LIS1001 Course Calendar -- Jim Alderman, CRN10359, Wednesday, 12 - 12:50 PM
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Readings listed in the calendar should be completed prior to the beginning of the class session for which they are assigned. For example, you should have read Information: What Is It? before you walk into class on January 16th. All readings are online unless I bring handouts to class. Topics to be covered are preceded by an asterisk. The posted schedule remains flexible. If I see that we need to spend more time on a certain topic, we'll adjust the schedule mid-stream. If I feel that an additional assignment will help enhance understanding of a topic, I will add an assignment. |
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| January 9 | Topics: *Class Introduction. *Finding and navigating the LIS1001 Website. *Using Blackboard. *What is a library and what does it do? | |
| January 16 | Topics: *Types of materials housed in a library's collections: books, documents, videos, audios, electronic resources, etc. >READ> Encyclopedia Britannica article: Library (read from the beginning of the article up to the section on "Library Operation." Information: What Is It? How Is It Organized? Brief Overview of Books, Libraries, and Classification Systems. Media, Documents, and Other Nonprint Materials. Newspapers, Theses, and Other Library Resources. |
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| January 23 | Topics: *Recognizing and documenting different types of materials. MLA Style. |
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| January 30 | Topics: *Recognizing and documenting different types of materials. APA Style. |
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| February 6 | Topics: *Finding and evaluating books. Using the library catalog. Using NetLibrary. >READ> Library Catalogs, Traditional and Online. Boolean Searching. Weekly Quiz in Blackboard. |
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| February 13 | Topics: *Finding and evaluating books (continued). >READ> Finding and Using Reference Materials Using Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc. Weekly Quiz in Blackboard. |
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| February 20 | * Finding and evaluating government publications. Using the library catalog to find print and online government publications. >HANDOUTS IN CLASS>. Government Documents NO QUIZ THIS WEEK. |
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| February 27 | Midterm Exam. (In class in Blackboard) | |
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Finding and evaluating government publications. Using Lexis Nexis and Thomas. |
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| March 12 | *Finding and evaluating articles from magazines, journals, and trade publications. Using library databases.. >READ> Using Indexes to Find Current Information. Searching Online Databases. General Purpose Databases: What To Expect and How To Use Them. Fulltext -- Expanding the Library's Collections. Weekly Quiz in Blackboard. |
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| March 19 | SPRING BREAK... Enjoy! | |
| March 26 | *Finding and evaluating articles from magazines, journals, and trade publications (continued). Research Project Distributed NO QUIZ THIS WEEK. |
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| April 2 | *Finding and evaluating articles from magazines, journals, and trade publications (continued). Begin Research Project Now. NO QUIZ THIS WEEK. |
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| April 9 | *Finding and evaluating Internet documents. Using Google, Google Scholar, and Google Books. |
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| April 16 | *Finding and evaluating Internet documents (continued). Research Project Due. Final Weekly Quiz in Blackboard. | |
| April 23 | Topics: *Documenting Internet sources and media. Course Review and Wrap-Up. | |
| April 30 | Final Exam. | |
