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6 2/9 |
In
preparation for class on the 17th, read the text chapter 7, and have a look at
the readings and resources about Words, prepare the
questions there for discussion. Be
sure to contribute your source choices to this Catalyst survey. In
preparation for class on the 19th, read the text chapter 11, and have a look
at the readings and resources about People,
preparing the questions there for discussion. Be sure to contribute your
source choices to the
Catalyst survey. |
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3 1/20 |
In
preparation for class on the 27th, read the text chapter 8 and have a look at the
readings and resources about Serials,
preparing the questions there for discussion. Be sure to contribute your
source choices to the
Catalyst survey. |
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2 1/13 |
In
preparation for class on the 20th, read the text chapter 5 and have a look at
the readings and resources about Everything,
preparing the questions there for discussion. Be sure to contribute your
source choices to this
Catalyst survey. |
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1 1/6 |
Read
the IPL information for students.
Follow through their training materials (your IPL id’s will be
assigned by IPL World HQ when you complete training). Also, answer these questions which we’ll discuss briefly in class on
the 6th. For
class on the 8th, read
these: ·
Chapter
6, “Handling Reference Questions”, from Wyer, Reference
Work, ALA 1930 ·
Taylor,
Robert S. “Question-Negotiation and Information
Seeking in Libraries” College &
Research Libraries 29, 178-194, 1968 ·
Dervin &
Dewdney, “Neutral Questioning: A New Approach to the Reference Interview”
Reference Quarterly, 25 (4),
506-513, 1986 ·
Buckland,
Michael, “Reference Library Service in the Digital
Environment”, Library &
Information Science Research 30 (2008), 81-85 ·
Curry,
Evelyn, “The Reference Interview Revisited: Librarian-Patron Interaction in the Virtual
Environment”, Studies in Media
& Information Literacy Education 5(1) (2005), 1-16. ·
Kinney,
Bo, “Answering the Right Questions: The Virtual Reference Interview”, Alki 26(2), 2010 ·
chapters
1 and 2 of the text As you read these,
be thinking about these questions: Ø
What is
the “reference interview”? Ø
Why is
it so hard? Ø
Why is
it so important? Ø
Why
isn’t it done more often? Ø
And…can
you find examples of similar phenomena in other virtual domains (other than
libraries) ? What other
organizations, institutions, professions, individuals, are concerned with
eliciting similar or related kinds of information from clients as a necessary
part of working with them? What
instances can you find that you think information people could profitably
learn from? In
preparation for class on the 13th, read the text chapters 4 and 14 and have a look at the
readings and resources about Books, preparing the
questions there for discussion. For
this set of resources (and for others which will follow), you should look
them over and then find ones you think might be best suited to answer the
questions listed on the page. Be sure
to contribute your choices to this Catalyst survey. Also
for class on the 13th,
look through the Suzzallo Reference stacks in the
Z’s, see what’s there, and bring one to class (you’ll have to grab it right
before class in Allen Aud). Notice
that not everything with a Z call number truly fits in this category—why
not? What else is in there? Why? For
class on the 15th, think
about the Web searching you do on an ongoing basis, and make lists of
circumstances and situations where you thinking searching the free Web (using
Google, Bing, etc) would be most advantageous, and
when it would be least productive or useful.
In addition, read through these: • How
today’s college students use Wikipedia for course–related research
by Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, First Monday 15 (3), 1 March 2010 • Reference
Work Eleanor B. Woodruff, Library
Journal 22 (conference issue) 65-67, 1897 • and chapter 3 of the text Also, please read this draft chapter I wrote a while ago but still kind of
like. |