ESF 200: Information Literacy

Welcome to ESF 200

Announcements:

Welcome back to campus and welcome to ESF200. You will find the schedules for my classes below. Above you will find links to most of the course materials you will need.

Jim Williamson
jlwmson@esf.edu

 

Schedule of Classes

Schedule of Classes                                                 Jim Williamson

ESF200 – Section 01                                                103A Moon Library

Spring 2008 TuTh 9:30-10:50                                 jlwmson@esf.edu

                                                           

1          Tuesday            Jan. 15              Me: Introduction to Course and Topic Selection

            Meet: Conf. Room                                    You: Unit 1 – Topic Selection & Unit 2 Library Basics

                                                            Us: Library Basics

 

2          Thursday           Jan. 17              Us: What is information? Knowledge?

            Meet: Conf. Room                                    Me: Resource Literature

 

 

3          Tuesday            Jan. 22              Me: Library Catalogs/SUMMIT/Search Strategy

            Meet: Conf. Room  move Cluster   You: Unit 4 – Catalog Searching – Begin

 

 

4          Thursday           Jan. 24              Us: Catalog Searching and Search Techniques

            Meet: Cluster                             You: Unit 4 – Catalog Searching – Finish

 

 

5          Tuesday            Jan. 29              Me: Serial Literature – Indexes, Abstracts and Databases

            Meet: Conf. Room  move Cluster   You: Unit 5 – Serial Literature Begin

 

 

6          Thursday           Jan. 31              Us: Serial Literature continued

            Meet: Cluster                             You: Unit 5 – Serial Literature – Finish

 

 

7          Tuesday            Feb. 5               Me: Non-library Sources, copyright, plagiarism

            Meet: Conf. Room                                    Us: Obtaining factual information when needed

                                                            You: Unit 6 – Additional Resources – Begin

 

8          Thursday           Feb. 7               Us: Internet Searching

            Meet: Cluster                             You: Unit 6 – Additional Resources – Finish

 

 

9          Tuesday            Feb. 12             You: Sharing Internet Resources

            Meet: Conf. Room                                    Me: Bibliographic formats, style manuals, biblio. Software

 

                                                           

10         Thursday           Feb. 14             Me: Final Project – Your Search & course review

            Meet: Conf. Room                                    You: Final Project – Your Search

                                                           

 

Final project and any materials still owed due:  March 7