LIB 127 - Course Related Materials
Dr.
Tina Hovekamp
thovekamp@cocc.edu
Check
your grade via BlackBoard by clicking here!
Week
1 – Mon 9/21 & Weds 9/23
a. A tour of the library!
b. How libraries are organized. Library of Congress
Classification.
In-class
exercise 1
Week 2 - Mon 9/28 & Weds 9/30
a. Coming up with ideas for a research project:
... the first steps
... getting help from two great databases: CQ
Researcher and Opposing Viewpoints
b. Looking critically at your sources
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Assignment #1 (due Mon 10/5) |
Week 3 - Mon 10/5 & Weds 10/7 -
Quiz 1 (Mon 10/5)
Reference
sources
In-class exercise 3
In-class exercise 4
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Assignment #2 (due Weds 10/14) |
Week 4 - Mon 10/12 - NO CLASS (non-teaching college
day) &
Weds 10/14
a. Database Searching: Subject versus Keyword searching
b. Improving Keyword searches
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Now that you know the logic behind keyword searching, I REALLY want you to spend some time practicing some of the techniques you just learned about. Be sure to take the time to use the links below before you complete your next assignment! It takes time and practice to understand and develop comfort using the different search techniques.... a. check the Boolean tutorials from Colorado State University, http://lib.colostate.edu/tutorials/boolean_info.html and Louisiana State University, http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/flash/Boolean.html. They really do not take too much time! b. here is another library web page (Loyola University, Chicago) with quick online exercises: http://libraries.luc.edu/seminar/0506/Search08.shtml. Use the link " Click to begin the search query exercise" under the door icon to start! You will then be asked to select key terms and connectors by dragging the imaginary "magnets" on the imaginary "fridge"… kind of fun! (click on the "check answer" button to receive feedback on your search queries). c. for those that might have missed it ... there are two additional exercises for you to practice with, linked right at the bottom of our course page, Improving Keyword searches. |
Week 5 - Mon 10/19
& Weds 10/21 - Quiz 2 (Weds
10/21)
a. Searching the COCC Catalog
b. Beyond local collections: Summit & Google
Book
In-class
exercise 6
In-class exercise 7
Week 6 - Mon 10/26 & Weds
10/28
a.
..more on Summit & Google Book
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Assignment #3 (due Weds 10/28) |
b. Finding Articles & using Ebsco
Week
7 - Mon
11/2 & Weds 11/4 - Quiz 3 (Weds 11/4)
a. ... more on Ebsco
and other new article databases from Gale
Assignment #4 (due Weds 11/4) b. Lexis-Nexis Week
8 - Mon 11/9 & Weds 11/11 - NO CLASS (Veteran's Day) Assignment #5 (due Mon 11/16) Week 9 - Mon 11/16 & Weds 11/18 Week 10 - Mon 11/23 & Weds 11/25 Assignment #6 (due Mon 11/30) Week
11 - Mon 11/30 & Weds 12/2 - Quiz 4 (Weds 12/2) Click
here for a tutorial on how to evaluate Internet resources. Week 12 - Finals Week Your take home final exam was posted here. The take home final
was due by
Mon, Dec 7, visits since
December 2009
In-class exercise 9
a. More newspaper sources!
b.
Browsing e-journals
a. The case of
plagiarism (let's take a break from searching! 
)
b. Searching
the free web
c. The world of Google
In-class exercise 11
In-class exercise 12
The web world to
government information
Evaluating Web pages