Category Archives: LIB1201

Wrapping up: online documentation project and presentations next week

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Groups will present their online documentation projects on Tuesday 5/21 and Thursday, 5/23. If any groups would like to rehearse their presentations outside of class time, please contact me so we can find a time that works for everyone. Groups … Continue reading →

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Groups for the online documentation project

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today everyone organized into groups for the online documentation project: Virgilio, Ricardo, Luis, Bryan Jessica, Harpreet, Alae Joe, Jovianne, Carlos Erica, Tojo, Rob Hamadi, Julissa, Shamekia On Thursday 5/9 and both days next week we will meet in A540, the … Continue reading →

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Research Blog 3

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Bryan

When doing the annotated bibliography, I would have to say it was a pretty simple task to complete. Finding the sources for my research topic took some time though as there were some sources that did not relate to the … Continue reading →

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Research Journal 2

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Bryan

Whenever searching for scholarly journal articles online, often I would use Google and Google Scholar in order to look for them.  For Thursday’s class, we did experiment using the laptops to find online sources for our research papers.  I did … Continue reading →

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4 important parts of a search engine

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Bryan

If we want to find specified information in a database, the most common method to use would be the search engine, otherwise known as an information retrieval (IR) system. Examples of search engines include Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Blekko, and many … Continue reading →

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Rising Folksonomies

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Bryan

Folksonomy is frequently prevalent nowadays, considering masses of people are on social media websites. The classic use, basically, of folksonomy, is for users create their own set of tags to classify their entries or photos. ‘Facebook’ is the most trending … Continue reading →

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Free access to knowledge?

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Bryan

After the creation of the Internet, information was much easier to obtain now than in the past. However, not every information source is free as shown by the JSTOR articles where users must pay a fee to access them. What … Continue reading →

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Plagiarism and Questions

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Bryan

Plagiarism is when someone copies another person’s work and tries to pass it as their own. Though it is not a crime, plagiarism is still a serious, immoral offense that can get you expelled from academic institutions or fired from … Continue reading →

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Reason for Copyright laws

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Bryan

“Copyright” is deemed as something of wrongdoing and breaking the law; however, people never actually see more to what the word really means. It is a legal concept, which is enacted by most governments, thus giving the creator of an … Continue reading →

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Benefits and Disadvantages of Wikipedia

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Bryan

‘Wikipedia’ is a search engine and an internet encyclopedia supported by the Wikipedia foundation. It is evidently an affinity for many because almost every information people week can be found on Wikipedia. The advantages are: finding information in a concise, … Continue reading →

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