Thursday, February 19, 2009

Accessing Reading #4

Reading #4: "The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Appetizing Alternative to Google" by Steven Bell. Chronicle of Higher Education (2/20/2004)

Post reading response on blog BY 3/3

You'll be using the library catalog to locate this article. Any time you have a citation for an article, this is the process you'd use to find the full text:

- Go to the library homepage (http://library.uncw.edu/)
- Click on "Search Catalog"
- Click on the "Journal Title" tab
- Type in the name of the publication: Chronicle of Higher Education
- We'll talk about how to interpret the catalog record in more depth later in the semester
- For now, click on the link for "Academic Search Premiere"
- Click on "Search within this publication"
- In the second search box, type in "Infodiet" (make sure to leave "Chronicle of Higher Education" in the top box)
- It should be the second result you retrieve
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Intellectual Property .ppt

The .ppt on intellectual property is online: .ppt
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Book Reviews

Today in class we'll briefly discuss book reviews and how you can utilize these reviews to help you with Assignment #2 (the Annotated Bibliography).

The library has a guide to finding book reviews: Go to the library website - Click on "Research Guides" - then in the third column (on the right) click on "Book Review Resources" (http://library.uncw.edu/web/research/topic/bookreviews.html).

In class I will pass out a worksheet about finding book reviews you can do for extra credit. Completion of this worksheet will give you 2 points extra credit.

It is due at the beginning of class on Thursday (2/19).
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Overview of Libraries and Scholarly Communication

The .ppt for today's lecture is available here: .ppt
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Good video about Second Life

Here's a great overview of Second Life and shows specifically how it can be used in a college or university: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL3D-59MbnY
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Upcoming Extra Credit Opportunities

The following are extra credit opportunities for you:
  • Today, in class, you will briefly see Second Life. If you go to http://www.secondlife.com/ and create an account (which is free) and create an Avatar and explore Second Life (which requires you to download software to your computer) you can write a 250 word summary about your experience and get 2 points extra credit. You can either e-mail me (pembertona@uncw.edu) or post this summary to your blog. You can do this at any point during the semester (as long as it is submitted before 4/23).

There are three upcoming events sponsored by Randall Library. You can choose ONE of these and write a 250 summary of the event to receive 2 points extra credit. Of course you can participate in all three but you can only receive extra credit for ONE of these events. You can e-mail me your summary or post your summary to your blog.

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