Class Notes

Day	Date	Topic	Other Links
Wednesday	8/19/98	Course Introduction, Computer accounts, Netiquette, Electronic Mail: Part 1	Get your email account The Net: Guidelines and Netiquette
Monday	8/24/98	Electronic Mail Part 2: Pine and Listservs	LISZT Tile.net How Is a Listserv Like a Coke Machine?
Wednesday	8/26/98	Brief History of Information	Writing Through the Ages   click on the writing type to view Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World Book of Hours    graphic Cuneiform writing  graphic Early Printing Press  graphic
Monday	8/31/98	Academic Libraries, Information Formats, Organization of Library Materials --No notes, see Bolner & Poirier, Ch. 2-3 & 5
Wednesday	9/2/98	Reference Sources & Evaluation of Materials --No notes, see Bolner & Poirier, Ch. 8
Wednesday	9/9/98	Cataloging & Classification	Linnaeus (18th c) Systema Naturae, taxonomy of living things DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM The MARC Record History and General Descripiton The MARC Record Detailed Description of fixed and variable field tags and what they mean.
Monday	9/14/98	Electronic Searching, Part I: Online Library Catalogs
Wednesday	9/16/98	Government Documents--no notes
Monday	9/21/98	Periodical Literature, Indexes & Abstracts
Wednesday	9/23/98	Electronic Searching, Part II: CD-ROM Databases--no notes, see handouts from class
Monday	9/28/98	Citation Style--no notes, see class handouts
Wednesday	9/30/98	Examinination Review
Monday	10/5/98	Examination #1
Wednesday	10/7/98	Electronic Database Searching, Part III: Web-based Databases	ProQuest Direct: Help Contents at http://proquest.umi.com/help/contents.htm First Search: Explanatory Notes at http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/lsc311/17notes.html#first
Monday	10/12/98	Electronic Database Searching, Part III (con't): Web-based databases
Wednesday	10/14/98	Internet History, Structure & Tools	The Roads & Crossroads of Internet's History Hobbes' Internet Timeline An entertaining look at milestones in the development of the Internet; compiled by Robert Hobbes Zakon, archived at http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html Short History of the Internet An excellent article by Bruce Sterling, noted futurist As We May Think A pioneering information science article by Vannevar Bush
Monday	10/19/98	Electronic Database Search, Part IV: The Web	Selected Internet Search Engines & Subject Directories Chart Class handout also available at http://infopeople.berkeley.edu:8000/src/chart.html Searchable Indexes: A Descriptive Listing from The Internet Scout Report at http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/tollkit/searching/searchindexes.html Altavista Help http://www.altavista.com/av/content/help.htm Hotbot Help http://www.hotbot.com/help/ Excite Help at http://www.excite.com/Info/searching.html?a-tip-t Infoseek Help Lycos Help
Wednesday	10/21/98	Web Evaluation
Monday	10/26/98	UseNet & DejaNews	DejaNews
Wednesday	10/28/98	HTML, Part I
Monday	11/2/98	HTML, Part II
Wednesday	11/4/98	HTML, Part III
Monday	11/9/98	Censorship & Examination Review	Readings "He Who Destroyes a Good Boooke, Kills Reason Itselfe: An Exhibition of Books Which Have Survived Fire, the Sword and the Censors" --A special exhibit from 1955 from the Spencer Library at the University of Kansas
Wednesday	11/11/98	Examination #2
Monday	11/16/98	Exam Post Mortem & Critical Thinking Assessment
Wednesday	11/19/98	Preservation	Readings VIDEORECORDING Z701.3.C65I7 Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age Brand, Stewart. "Written on the Wind."Civilization Oct/Nov 1998: 70-72.
Monday	11/23/98	Copyright	Readings "Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?" (Part I), Part II, and Part III The Atlantic Monthly, September, 1998 Round Three: Experts Discuss the future of intellectual property
Monday	11/30/98	Future of Information & Presentations
Wednesday	12/2/98	Presentations
Monday	12/7/98	Presentations & Final Exam Review