LIB100

Hi everyone.  Several people have had questions about quiz answers, so we’re posting the correct answers here.

Quiz 1:

1. We are planning to use all of these technologies in the course of this class: clickers, blog, google documents, and google notebook.
2. The link to the syllabus can be found on the front page of our blog, on the right hand side of the screen, under the heading “Pages.”

Quiz 2:

1. All of the following methods are valid to broaden or narrow a topic: date (years, months, weeks, days), source (TV, newspaper, internet), geography (continent, country, state, city), and specific group of people (age, gender, ethnicity).
2.  The length of your paper impacts how broad or narrow your topic should be and the resources you should use.  The longer the paper, the more breadth you can cover.  You will need more sources in order to have sufficient research to cover the breadth of your topic.  The shorter the paper, the more narrow and specific your topic will need to be.  You will not need as many sources, but they will need to be very carefully selected to focus on the specific topic you’ve chosen.

Quiz 3:

1. Searching for Anorexia AND Bulimia would mean that each result would have to contain both terms, rather than just one or the other.  This would give you fewer results.  Searching Anorexia OR Bulimia would find all articles containing Anorexia and all articles containing Bulimia, giving you more results.
2. Folksonomies are classification systems created by those who use the information, rather than experts in the subject.
3. Truncation allows you to search for multiple words with the same stem at the same time.  By searching child* you would find articles containing child, children, childhood, etc.  Truncation saves you time.

Quiz 4:

1. The information timeline goes in this order: web/television, newspaper,  magazine,  journal article, book, reference book/encyclopedia.
2. To limit searches in the ZSR Library catalog, go to the catalog home page and click the yellow “more limits” button on the right hand side of the page.

Please let us know if you still have questions!

Hello everyone.  This is a surprise extra credit assignment worth two points on your final grade.   It is due on Monday, November 12th.

Earlier this semester the Old Gold and Black ran a story on Wikipedia called Wikipedia use ignites academic debate.  The article discusses the debates going on at colleges across the country about the usefulness of the site.  The article also mentions several things we’ve brought up in class such as the role of encyclopedias in the research process, peer reviewed works as authoritative, and the information timeline.

For two extra credit points, please comment on your impressions of Wikipedia in light of this article, and how it could or could not be useful as a reference source

Please watch the following video, paying particular attention to chapter 5 and comment on this post.

If you’re struggling for ideas about what to comment on, consider:

• What are your opinions on copyright?
• What are your opinions on the public domain?
• What are your questions about copyright, public domain, or fair use?
• What role does citation plays in this issue?