Greetings from Portland, OR, where I’m participating in the Criblib Unconference and the Association for College & Research Libraries Conference. Today you discussed – and searched in – library catalogs and databases. I hope everyone made good progress on finding useful resources for the annotated bibliography and research paper. On Monday, March 30 we’ll discuss techniques and strategies for evaluating information. Steeve has volunteered to show us all how to use the citation management feature in MS Word. For Monday, please review the following 2 websites in advance of class:
UC Berkeley Library, Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
Cornell University Libraries, Critically analyzing information sources.
Your blog post builds on your in-class searching exercise; since you already have an assignment due on Monday 3/30 — the final version of the research topic proposal — this blog post is due by Tuesday, March 31 at 10 a.m. Please write one research journal blog post in response to this prompt:
Do a search on your research topic in at least one internet search engine and one library database. What words or phrases did you use to search? What are the similarities and differences between the results of your two searches?
The final version of your research topic proposal is due on Monday, March 30.
~Prof. Leonard
