Getting to know you
In class:
-Course overview, introductions
-Skills survey
Getting our bearings
In class:
-Library tour

Assignment: Course goals. Due Sept. 13.

Getting our bearings (cont.)
In class:
-Library Web Tour
Sources of information and the role of libraries
In class:
-Comparing information sources
-primary & secondary sources

Assignment: Read Organization of Knowledge (Minneapolis Community & Technical College )
Read Lesson 2 only (Introduction, Classification Systems, Subject Headings, Quiz. Do go through the online quiz, and bring any questions that arise) Due Sept. 20.

Organizing information
In class:
-Ways of organizing -- Let me count the ways!

Assignment: Library of Congress Tutorial. Read and do online quiz at the end.

Introduction to the library catalog
In class:
-LC Call numbers - find books by call number

Subject Headings
In class
-Look at subject headings - Book cover activity

BANNED BOOK WEEK (Survey)

More Library Catalog
In class
-search options
-relevance & boolean searching

Assignment:Read "Taking Charge" (e-reserve) and complete study guide. Due Oct. 4.

Research process & Choosing a topic
In class:
-go over Annotated Bibliography project
-begin choosing a topic

Finding background information
In class:
-Reference
-CQ Researcher
-Specialized encyclopedia

Assignment: Find background information on your topic (Due Oct. 11)

Refining a research topic
In class:
-turn a topic into a research question

QUIZ Oct. 13

Assignment: Research question for your bibliography (Due Oct. 20)

Introduction to documenting sources and plagiarism
In class:
-citing sources using MLA Style
-plagiarism quiz

Selecting and using books
In class:
-Parts of a book
-citing and annotating a book
-in-text citations

Assignment: Find & annotate a book on your topic (Due Oct. 25)
Optional: for more on Plagiarism go through San Jose State's excellent online tutorial (click on "Guest" to login)

Selecting and using journal articles
In class:
-using databases
-locating articles
-scholarly vs popular articles

Assignment: Find & annotate an article on your topic (Due Nov. 3)

Specialized databases
In class:
-explore specialized databases

Assignment: Prepare database presentation (Due Nov. 3)

In class:
- Database presentations

In class:
-Continue database presentations
Citing articles
Newspaper databases

More on databases
In class:
-SearchSpot

Review

QUIZ Nov. 17

Finding and evaluating websites
In class:
-search engines
-subject guides
-web evaluation

Compare:
martinlutherking.org
www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Assignment: Find and annotate a website on your topic (Due Nov. 29)

More on websites
In class
-the many facets of Google

Specialized Research
In class:
-reviews
-biographies
-statistics
-government documents
-reference databases

Beyond McIntyre Library
In class:
-ILL, UB, other libraries

Annotated bibliography due December 8

Wrap-up, evaluations