LIB100

For this extra credit assignment, find a page in Wikipedia to edit.  You’ll need to add at least one sentence to get the extra credit points.  If you do this, you’ll get one extra credit point on your final grade.  If you make an addition that needs citation, and add the citation to the appropriate place on the page, you’ll get a total of two extra credit points on your final grade.

To get the extra credit points, print off the page before you make the edit and afterwards, and highlight or circle the area you’ve changed.  Bring them to class on Monday.

If you have questions about how to make edits to Wikipedia, please see Kaeley or Lauren.

As requested, here are the links to the sites we discussed today in class.

• RSS (defined), Google RSS Reader- good for having content pushed to you
• Creative Commons- good for finding media to use in your presentations
• Flickr- good for finding photos to use in your presentations
• Archive.org- good for viewing websites as they looked in the past
• Del.icio.us bookmarks- good for tracking current sites on various topics
• Zotero- a Firefox extension designed to make research and bibliographies easier

Let us know if you have any questions!

Please read Becoming Net Savvy and comment below.  This is due November 28.

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.

From Peabody Library, this video is an EXCELLENT review for what you should include in your evaluations of your scholarly books and articles.

After watching the video, what kinds of things do you think you should look for when evaluating a website? We will be discussing the open web after the holiday. This will get us ready for that discussion.

Due: Wednesday

For one point extra credit on your final grade, go to the library website, and take the survey mentioned under the banner.  Be sure to leave your email address in the last box, so we know you took it.  If you are not interested in being included in the focus groups, leave your email, but also leave a note saying you’re not interested in participating.

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?