Geography 492:
Library Research in Geography
Weekly Schedule Fall 1998
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| Week | Date | Topic | Prepare | Assignment |
| 1 | Mon. Sept. 28 | Course Introduction: Libraries Organize Knowledge | Read: Mason, Marilyn Gell. (1996) "The Yin and Yang of Knowing." Daedalus 125 (4) 161-171.
Guidelines for Abstracts. ANSI/NISO Z39.14-1997 | 150-200 word abstract of Mason's article. Turn this in on Monday Oct. 5 |
| Weds. Sept 30 Yom Kippur | Suzzallo/Allen Library tour Meet at the Allen Library Information Desk (circular desk near the flying birds) Marino Deseilligny and Al Fritz, both Reference librarians in Suzzallo will be your guides. | Read the "Introduction" of
Information Cycles tutorial
http://weber.u.washington.edu | ||
| 2 | Mon. Oct 5
| Publication
Cycle; Research as a Process
Discuss Mason's article and Writing Abstracts | Read: Haring, L. Lloyd et al. (1992) Introduction to Scientific Geographic Research. 4th edition 1-13, 131-150 Petrowski & Wilson. (1993) Research Guide: Introduction to Library and Information Skills. 7-15, 22-23. | |
| Weds Oct 7
| Tertiary Sources (Reference Books) Ethical Use of Information & Citation style | Read: Cochrane, Wendell. (1984) "Abstracting the essence", Geowriting. 37-39. Select one essay on your specialty within Geography (preferably published since 1990) from one of the following: Progress in Human Geography [Suzzallo Periodicals GF1 .P76] Progress in Physical Geography [Natural Sciences Periodicals G1 .P686] | Write a 150-200 word indicative abstract for the article you have read. Turn in with complete citation in Author/Date style (see Chicago Manual of Style, p. 637). Be sure to identify the author's argument.
Abstract due Monday Oct. 12 Short activity with encyclopedias and dictionaries. Also due Monday Oct. 12. | |
| 3 | Mon Oct 12
| Online Catalog & LCSH Online Searching Techniques | Read: Manguel, Alberto. "Ordainers of the Universe", IN A History of Reading (1996), 187-199 Chapter 4 "From Questions to Problems", IN The Craft of Research (1995), 48-63. | Assignment Due Monday Oct 19 |
| Weds. Oct 14
| Biographical Sources and Book Reviews (Secondary Sources) | Read: Chapter 6 "Using Sources", IN The Craft of Research (1995), 73-84. |
Due: Weds October 21. (to be included in final project) | |
| 4 | Mon. Oct 19 | Periodical Indexes Online Searching Techniques Evaluating Sources: Popular and Scholarly | Read:
Petrowski & Wilson, 82-83. | Assignment
Due Wednesday October 28 (was October 26) |
| Weds. Oct 21 | Electronic Discussion Groups | Read: from the newsgroup news.announce.newusers
|
Identify, subscribe to, and monitor a list on your specialty within
Geography. Geography Newsgroups and Listservs, a list from the UT-Austin Virtual Geography Dept Tools for finding lists also includes info on how to use lists successfully Report Due Monday November 30. | |
| 5 | Mon. Oct 26 | Web Page Workshop, with information on UW systems. | Optional:
Writing HTML; or How DoThey Do That With HTML? |
Due Monday Nov 2: Send personal url to instructor - personal page must include link to your final project proposal. |
| Weds. Oct. 28 | ||||
| 6 | Mon. Nov. 2
Tomorrow is Election Day | Web Search Engines
Searching the Internet
| Read Vileno, Luigina. (1997) "Geography resources on the Internet." College & Research Libraries News. 58 (7), 471-474. Feldman, Susan (June1998)Web Search Services in 1998 Ebsco Online, 6 (6) | Due Today: Final Project Proposal (was due October 26) |
| Weds. Nov 4 | Copyright - guest speaker Thom Deardorff, Head of
Access Services & Copyright Officer, UW Libraries Meet in the Allen Auditorium, Suzzallo Allen Library (near the flying birds) |
Read: Samuelson, Pamela. (1995) "Copyright & digital libraries." Communications of the ACM. 38 (3) 15-21, 110 | ||
| 7 | Mon. Nov 9 | Cartographic Information guest speaker: Jenny Stone, GIS Librarian, UW Libraries Meet in the Maps Collection, basement, Suzzallo Library | ||
| Weds. Nov 11 Veterans Day | No class | |||
| 8 | Mon. Nov. 16 | Evaluating Web Sites |
Assignment
Due at the end of class | |
| Weds. Nov 18 | Government Publications: Federal, Local / State | |||
| 9 | Mon. Nov 23 | Government Publications: International | Due: Annotations for web sites you will include in your final project. | |
| Weds. Nov 25 | Statistics - Handbooks | Read:
Stratford. (1992) Chapter 8, "Data compilation and presentation." 112-133. IN Major U.S. Statistical Series: Definitions, Publications, Limitations. | ||
| 10 | Mon. Nov 30 | Digital Libraries Guest speaker: Geri Bunker, Interim Associate Director for Resource and Collection Management Services, UW Libraries Meet in the Allen Auditorium, Allen Library Lobby (where the birds are flying) | Read: Schatz & Chen. (1996) "Building large scale digital libraries." Computer, 29 (5), 22-26. Smith & Frew. (1996) "Alexandria digital library." Communications of the ACM, 38 (3), 61-62. | DUE: Report on your email list monitoring (assigned Weds Oct 21). |
| Weds. Dec 2 | Statistics - Census | Read:
Hoeffel, John. (1995) "Shrinking the census." American Demographics, 17 (10), 32-37. Hoeffel (1995) "Life without the census." American Demographics, 17 (10), 38-42. | Due: Annotations for government publications you will include in your final project | |
| 11 | Mon. Dec 7 | Citation Indexes | ||
| Weds. Dec 9 | Course Evaluation | Final Project Due |
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