Classroom Location - only for section #001

As we talked about today, the test (this Thursday) will be held in your regular classroom in Leutze.

After Thursday, we will meet in the Library Instruction Room (RL #1039) for the remainder of the semester with 2 exceptions:

March 28 (meet in Leutze)

April 11 (meet in Leutze)

I will update your online syllabus accordingly.

Lecture slides and Lingo page

Now that the library website has changed, the web addresses for the lingo page and the PowerPoint slides have changed. The following are the new addresses for the material that will be covered on your test:

Library Lingo: http://library.uncwil.edu/web/research/topic/lingo.html

Overview of Libraries .ppt slides: http://library.uncwil.edu/web/instruction/lib103/Overview%20of%20Libraries.ppt

Organization of Information .ppt slides: http://library.uncwil.edu/web/instruction/lib103/Organization%20of%20Information%20and%20Citations.ppt

Classification Systems .ppt slides: http://library.uncwil.edu/web/instruction/lib103/Classification%20Systems.ppt

Controlled Vocabulary and Boolean Logic: http://library.uncwil.edu/web/instruction/lib103/Controlled%20Vocab%20and%20Boolean%20Logic.ppt

Updated Syllabus and .ppt slides

Your syllabus has been updated: http://library.uncwil.edu/is/LIB103/syllabus.html

You can find Tuesday's lecture slides here: http://library.uncwil.edu/is/LIB103/Classification%20Systems.ppt

Assignment #3

We will discuss assignment #3 in class. You are to answer the following questions on your blog. This should be posted BEFORE class starts on 2/28.

1. How is the word "catalog" defined? (use any dictionary)
   
2. Name any catalogs that you are familiar with
   
3. What kinds of information do catalogs offer?
   
4. How are the catalogs organized?
   
5. What similarities are there in the way that this information is offered?
   
6. What do the catalogs have in common?
   
7. What do they do for you?

Section #001 Meeting in Library on 2/21 and 2/23

This is to remind you that LIB 103 (Section 001) is meeting in the Library Instruction Room (back, right of 1st floor #1039) at 11:00 on Tuesday and Thursday of this week (2/21 and 2/23).

No Class Today (2/16)

LIB 103 has been cancelled today (Thursday, 2/16). Class will resume on Tuesday (2/21).

Deadline and Lecture

The deadline for both Assignment #2 and your reading response to "The Information Infrastructure: Libraries in Context" is 10:00 p.m. tonight (2/14). Both Assignment #2 and your reading response MUST be posted ON YOUR BLOG by 10 p.m. tonight to receive credit.

The powerpoint presentation slides for today's lecture can be found here: http://library.uncwil.edu/is/LIB103/Organization%20of%20Information%20and%20Citations.ppt

Meet in CMC on Thursday

All classes meet in the Curriculum Materials Center (in the Watson School of Education Building) on Thursday

Blogs, Lingo, Lecture, Thursday, etc.

If you have not already checked to see if your blog is working, please do: http://library.uncwil.edu/is/LIB103/LIB103blogs.html

The library lingo learned in class can be found here: http://library.uncwil.edu/faculty/pembertona/lingo.html

The powerpoint lecture from last week is here: http://library.uncwil.edu/is/LIB103/Overview%20of%20Libraries.ppt

Thursday (2/2) we will have a tour of the library. Section #001 should meet across from the Circulation Desk at 11:00.

Assignment #2 is due on 2/7. You must have your assignment posted on your blog BEFORE class time on this date.

Out of Town

I will be out of town from Friday (1/20) through Wednesday (1/25). We will have class on Thursday (1/26). If you need to contact me before then, e-mail is your best bet (pembertona@uncw.edu).

Remember to send your blog addresses to me BEFORE class on Thursday. The format should be: http://thenameofyourblog.blogspot.com

Welcome to the LIB 103 Blog!

This is the course blog we'll be using for LIB 103.

You can come here to look for new posts which will include information and updates about class, information passed on by your classmates, and citations for resources we discuss in class.

Grades Are Posted

LIB 103 grades are posted (as of 12/6).

I was EXTREMELY generous to many of you to move your grades up.

As I have already told you, I'll be out of town beginning tomorrow (12/7) and will not return until 12/14. Should you have a question about your grade, you can make an appointment with Lisa Williams to see your final progress report.

Contact her via e-mail (williamsl@uncw.edu) or phone (962-3688).

Lisa will not be able to give you any more information that what is on your progress report.

