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Comments on the 5 Books about Google Assignment

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Stephen Francoeur

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

 

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Clarification about Reading for September 14

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Stephen Francoeur

In looking at the list of items on reserve for our class, I can see that there might be a disconnect between what the syllabus tells you to read for September 14 (Wednesday) and what is actually listed on reserve. Please read the following two items listed on the course reserve page for my section of LIB 1015:

  • Watts, Margit Misangyi. “I Wonder If…Doing Research,” in College: We Make the Road By Walking. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007. 221-226.
  • Watts, Margit Misangyi. “Understanding Scholarly Conversations,” in College: We Make the Road By Walking. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007. 209-210.

These two items are the 3rd to last and the 2nd to last ones on the list. Do not read the last item on the list, which is from a previous semester and is taken from an older edition of the book.

If you are going to the course reserve page from off campus, clicking on the link should first present you with a login page from Baruch that says “Newman Library – Baruch College / Remote Authentication” and asks you to type in your Baruch username and password. Once you get past that login page for the course reserve system (it’s a white page that says “LIB1015 – Information Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (Fall 2011) – Francoeur.” I gave out the password for this page in class; please email me or a classmate if you have forgotten it.

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Welcome to LIB 1015

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Stephen Francoeur

This is the course blog for the fall 2011 section of LIB 1015 taught by me, Prof. Stephen Francoeur. You can find useful links for the course on the course links page of this blog. Please note that the main website for this course is not in Blackboard but at:

http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/lib1015

On the course website, you will find the latest version of the syllabus, links to websites and tools we will use in classroom activities, and detailed descriptions of homework assignments.

As a class, we will build this course blog together, adding our questions, insights, links to notable websites, and more.

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