INF 100 - Second Assignment


Required Readings and Activities:

Do this tutorial on the evaluating internet resources called "The Internet Detective." You will have to register and log in. Expect to spend a couple of hours on this tutorial.
http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

Read this article in Searcher by Gary Price, written at the end of 1999 on myths relating to the internet. It was written primarily for information professionals, but should be interesting for students as well:
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan00/price.htm

Study this quick, web-based PowerPoint presentation on Library of Congress (LC) Call Numbers:
http://www.library.csuhayward.edu/staff/li1010/handouts/callnumber/index.htm.

Carefully read Chapter 2 in Introduction to Information Research, "Information Technology," pages 21-38.

A couple of the questions below are based on the web sites for the NHU Library and the San Jose State Library. You can access them here:
http://nhu.edu/library/
http://library.sjsu.edu

Assignment based on the readings:

Please answer the following ten questions in the form provided. Your answers will be emailed to the instructor. Each question is worth five points.

Your name:

Your email address:

From the Internet Detective:

What are three questions you need to ask when evaluating electronic journals?

What are three questions you need to ask when evaluating organizational sites?

From the article by Gary Price:

What is "The invisible web?"

What is a "metasearch tool" and what are some of their weaknesses?
(You may have to go outside the article for the definition of a metasearch.)

From the LC Call Number presentation:

Put these five call numbers in the correct order, using the numbers at the top:

1.2.3.4.5.
HDHDHDHDHD
2.220202.222
.A22.A22.A7.A7.A72

On the SJSU Library web site

Who is the subject specialist for Education at the SJSU library?

On the NHU Library web site

What is the URL for the page to ask the NHU librarian a reference question?

What is the ultimate consequence of not turning in books or paying fines to the NHU Library?

From the reading in An Introduction to Information Research

What is a "server" (in terms of computers)?

What is the difference between "the internet" and "the world wide web?"

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