Please click on "Assignment #1" on the right side to review the assignment guidelines if you have questions.
"The Future of Libraries, With or Without Books" (from CNN.com):
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/04/future.library.technology/index.html
Feel free to use this as one of your News Reports.
To find books at other libraries:
To find book reviews: http://library.uncw.edu/web/research/topic/bookreviews.html
To find previews of books in Google: http://books.google.com/
To find government documents:
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.
As a group or as an individual, view this online plagiarism tutorial: http://www.fairfield.edu/lib_pcobjectives.html
Complete the online quiz and at the end ...
The .ppt from Thursday's discussion (9/4) is online: Overview of Libraries
Your reading #2 response is due before class on 9/16: "Information Navigation 101" by Andrea L. Foster. Chronicle of Higher Education (3/9/2007).
You'll be using the library catalog to locate this article. We will discuss this in class.
- 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" (see image)
- Click on "Search within this publication"
- In the second search blank, type in "Information navigation 101" (see image) 
- It should be the only result you retrieve
Ms. Pemberton's Office Hours:
Ms. Pemberton will not have office hours from 9/15 until 9/29. They will resume on 10/6.
As a group, view this online plagiarism tutorial: http://www.fairfield.edu/lib_pcobjectives.html
Just as we're talking about book banning and censorship, a relevant local story to consider:
"Parents Take Son Out of School Over Controversial Book"
http://www.wwaytv3.com/parents_take_son_out_of_school_over_controversial_book/03/2008
Video: http://www.wwaytv3.com/video/parents_take_son_out_of_school_over_controversial_book/03
WWAY on 13 March 2008 - 5:00pm.
WILMINGTON -- A book on a local ninth grade reading list has some parents so upset, they took their son out of school.
The book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, was an option for students to read in a freshman English class at Ashley High School. It was among the American Library Association's most challenged books of 2006.
Now the book is being challenged here in New Hanover County. 
"This book is the most graphic book I've seen as a student book."
As Chuck and Wendy Strafford read through The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky they couldn't believe it was being taught in their son's high school freshman English class.
Chuck said, "There's millions and millions of good books out there, literature books, that are cleaner."
The coming-of-age tale told from the perspective of a high school boy has sparked controversy nationwide. The book goes into detail about drugs, alcohol, gay sex, date rape and other topics the Straffords say would be better off in more advanced classes -- not for 15-year-old students like their son Elijah.
"We're trying to keep him protected and sheltered in a healthy, clean environment and keeping him so he's innocent," Wendy said.
Elijah's teacher, Christy McCoy, gave students the option of reading a different book, but the Strafford's say he was absent the day she made that announcement and was under the impression he had to read this book.
New Hanover County Schools Spokesperson Valita Quattlebaum said, "The book will go through the school's media advisory committee and it will be reviewed there. Then the book will go on further to the district's media advisory committee to be reviewed at that time. And after that takes place a decision will be made whether or not the book will be allowed to remain on the school's shelves."
The Straffords say they've had to sign permission slips so their kids could take sex-ed courses, and even watch certain movies. They say they would have liked to be notified in the same manner about this book.
Wendy said, "We should, with literature, especially with that graphic of a nature, be told as parents, not let the kids have that choice since they are minors."
The Straffords, along with another concerned parent, met with the principal and their son's English teacher and say they couldn't reach any sort of agreement. They took Elijah out of Ashley for the time being and say they hope this eventually blows over.
They say they aren't trying to get the book banned; they simply would have liked to have gotten a heads up about its graphic nature.
