October 20, 2008

Scholarly is written by an academic and has had extensive research done on the article or topic. There usually is a works cited after the article citing where the information came from. These articles are more reliable for research topics because they are more reliable. These articles have minimum opinion in them and are not bias.

Popular is written by a journalist who has done research but not as extensive as done on a scholarly article. There is usually no works cited at the end of the article. There also may be some opinion about a topic in the article not just fact reporting and the articles can be bias.

Definitions October 16, 2008

Periodicals- published at regular intervals more than one day.

circulation- an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit or flowing.

Reference Collection- collection of objects maintained for the purpose of the study of authentication.

Public Good-?

Blog- a website for the public to write on a topic, anyone can

Blog Post- the post, commentary made on a blog site about a topic

Primary Sources- a source from the actual event or at the time for example a journal of someone in the holocaust.

Secondary Sources- analysis of the event or topic for example the book on the holocaust that has been researched.

Tertiary Sources- written work based on secondary sources and not at all by primary sources

Government Documents- a federal government document that has all the requirements for distribution through the fdlp but was never sen to the government printing press so it is not distributed to libraries.

Archives- place where historical records are kept, the records are of any medium

Library Catalogue- means by which all books, dvd’s, cd’s ect can be found at the library

Brief Record- information shown about book or whatever the medium maybe, for example the author, call number, publication, does nto show all bibliographic record

Full Record- shows all bibliographic record

Subject headings- subjects in which the book or dvd can be found under.

Library of Congress Classifications- classification used in university libraries, classified by 20 catagories.

Dewey Decimal Classification- classification used in public and grade school libraries, classified by subject.

PURL- persistent uniform resource locator- does not show the location of the source but the intermeidiate location when redirected

Boolean Operators- system of logic that was designed for the user to use words or phrases that represent concepets

Truncation- symbol and abbriviation of a word that narrows down and broadens search

Concept map- map of concpets

Searching- act of searching, look for information

Browsing- look for information on the internet

Scope- journal that specializes in writting summeries.

examples of reference:

    –thesuarus- gives synomyms

     –quotations- reference of source

     –The Bible- religious reference

Authority- necessary for organization in any kind of organization, enterprise, ect

Wikis- web application that allows users to add information or their own two cents

Interlibrary loan- allows librabries to borrow material

Worldcat- an online catalogue with a ton of materials

Microforms- microfiche, microform–photographs that are minimized on to different mediums.

Annotations- brief summary about a source along with a citation.

Citations- formal credit given to the source of the information used

Part B October 11, 2008

Social internet blogs such as Facebook and Myspace have become less private over time. I derived this hypothesis in part A.

Finding books on specifically Facebook and Myspace was extremely difficult especially on their history. To find a book in the UNCW library catalogue I was forced to broaden my search to “privacy on the internet.”

Solove, Daniel. The Future of Reputation, Gossip, Rumors and Privacy on the Internet. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.

Need for Internet Privacy Legislation: hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First session, July 11, 2001. Washington: U.S G.P.O, 2006.

class review October 8, 2008

The class I enjoyed was book censorship. I had no clue how many books have been challenged especially classics like To Kill a Mocking Bird. I enjoyed the way the class started, maybe because i was late but right when i walked in we were about to read a story i had no clue what about. Towards the end of the story i understood why Ms. Radom was reading the story but it was a nice surprise or change. To possibly make the class a little better, maybe do a more interactive activity than pick a side and argue. It might have been just my class but we all seemed to agree. I learned that people think very differently and take offense to many different topics. Its good to respect others opinions but also i hope that some can open up their minds and learn to repspect that others may enjoy reading about “socially unacceptable” topics.

September 26, 2008

The topic i choose for the annotated bibliography is privacy in the digital age. I choose this because of the growing popularity of Facebook and how Facebook is changing over time. Slowly but surely Facebook has become less private. I would like to narrow the topic down specifically to Facebook and Myspace their history of how they changed over time, with change both of the cites became less private. My hypothesis would be that internet blog sites, specifically Facebook and Myspace have become less private over time. Where were these sites when they first became prevalent? Have there been other sites like these that have failed in the past, if so why did they fail and have there always been privacy issues?

wikipedia September 17, 2008

This article is called “Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade” by Brock Read. He writes about how wikipedia does not give priority to professors and those in the profession of the topic. He did an experiment on if wikipedia would catch errors made on various searches. He reported that they were caught within hours of writing them. I learned that wikipedia has editors. I already knew that anybody could post whatever they would like about a topic but i did not know that it was validated. This proves that wikipedia is not as unuseful as I thought. Most of the information on the site is validated, however i still would not fully trust wikipedia for a research paper.

eicher reading September 3, 2008

The title of this reading is “Primary sources: Handle with care–but DO Handle”. It is obviously about primary sources and different types and kinds. It explained how something could not be a primary source or a reliable and how to verify, for example, by looking at when and where the source was written in relation to the topic being researched. The source could have been written weeks or years later than the actual event being reported, not making the source as reliable as some other source written only hours after the event or topic being reported on. I did not particularly learn that much about primary sources because I was taught about them and how to use them in high school. I did learn that the assasination of Lincoln is told in many different variations. I do believe primary sources are very important to research information because thats how we know the details and series of events that actually occured within a certain event, history.

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