LIB100

• Assignment #3: Books and Scholarly Journal Articles is due on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Please make sure that you look at the assignment instructions and include the MLA rule number with your citation.
• There will NOT be a blog post due on Wednesday, Feb. 20. We will post a new discussion after class that day, due on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

The following are the answers to the first two quizes:

Quiz 1

1. Date, source, geography and group of people are all ways of broadening or narrowing topic.

2. The length of your paper or project can impact your topic and how many sources you need in several ways.  Broader topics will need more space to discuss them, so they will work better with longer papers (15-20 pages).  A very specific topic will work better with a shorter paper (5-7 pages).  Similarly, a shorter paper will require fewer sources, while a longer paper will require more research.

Quiz 2

1. Anorexia OR Bulimia will give you more results than Anorexia AND Bulimia.  The OR requires that all results include EITHER of the terms, while the AND requires that all results include BOTH terms.

2. Folksonomies are classification systems created by users of the information rather than experts in the field.

3. Truncation is using the root of a word along with either a “?” or “*” to get as many variations of the word as possible in your search results.  This allows you to get plurals or different endings without doing multiple searches.

Group Presentation:

• Groups 1, 2, and 3 will present on Monday, Dec. 3. Groups 4 and 5 will present on Wednesday, Dec. 5.
• Ten minutes for each group.
• Each group member must participate and speak at some point during the presentation.
• You can use PowerPoint or other visual aids if they are appropriate for your topic.
• Please incorporate these elements into your presentation. You can have each group member do one part, or divide it another way.
  • Give a summary of your topic and what you found in your research
  • How was using library resources (reference, catalog, databases) v. internet resources? Were they different/similar, easier/harder to use when you were looking for information on your topic for this class?
  • Has your idea of what information is and how it is impacted by technology changed because of the information you found for this project? If so, how?

Final Project:

• The Final Project must be completed in the Google Notebook by the beginning of class, Wednesday, Dec. 5.
• Please take a look at the Final Project example. There is a link to it on the sidebar of the blog in the group projects section. Please make sure that you remove any extra “dialog” from your Notebook before the deadline.
• You will need to copy each of your assignments into the Notebook. Each resource entry from your assignments must be signed. There are also several additional sections that will need to be completed by the group.
• Remember to make any changes to your assignments that we have required in the comments. Correct your spelling and punctuation!
• Because of the formatting of the GoogleDocs, many of you have not had to double space or indent your citations. Make sure that when you copy them to the Notebook, you double space and indent the second and following lines of your citations.

We have changed the due date for Assignment #4.  Rather than being due on Monday, November 26, it will now be due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, November 28.

For this assignment you will be locating and evaluating a scholarly website to use for your project.  Please consult the handout from class for a list of the criteria that you should consider when making your selection.  Remember that it is important that you give us detailed instructions on how you located the website, and your reasoning for choosing that site above others on your topic.

Here are the answers to Quizes 5-8. Let us know if you have any questions.

Quiz 5:

1. All of the examples are part of Scholarly Etiquette.
2. When writing citations, you always indent the second and following lines.

Quiz 6:

1. It is most appropriate to use the ZSR catalog when you know the author or title of a book you are looking for, or if you are looking for something that is physically in the building.
2. It can be useful to use Amazon’s book search or GoogleBooks to get reviews from other readers, publication information, or additional information on the content of the book, such as the table of contents or an excerpt of the text.

Quiz 7:

1. Start at the journal tab at the top of the ZSR homepage. Type the title of the journal, “Journal of Theological Studies” in the search box. Select “Oxford Journals Online,” then select the 1999 volume (50.2), then select the article title from the table of contents.
2. Yes, this article is available in both print and electronic formats through the ZSR library.
3. You can locate databases on the ZSR databases page using all three methods: the alphabetical listing, the subject tree and the search box.

Quiz 8:

1. All of the options are ways to use complex searching to locate the information you need.
2. In addition to the publication information, such as journal title and volume, a proper citation for an online journal must include the database where the article was located, the database provider, and the names of the university and library you were using.

Take a look at this video and comment on some aspect of it. If you are not sure where to start, think about what statistic was most surprising or interesting, or what impact these changes might have on your future career or educational plans.

We will be using this blog space as a location for you to respond to various articles and videos related to our course.