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Notes from today, and questions for Wednesday 11/30

The final version of the research paper is due by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, November 30. To prepare the final version, please review the drafts I distributed and be sure you delete all comments and changes using Comments and Track Changes in the Review ribbon in MS Word. For formatting and other questions, please refer to the guidelines as well as the template and the checklist I distributed by email last week. If you have questions not answered by these documents please get in touch early; do not wait until Tuesday night.

There is no reading assignment for Wednesday. We will be talking about the future of information, and to prepare for class discussion, please consider how you would answer the following questions:

•Has the way that you think about information changed over the course of this semester?
•Has the way that you use information changed over the course of this semester?
•How?
•What do you see as the future of information?
•What challenges will this future bring?
•What opportunities?
•Are you ready?

BE PREPARED to discuss your answers in class.

Groups for the online documentation project were established:

Rudolf, Lissette, and Manish

Marc, Chris, and Lukasz

Wale, Randell, and Nityah

Carla, Yan, and Sebastian

Jonathan, Wendy, and Tarik

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

Notes from today, and reading for Wednesday, November 16

On Wednesday we’ll begin to discuss the rationale for documentation and citation. Please read Hauptman pp. 7-13; if you missed class get the book on reserve in the library (call number PN171 .F56 H38 2008), as well as Howard, Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight

The research paper draft is due one week from today, on Monday, November 21 at the beginning of class. Please get in touch early if you have questions or issues about the research paper draft — do not wait until the weekend.

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard