I’ve now graded everyone’s homework that asked you to list five books about Google and break down the call number using the outline of the Library of Congress Classification system. If you go into Google Documents and find your homework, you should see my comments on the side of the document, including your grade. As with all homework assignments, you can earn a maximum of 50 points. For this assignment, I was making sure that each book was actually about Google (a few of you selected books that weren’t really about Google) and that you had broken down the call number into the broad and narrow topics that are indicated by the number.
These are the things I hope that you noticed as you worked on the assignment:
- all the books on Google are not in one place in the library and are instead scattered around in different subject areas, such as:
- HD28 – HD70: Management. Industrial management
- HD9680 – HD9714: Mechanical industries. Including electric utilities, electronic
industries, and machinery - HF5801 -HF6182: Advertising
- K85-K89: Legal research
- LB1025 – LB1050.75: Teaching (Principles and practice)
- TK5101 – TK6720 (Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television)
- Z674.7 – Z674.83: Library information networks
- the full call number indicates what is usually a fairly narrow topic
- there are a wealth of topics related to Google that you may want to investigate further for your final project in the class
