Slides for Tuesday (3/10)

The PowerPoint slides for Tuesday (3/10) are available: .ppt

What's Due

Annotated Bibliography: Part 2 is due Thursday (2/28)

Reading #3: "The Infodiet: How Libraries Can Offer an Appetizing Alternative to Google" by Steven Bell. Chronicle of Higher Education (2/20/2004).
[Use library catalog to locate article - see steps below]

Post reading response on blog BY 3/11

- Go to the library homepage
- Click on "Search Catalog"
- Click on the "Journal Title" tab
- Type in "Chronicle of Higher Education"
- Click on "EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier Jan 1999-(last 1 month not available)"
- Find the article by clicking on "Search within this publication" and type in "Infodiet" in the second box (the box below "JN Chronicle of Higher Education")
- Click on "HTML Full Text" to retrieve the full text of the article

Upcoming Office Hours

My office hours on Monday (2/25) will be limited to 3:00 - 4:00.

I will not hold office hours during Spring Break (Monday, 3/3).

Please e-mail me if you have any questions.

Slides and Reminders

The .ppt slides for today are available online: Subscription Databases.

The Library Lingo and Randall Library test is Thursday.

Part I one of your annotated bibliography is due today.

No Office Hours Today

I am out sick today and will not hold my usual 3 - 5 office hours.

Slides and Links

The slides for tomorrow's lecture (2/11) are available online: Classification Systems

Getting familiar with call numbers:

Exercise #1

Exercise #2

Updated Syllabus

I've updated the syllabus to reflect the final exam/last day of class as April 24th

This Week

1/29's Reading Report is due before class on Tuesday (2/5)

News Report #3 is due before class on Thursday (2/7)

On Thursday, we'll be meeting in the Curriculum Materials Center in Watson School of Education (#127). If you are not familiar with where this building is please look at the campus map: http://www.uncw.edu/ba/campus_map.htm

We will be discussing the following on Thursday:

- News Reports #2 and #3
- The Reading Report ("Information Navigation 101")
- Your Annotated Bibliography (Assignment #2)

I'll also be handing out your grades to this point (this will not include Thursday's News Report)

Reminders

1/22's Reading Report should be posted on your blog before class on Tuesday (1/28)

Reading #2: "Information Navigation 101" by Andrea L. Foster. Chronicle of Higher Education (3/9/2007).

You'll need to use the library catalog to locate this article. The first few steps in this process is the process you'd use any time you have a citation to a journal article and need to find it. We'll talk more about this in class.

- Go to the library homepage
- Click on "Search Catalog"
- Click on the "Journal Title" tab
- Type in "Chronicle of Higher Education"
- Click on "EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier Jan 1999-(last 1 month not available)"
- Find for article by clicking on "Search within this publication" and type in "Information Navigation 101" in the second box (the box below "JN Chronicle of Higher Education")
- Click on "HTML Full Text" to retrieve the full text of the article

Post your reading response on your blog before class on 2/5

Your next News Report (#2) is due before class on Thursday (1/31)

Slides for Today

The PowerPoint slides for today are online: Overview of Libraries

Reminders

Reading #1 is assigned today:

"Are Librarians Totally Obsolete?" by Will Sherman
Available online: http://www.degreetutor.com/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed

Post reading response on blog before the beginning of class on 1/29.

Your first news report is due before the beginning of class on Thursday (1/24). Be prepared to discuss this in class.

Office Hours and PowerPoint

I will not hold office hours on Monday, 1/21 due to the Martin Luther King state holiday.

The PowerPoint slides for today are online: What Is Information?

Spring 2008

Welcome to LIB 103.

Check this site frequently for announcements, reminders, links to PowerPoint presentations, assignment details, class resources, etc.

All information pertaining to LIB 103 will be delivered through this blog.

Each student in LIB 103 will have his or her own blog as well.

Welcome to the class!

Ms. Pemberton

Grades

All extra credit must be submitted today at the beginning of class (no exceptions).

I will grade the final exam immediately after class today. Your final grade will be e-mailed to your UNCW e-mail account by 5:00 p.m. today. You have until 10 p.m. to respond with any questions relating to your grade. If for some reason you are not able to do this, let me know immediately.

I will post grades in SeaNet tomorrow (12/5).

If you wish to delete your blog, you can log into Blogger and click on "Settings." Under the "Basic" section, scroll to the very bottom and click on "Delete This Blog."

Updates

• Your grade "status" report will be given to you in class tomorrow (11/27)
  
  
• We will have the final review for the exam tomorrow (11/27)
  
  
• You will also have the opportunity to evaluate your team members and the team grade will be explained
  
  
• You will also complete the SPOTS tomorrow (11/27)
  
  
• PowerPoints for this week: Information Overload (.ppt) and Information Issues (.ppt)
  
  
• All extra credit must be completed and submitted by 12:30 p.m. on 12/4 (the day of the final exam)

Interesting Videos

Here are some interesting videos related to class: http://mediatedcultures.net/mediatedculture.htm

No Class on Tuesday (11/20)

We will not meet on 11/20. You are responsible for:

- E-mailing your completed, corrected bibliography to your instructor BEFORE 12:30 on 11/20

- Reading "Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on the Internet" (Electronic Reserves). You must post your reading response on your blog BY 12:30 on 11/29

- We will have a final exam review on 11/27 and/or 11/29

- A "status grade report" will be e-mailed to you on 11/20 or 11/21 indicating your grades to this point

PowerPoint Slides

Evaluating Information .ppt slides

Office Hours (11/19)

I will not have office hours on 11/19. Please e-mail me if you need to meet or have any questions.

PowerPoint Slides

PowerPoint Slides Available for 11/6