LIB100

Here are the correct answers for the last two quizzes:

Quiz 9:

• Results higher up in a Google search are linked to by more websites.
• All of the above (or ownership, authority, accuracy of content, purpose, and objectivity) should be criteria used to evaluate websites for use in research.
• Anyone can post information online, where traditional media is filtered by editors or purchasers.

Quiz 10:

• Web 2.0 is different from the earlier web because it is much easier for everyone to publish information online. This can be useful for very specific types of research such as information that is social (what is appropriate to wear when traveling, etc.) or extremely current (what are the user reviews of the new gaming system that just released last night).
• RSS is a technology that pushes new information to you. If you know you want to keep up with a specific website you can subscribe to it and get news delivered to you. This is particularly useful if you follow many sites because it will save you a lot of time.

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!