tuesday November 21 |
Web Evaluation | Kelly, New York Times | Information Review #3 Assigned | ||
| Thursday November 23 |
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None | None | |||
| 15 | Tuesday November 28 |
Preservation | "Slow Fires" videorecording | Info Review #3 DUE | ||
| Thursday November 30 |
Future of Information | Brown & Duguid, "Reading the Background | Final Projects Due | |||
| 16 | Tuesday December 5 |
HTML | None | None | ||
| Thursday December 7 |
HTML | None |
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| 17 | Tuesday December 12 |
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None | None |
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