Final Grades

I will be e-mailing you your final grades for the course tomorrow (Thursday, 12/2).

If you have ANY questions at all about your grades you need to e-mail BEFORE 8 a.m. on Monday (12/6) as I will be posted grades in SeaNet that day.

PowerPoints from Class

• Information Overload (discussed in class on 11/16): .ppt
  
• Answers to Your Questions (to be discussed in class on 11/18): .ppt

To discuss if there is time (11/18 and/or 11/23):

• Information Issues (digital divide and Patriot ACT): .ppt
  
• Information Issues (intellectual freedom and Internet safety): .ppt

Schedule Updates

11/16: Reminder: We are meeting in the Curriculum Materials Center - Education Building - #127.

11/16: All extra credit is due by 3:30 p.m. this day (there are two opportunities on the course blog).

11/18: We will have the Reference Resources exercise in class on 11/18.

11/23: We will do SPOTS, your team evaluation (determines the remaining 7 points of your team grade), and the final exam review. This is our last class before the final exam. DO NOT MISS THIS CLASS!

Explore Library's Mobile Site for Extra Credit

For 2 points extra credit (must be posted by 11/16), blog about the library's mobile website:

http://m.library.uncw.edu/

For credit, you must explore the site with your mobile device and provide feedback in a blog post. This will help us revise the design of the site.

Credit will only be given if thoughtful feedback is given. "This is cool" is not thoughtful feedback.

What do you like? What do you not like? Were you able to access everything you would like to access? What was left off? Is it easy to use on your particular device? What device do you have? Is it visually appealing? Did it load quickly?

Want to star in a video about the Learning Commons?

If you are interested in appearing in a video about the library's Learning Commons, please contact Lisa Williams: williamsl@uncw.edu. She is a librarian and the manager of the Commons.

Filming has been happening on MWF between 9 and 11 but there may be other times that will work for those involed in the project.

You would only need to answer a few short questions about how you use the Learning Commons and your opinions on the space.

Syllabus Updates

Check the syllabus for updates:

1. I have combined the team activity from this past Thursday (that we did not complete) with the team activity for tomorrow. So the entire activity will be worth two points.
   
   
2. The final annotated bibliography is now due on 11/23. You may turn it in early if you wish.

PowerPoint and Interesting Bit from Wikipedia

There is an interesting "public appeal" from Wikipedia's founder online (read).

The PowerPoint from today is available here: .ppt

Search Strategies / Call Number Exercises / Thursday

Search Strategies

In reviewing your "search strategy" worksheets (the exercise that you worked on outside of class about selecting keywords and databases) I'm noticing a trend.

If you are in a database that has one search box you need to put similar keywords (synonyms) in paratheses.

Example: (television or media or film) AND (health or wellness or psychology) AND (teen* or adolescen* or child*)

Think of it like a math formula!

Call Numbers

Today in class we'll be talking about call numbers. To get practice understanding how books are put on the shelf in call number order, you can complete these exercises:

http://www.pitt.edu/~ford29/SatchLCall/BASIC/quizonly.html

http://www.pitt.edu/~ford29/SatchLCall/COMPLETE/quizonly.html

Thursday

On Thursday we'll meet in our classroom but then will immediately take a tour of the library. If you are late to class you'll need to find us. You will be counted as absent if you do not participate in this tour.

No Office Hours Today

I will not have office hours today (Monday, 11/1). As always, you can e-mail me if you have any questions.

Reminders

• No office hours on Monday (10/25)
• No class on Tuesday (10/26)
• Database presentations are on Thursday (10/28)
• The next part of your bibliography (scholarly articles) is due on Thursday (10/28)

I will be out of the office from Sunday (10/24) until Thursday (10/28) but hope to have e-mail access.

Schedule change and .ppt

As we discussed in class, the database presentations will be on 10/28. On 10/21, we will talk about the library website and catalog and you will have a group activity. This is reflected on the syllabus.

No other changes (due dates, etc.) have been changed.

The slides about finding full text are available: .ppt

Search Strategy Help

We discussed various search strategies yesterday in class:

• Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
• Truncation (Example: teen*)
• Limits (Example: limiting by date or limiting to scholarly publications)
• Field searching (Example: Searching for a particular word in an article's title)

As there was no PowerPoint, here are some resources to help you:

• Research at Randall (Move ahead to about the :30 mark): http://library.uncw.edu/resources/online_searching_using_randall_library
  
• ASU's keyword search tools tutorial: http://www.asu.edu/lib/tutorials/strategies/index10.html
  
• Randall Library catalog tutorial (Modules 5 through 10): http://uncwmedia1.dcs.uncw.edu/osinskij/catalogtutorial/
  
• An online .pdf of the research strategy worksheet: http://library.uncw.edu/forms/my_research_strategy

PowerPoint on Databases

We will pick up with slide #22 tomorrow in class: .ppt

Announcements

1. No Class on October 14th

As we discussed and voted on in class, we will not have class on 10/14. You are responsible for the activity we would have done in class. In class on Tuesday (10/12) I will distribute the activity. You may work on this individually or in a small group. We will discuss this more in class on Tuesday. If you will not be in class on Tuesday you are required to e-mail me to obtain the activity. You must e-mail me by midnight on Tuesday (10/12). The activity is due at the beginning of class on 10/19.

