- Course Introduction
Overview
of syllabus, schedule
pre-test
selection of term topic
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Beyond
Dewey
Libraries, Types of materials in libraries
Classification systems in libraries
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Dewey Decimal System
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Library of Congress
The Structure of Information
Search Strategy
The concept of Tools
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Background
sources
Reference materials
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Database
Searching
The Structure of a Database
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Records
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Fields
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Search string
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Known Item Searching
Topic Searching
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Controlled vocabulary
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Keyword Searching
General keyword searching
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Stop words
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Boolean Searching
And
Or
Not
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Looking
for Books
Online Catalogs
Using IUCAT to find books and other items
Types of Searches
Reading a Citation
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Call numbers, including Library of Congress Classification
system
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Subject headings, lateral searching
Boolean Searching
Advanced Searching
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Looking
for Articles
Periodicals
Definition and benefits of use
Popular vs. Scholarly
Print vs. Electronic
Journal Databases
Locating in Schurz Library
Interlibrary Loan
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Looking
for the Best Articles
Advanced Periodical Searching
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subject headings
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thesaurus searching
Introduction to more databases
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The
Internet
What it is, how it works
History
Ownership and control
What is the WWW
What's available on the web
uniform resource locaters
How to find things: search engines vs. directories, Meta-search
engines
How they work: spiders and robots
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Internet
Evaluation
The Best and Worst of the Internet
Propaganda, Misinformation, Disinformation
Internet Evaluation Criteria
Critical Thinking
Edited Internet Directories
The Invisible Web
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Government
Publications
U.S. Federal Government structure
Govt. Pubs. in Libraries, including Superintendent of Documents
classification system
Govt. Pubs. on the Web
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Statistical
Information
Using statistics
How statistics are gathered (census data, sampling, surveys)
Polls and how they work
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In
Style
Using & Citing Sources
Ethical use of information
Plagiarism
MLA Style
APA Style
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Advanced
Searching
Truncation
Limiting by Field
Nesting
Proximity Searching
Phrase Searching
Table of Contents Searching
Saved Searches, Search History, Alert Services
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Course
wrap-up
Term project due
post-test
course evaluation
