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Week |
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10 12/12 |
Relax,
enjoy the holiday,
re-acquaint yourselves with your families. Bye! |
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8 11/28 |
For classes
on the 28th and probably the 30th, explore
the resources and readings on the Web site around the History and Structure of the
Web, and Web
searching and prepare the questions there for class discussion. |
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7 11/21 |
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6 11/14 |
For class on the 14th,
read readings
on finding out what people want and prepare the
questions listed there for discussion.
In addition, look through the training modules on the reference interview,
and examine some examples of Web-based interview forms, and prepare the
questions listed regarding those. |
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5 11/7 |
For class on the 7th,
read the readings on Evaluation and prepare the questions there for
class discussion. UPDATED 11/7 for class on the 9th, read
the ACRL report on scholarly communication and be prepared
for class discussion on the issues raised there. In particular, choose which of those issues
you think would most challenge or trouble you if you were the head of a major
academic library by voting here. |
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4 10/31 |
For class on the 2nd
and Searching Assignment 2, read readings on finding
serial resources, explore the searching options (note those links go to generic
corporate web sites) and data structures and other searching goodies. An update on class meetings; class will
meet on the 14th (Matt Saxton will guest star, discussing Finding
Out What People Really Want). |
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3 10/24 |
For class
on the 24th (and likely
beyond), explore the various resources on the Web
site around the history
and structure of the scholarly journal; also read the articles
listed there, and be prepared to discuss the history of scholarly
communication as described there. In looking at those readings, and other scholarly journal
articles (you might want to browse through some at the library in our
field: Journal of the American
Society for Information Science, Information Processing & Management,
Reference & User Services Quarterly, etc.), identify the components and structure of a journal article (as we
did for monographs and electronic books) and decide whether they are
structural, metadata or content. (NB more may
be coming here before class on the 24th). In lieu of class on the 26th
, read the pieces on Information
Services and Mediation, view the presentation there (you
may need to use Explorer rather than Firefox for this), and engage in the discussion
on the Catalyst board. I’d ask you
to check that discussion regularly, not just once or twice; you should think
of spending as much time on the presentation and the discussion as we would
in class that day. I’ll keep an eye on
the discussion but will try to stay out of it as much as I can. There will not be a class meeting on the 26th. |
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2 10/17 |
For class on the 19th
read the
readings on monographic searching and prepare
the questions there for class discussion.
Also, look at and familiarize yourself with the other materials there
(searching options, data structures, records, etc). We’ll work through those in class. Also, find
bibliographic records for Georgiana in
Amazon, the UW catalog, a public library catalog of your choice, OCLC
WorldCat, Books in Print. Also get a
copy of the record for the netLibrary ebook you examined. Look at these records, compare them; we’ll
discuss their features and differences in class. Download and begin to fill in this grid on information formats and important aspects of
each. |
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1 10/10 |
For class on the 10th,
read Samuel Green’s article “Personal Relations Between Librarians and Readers”, Library
Journal 1, 74-81, 1876. (This is a Webified version.) As you read, think about these questions:
and read
Fox,
For class on the 12th,
read the
readings on the page on the monograph and prepare
the questions there for class discussion. Go into the UW catalog, and select
an electronic book that interests you. UW’s ebooks use the NetLibrary format, so
you can find what ebooks are there by searching the UW catalog using netlibrary
as a keyword. There are many hundreds
of books, so you may need to do a bit more searching to find something you
like (keyword search on netlibrary and You’ll have to register and
download the reader (which can take some time on a slow connection; be
warned) the first time you use a NetLibrary book. Play with the reader, see how you feel
about the experience. What do you
like? What do you not like? How might it be improved? What advantages or features are there in
reading an ebook this way (and there are other ways) over a traditional book,
and vice versa? Also have a look at this
book: Georgiana Duchess of A copy will be on reserve
at Odegaard Library; any other copy will do in either hardback or paperback,
so you might try another library, bookstore, etc. In particular, look at its structure
and components. Imagine you
were seeing a book for the first time—what do you see? Also, is there anything you would expect to
see that is missing in this book? We’ll discuss all of this in the
first couple of classes. See you then! You should know that I
will be out of town on October 25,
November 14 and 16 when this course is scheduled to meet, and
arrangements are in process. In
addition, we won’t have class on
November 21 (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving). I’d like to hold December 12 for
the possibility of a final class (this is during the final exam week); just
in case we don’t get through everything I want to do before then. I’ll let you know if we’ll need that time
as we get closer to that date. |