2. Extra Credit Opportunity

It occurs to me that in our discussions about scholarly communication that the reasons for participating in scholarly communication and research are lost. While university faculty do research in part to attain tenure, the reasons for doing research are far greater. It is research that helps us understand human and animal behavior, helps us find cures for diseases, works to create new technologies to better society, and so on.

You can learn more about current UNCW research here: http://uncw.edu/research/

So for you to see what type of research is being done I'm offering you an extra credit opportunity. To earn three points of extra credit, you may do the following:

• Find three scholarly articles written by faculty members at UNCW or any other university. Hint: If you use the database Web of Knowledge, you can type "Wilmington, NC" in the "Address" field so you can retrieve citations for articles written by researchers in Wilmington. Many of them are at UNCW. We will talk more about how to retrieve the full-text of these articles in future classes.

• Write a blog posting about these articles. For EACH article, provide a complete citation, summarize the purpose of the research, and briefly discuss the importance of this research.
  
• I would expect that it would take a minimum of 300 words to adequately describe each article. So your blog posting would be a minimum of 900 words plus three citations.
  
• The deadline to complete this is November 16.

3. Directions for Retrieving the Next Reading

When you have a citation for an article, your instinct is most likely to Google the title of that article. In some cases you might get lucky and find that article for free using Google. But as we've discussed in class, most of the time you can't. This is the case for your next reading. I did not place this reading on Reserve so you can start getting in the habit of locating articles on your own. Here are the steps:

• Go to the library website and click on "Have a citation? Looking for a journal?" which is located below the search box on the homepage.


• In this case you are looking for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Type this in and click "Go!"


• You are now taken to the library catalog which you might think of as a "portal" to get to journals that are in databases.


• Under "This title is available electronically via" you'll see a list of databases.


• Click on the first one (EBSCOhost MasterFile Premiere).


• You are now accessing the Chronicle of Higher Education through this library database.


• On the right side of the screen, click on "Search within this publication."


• As one of the words in the title is very unique ("Infodiet") you can type this into the second search box to retrieve the article you need.

Intellectual Property Slides (Copyright and Plagiarism)

The slides on intellectual property (from 9/28) are online: .ppt

Thursday's .ppt on Citations, Annotations, Abstracts, and Book Reviews

Here are the PowerPoint slides from Thursday's (9/23) lecture: .ppt

Help with MLA

An interactive way to learn MLA: http://depts.washington.edu/trio/quest/citation/apa_mla_citation_game/index.htm

Purdue's MLA guide online: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

MLA Handbook For Writers Of Research Papers (MLA) in Randall Library: LB2369 .G53 2009 (Copies are available in the General Collection and at the Learning Commons/Reference Desk)

In Class Today

As we're covering quite a bit today in class, I thought it best to post some of the resources we'll cover:

• In relation to our continued discussion about Wikipedia, an appealing alternative is Britannica Online. This is a library resource. You can access it directly or from the library's homepage click on, "eResources by Name: A - Z" and click on "B" and then "Britannica Online."
  
  
• Test review: See previous post
  
  
• EndNote Web: You may want to investigate using EndNote Web for your annotated bibliographies. We'll briefly go over this tool in class. It is located on the library's "Tools & Widgets" site: "Using the Library" - "Tools & Widgets" - "EndNote Web." If you have registered on campus and have trouble accessing your account, use this url: http://www.myendnoteweb.com/
  
  
• Many librarians are interested in using Second Life to showcase collections and offer library services. UNCW has an island in Second Life: http://www.uncwil.edu/itsd/services/educational/SecondLife.html and there is a "virtual" Randall Library. Here are some videos about Second Life:
  1) http://secondlife.com/whatis/?lang=en-US
  2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuNFRie8wA
  3)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL3D-59MbnY
  
  
• PowerPoint on the introduction to libraries and scholarly communication

Test #1 (9/21)

Your first test will be approximately 30 questions.

Half of the questions will be multiple choice questions about the library lingo you are responsible for knowing.

The remaining questions will be short answer and can address all material discussed prior to today. It will not include questions from 9/16's lecture and discussion.

Be sure you are familiar with:

• The information cycle (You might find this tutorial useful)
• The discussion questions about the "Signs of the Times" video
• CRITIC (What does this stand for? What should you use it for?)
• What it means to be media literature
• The definitions of misinformation and disinformation
• Basic principles of how search engines work
• The term "information technology"

Today's Discussion

Today in class, we will discuss how search engines work and how to use the web for research. We will not have time, however, to discuss all the slides during class. You are responsible for understanding the main concepts in the slides:

http://library.uncw.edu/web/instruction/lib103/pemberton/Internet.ppt