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Jan 10 | Welcome Overview of course
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Jan 15 | The concept / construct of information
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Jan 17 | Information Seeking in Real Life
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Jan 22 | Information Organization: Categorization
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Jan 24 | Info Tools: Academic Search Complete - a general bibliographic database
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Jan 29 | Scientific and scholarly research publications
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In class we will read: |
Jan 31 |
Analyzing scholarly research publications
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Feb 5 | Info Tools: General reference and background info
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DUE: Brief analysis (1-page) of the menu-labeling article assigned to your group in class using the format and questions provided in the Reading and Analyzing a Research Article guide. |
Feb 7 | Using large data sets Descriptive statistics overview
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Feb 12 | GSS Lab
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Feb 14 | Data to Story Project Work
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Feb 19 | Info Tools: Background information
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Project Teams [docx] |
Feb 21 | Class Cancelled | |
Feb 26 | Info Tools: Specialized literature databases
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Mid-term exam [.docx] distributed in class - Due by March 7 at 5:00 pm In-class team work on group projects |
Feb 28 | Info Tools: Statistics and demographic information
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Student status reports distributed In-class team work on group projects |
Mar 5 | Citation Indexes: Web of Science
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DATA TO STORY PROJECT: DESCRIPTION DUE Watch: Yale Medical Library tutorials:
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Mar 7 | No class | Mid-term exam due by 5:00 pm
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Mar 12 | Spring Break | relax, no class! |
Mar 14 | Spring Break | relax, no class! |
Mar 19 | Literature searching lab | Guest speakers from the Undergraduate Library: Jonathan McMichael, Undergraduate Experience Librarian and Ellie Boote, Research Services Librarian |
Mar 21 | Bias in Information Seeking
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Guest speaker: Earl Bailey, PhD Student, SILS Required viewing before class: Cognitive Biases: What They Are and Why They're Important This video podcast presented by Dr. Kevin deLaplante provides a nice overview for our in-class discussion today. Please contribute your thoughts/questions to our class discussion board on Sakai. |
Mar 26 | GSS/SPSS Work Lab
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Mar 28 | Online privacy and identity
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Ap 2 | Info Tools: Primary Sources
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Please spend some time exploring these digital archives and collections and post your observations and questions on our discussion board in Sakai.
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April 4 | Archives and special collections
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After an introduction to the special collections at Wilson Library, we will be handling and reading documents from the Federal Writers' Project Papers, 1936-1940. This collection contains the life histories of about 1,200 individuals, written by about 60 members of the project after one or more interviews with the subjects. Persons interviewed, many of them African Americans, described life in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Matt Turi, Manuscripts and Archives Research and Instruction Librarian, will be our host. |
Ap 9 | Ethics in information use
Using APA style Using citation management tools
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Ap 11 | Citation JEOPARDY! |
DATA TO STORY PROJECT: SEARCH LOG DUE
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April 16 | Human Information Behavior
Special presentation in Wilson Library How "Community" Matters: Uncovering the Social Dynamics of Health Information Behavior in Everyday Life by Dr. Tiffany Veinot
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DATA TO STORY PROJECT: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
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April 18 | Class Wrap-up and preparation for group presentations | Distribute Final Exam [docx] due via email to Rachael by Sat May 4 at 3:00 pm |
April 23 | Data to Story Projects: PechaKucha Presentations
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April 25 | Data to Story Projects: PechaKucha Presentations
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May 4 |
Final Exam due by 3:00 pm |