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Lecture Slides for Tuesday

You can view the PowerPoint slides for Tuesday's lecture (11/28) here:

• Evaluating Information
  
  
• Information Overload

Assignment #5

For Assignment #5 (worth 5% of your final grade), please do the following:

1. View this online plagiarism tutorial: http://www.fairfield.edu/documents/Library/plagicourt.swf

If you are on a computer that does not have flash, you may view an .html version of the tutorial: http://www.fairfield.edu/x14498.xml

2. Complete this online quiz (http://www.fairfield.edu/x14519.xml) and e-mail me your results (copy and paste the results into a new e-mail to me: pembertona@uncw.edu).

I must receive the e-mail before the beginning of class on Thursday, 11/30.

No Class Tomorrow (11/21)

No LIB 103 tomorrow (11/21).

Class will resume on Tuesday of next week (11/28).

Reading responses for reading #4 are due tomorrow (yes, I will be checking!).

Reading #4: "Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?" by Brock Read. Chronicle of Higher Education (10/27/2006) - available via Lexis-Nexis.

Reading responses for reading #5 are due on 11/28. The reading is called, "Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on the Internet" and is available on Electronic Reserves.

Today's Lecture

Here are the PowerPoint slides from today's lecture:

• Using the Web for Research

Reading #3

"The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Appetizing Alternative to Google" by Steven Bell. Chronicle of Higher Education (2/20/2004).

Use your newly aquired research skills to obtain this reading

Post reading response on blog BY 11/9