Geography 207

Building a Resource Page

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/207/99/resourcepage.html)

Objectives: This project-oriented assignment is really one we want to work on all-quarter. It has three main objectives, namely, to give you opportunities to

1. learn Library and Information Resource Skills
2. get a start on a project in which you have some interest for personal or professional reasons; and
3. contribute to an Internet based resource system which will be useful to future generations of students.

Themes or Topics:

The focus of the assignment should be a theme related to one of the following planned or anticipated activities (which themselves may not be part of this class, such as a "senior project" or some project for your "portfolio"):

1. a future research activity
2. a Business Plan
3. a Consulting Report
4. a detailed application for an Internship or a Volunteer (e.g. Service-Learning) activity which does not yet exist (but which you want to create, define and prepare for yourself).

Process for Building your Resource Page:

There will be ample opportunity to work on this assignment during "Class - Intermissions" and during those class periods when we try to develop our resource skills (see class calendar). The length of your "Resource Page" should be the equivalent of at least two regular pages. It will be due, in digital form, during the last week of the quarter (stay tuned).

Content:

Your Resource Page should contain appropriate bibliographical (including Internet) references to publications which are informative to you, to your anticipated project and to other students "out there". These references should be

• appropriate to what you are planning to do
• appropriate within the general, academic context of this class
• diverse in the sense that we want to try to learn about and utilize different kinds of sources (consult: Types of Information Sources)
• of "high quality".

Please identify those items or references which you have actually consulted, i.e. you have checked them out or seen the original in toto, and have read at least parts of it.

You will find further help and suggestions in the following pages:

• Information Resource Skills: by types of tools & skills and by levels (Nyerges et al.)
• Internet Search Engines
• Main Library Page
• Library Logistics Page
• Topical Resource Lists
• Geog 207 "Case Study" suggestions (including Business Plans etc.)
• How to Evaluate Web Sites?