Information Quotes from Robert

"Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered." - Heinz V. Bergen

"Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success" - Albert Einstein

"It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off" - Mark Twain

"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant." - Mitchell Kapor

"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways." - Peter McWilliams

"Information is the currency of democracy." - Thomas Jefferson

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered." - Heinz V. Bergen

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." - Franklin P. Jones

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family." - Kofi Annan

Important Info!

If you are going to make up any work or do extra credit:

All blog postings (reading reports, assignments, extra credit - everything) must be posted or handed in BY:


MIDNIGHT, Monday, 12/5

Anything later will not be counted


Grades will be posted by 5:00 p.m. on 12/6


Final Project Due Dates:

Presentations: Tuesday, 11/29

Tests: Thursday, 12/1 (after any leftover presentations)

Papers: Due by the beginning of class on 12/1


AP will be out of town 12/2 – 12/5 and 12/7 – 12/14

Information Quotes from Nate

"Listening is more than just a very rewarding habit. After awhile you discover what a world of information you can gain from hearing what others say, and If you're interested, you're interesting. All the most popular people are good listeners." - Loretta Young

"The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree." - Paul A. Volcker

"Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities." - Daniel Akaka

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me." - Denise Richards

"The old techniques of gathering information don't apply to America's new enemies." - Chuck Rob

"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age." - Tony Robbins

"Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it." - David Rose

"There are still places where people think the function of the media is to provide information." - Dan Rottenberg

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." - Carl Sagan

"Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom." - Clifford Stoll

Information Quotes from Austin

1) "Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit" - William Polland

2) "Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart, intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used" - Dr. Carl Sagan

3) "You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels" - Sheila Bullantyne

4) "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family" - Kofi Annan

5) "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wired, it wafts across the electrified borders" - Ronald Reagan

6) "If Information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development" - Kofi Annan

7) "Technology is so much fun but we can drown in over technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge" - Daniel J. Boorstin

8) "This information movement, left to its own devices, will increase the gap between rich and poor and rich and poor nations" - Michael C. Dertouzos

9) "Information on the internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversations at a bar" - Dr. George Lundberg

10) "Information is money, but data is squal" - Angela Llama-Butler

11) "The information in the world doubles everyday. What they don't tell us, is that our wisdom is cut in half at the same time" - Joey Novicle

Websites from Tuesday's Lecture

Media Literacy Classroom Guides

American Library Association's Statement on Privacy

Find the owner of a website - http://www.whois.com/

Find background reports on people - http://www.anywho.com/

Electronic Privacy Information Center

• http://www.epic.org/privacy/
• http://www.epic.org/privacy/student/
• http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html

How Stuff Works

Dictionary of Computer Terminology

UNCW's Virus/Spam Information

Search for other blogs - http://blogsearch.google.com/

Example of a Wiki - http://instructionwiki.org/Main_Page

Check your mailbox size (UNCW e-mail)

Server Space for Students (TIMMY)

Information Quotes from Brad

1. Your library is your Paradise. -Erasmus

2. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest. - Ambrose Bierce

3. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me. -Anatole France

4. There are seventy million books in American Libraries, but the one you want is always out. -Tom Masson

5. A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. -Arthur “Bugs” Baer

6. Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container. - Unknown

7. Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. - Barbara Tuchman

8. Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. - Lady Bird Johnson

9. I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. - Alexander Smith

10. Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. - Judah ibn-Tibbon (12th century)

Information

1. You cannot tell your friend you’ve been cuckolded. Even if he doesn’t laugh at you he may put the information to good use. - Michel de Montaigne

2. Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. -Samuel Johnson

3. Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. -Gene Fowler

4. I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. -Franklin P. Adams

5. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. —-Gertrude Stein

6. Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. -Alfred Hitchcock

7. Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.”-Mark TwainThe highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. -Rabindranath Tagore

8. Information is not knowledge. -Albert Einstein

9. Communication can’t always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send. -Joseph Badaracco

10. As a rule, he -or she- who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. -Benjamin Disraeli

Links from Thursday's Lecture

UNCW Honor Code

Plagiarism Sites:

• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
• How Not to Plagiarize
• A Plagiarism Tutorial
• You Quote It, You Note It!

World Intellectual Property Organization (tutorial)

Trademarked Sounds

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

NCSU Library Patent and Trademark Guide

Copyright Information

Berkley Intellectual Property Blog

Sticker Shock (Academic Journal Prices)

Cornell's Scholarly Communication Website

No Class Today (11/8)

There will be no class today (LIB 103) – Tuesday, November 8th.

Unfortunately (or fortunately for you all) I have a work related commitment that I cannot change.

Use this time to catch up on anything you’ve missed, work on extra credit and think/work on your final project.

There is no homework for today.

See you Thursday!