1 hour, credit/no credit
Instructor: Jenny Presnell
279 King Library
529-3937
presnej@muohio.edu
Grades are figured:
Class Attendence | 10 points (one for each class) |
Homework and in class assignments | 40 points |
Paper | 10 points |
Exam | 40 points |
November 4
Administrative Issues
Description of Course
Producers of Information and Access in the Information Society
Readings:
We Have the Information You Want, But Getting it Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload.
Available from: http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
Why Information Literacy
Available from: http://www.uovs.ac.za/commserv/grownet/projects/infolit/whyinf2.htm
Cleveland, Harlan. Age of Spreading Knowledge. The Futurist. v24 (Mar/Apr 1990):35-39.
Available from: full text in Periodical Abstracts and electronic reserve
Sale, Kirkpatrick, etal. Information Technology: Boon or Bane. The Futurist. 31 (Jan/Feb, 1997): 10-15.
Available from: full text in Periodical Abstracts and electronic reserve
Brand, Stewart. Escaping the Digital Dark Age. Library Journal. Feb.1, 1999: 46-48.
November 9
Defining topics, designing searches and using a database.
(keyword and subject searching, boolean logic, truncation)
Finding books at Miami
Electronic Information Retrieval Definitions
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~nmoeckel/sanr/terms.html
November 11
Finding Books outside of Miami: OhioLINK, Worldcat and other libraries
November 16
Popular and Scholarly Periodical Articles
Uisng a General Periodical Index.
November 18
Specialized Journal Indexes
November 23
Newspapers and online/full text databases and resources
Exercise 5
November 23
No class. Thanksgiving Break
November 30
Evaluation of sources
Why we need to evaluate what we find on the Internet
Available from: http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html
Critical Evaluation of Resources
Available from: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Evaluation.html
Fink. Deborah. Process and Politics in Library Research. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1989. Read chapter 10 -- Critical Evaluation on electronic reserve.
Exercise 4 and 5 due
Exercise 6
December 1
Reference works and Special Databases
(types of reference matierials. finding book reviews, biographical information, directories,
company information, country information, statistics, financial information, literary
criticism, chemical information, encyclopedias, handbook information, consumer and
medical information)
Readings:
Bolner, Myrtle S. etal. The Research Process: Books and Beyond. Dubuque, IA.: Kendall-Hunt, 1997. Read chapter 8 -- Reference Resources
on electronic reserve.
Exercise 6 due
Exercise 7
December 7
Papers due
Using the Internet for serious research.
Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion?You Decide!
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/hoax/evlinfo.htm
Exercise 7 due
Exercise 8 due at end of class
December 9
Test