Welcome to the course website for LIB 1201, Research and Documentation for the Information Age. I will use this site to communicate about readings, assignments, and deadlines, and you will use it to blog about the required readings and research and to comment on your classmates’ blog posts. This site will host links to course readings and assignments and be the primary place where we communicate outside of class.
We are one of the first courses to use OpenLab, an open learning platform developed especially for teaching and learning at City Tech. The pdf version of the syllabus is available to download, and I will distribute paper copies on the first day of class.
Copies of William Badke’s Research Strategies, the textbook for this class, are available in the college bookstore. A copy of the book is also on reserve under the call number Z710 .B23 2008. An eBook (for Nook, Kindle, and as a PDF) is available for $8-10 from the publisher’s website. Please use either the third edition (2008) or the fourth edition (2011).
By our next class meeting on Wednesday, August 31, you must create an OpenLab account using your City Tech email address. You can change your preferred email in your OpenLab account once you have created your account. Once you have created your account, I’ll add you as members of the class and as authors of the course blog and you can begin blogging. Your first blog post, a response to the assigned readings, is due on Wednesday. See the blogging guidelines for more information about blogging for this class.
~Prof. Leonard
