Contemporary Issues 50
Information & Academic Libraries

WEEK 1
3/28 Introductions, syllabus review, course overview; Search Strategy concept.
3/30 Library Jargon, Orientation to UCSD Libraries, Classification and call numbers.

The Question

WEEK 2
4/4 Introduction to Reference Works. (Assignment 1 handed out.)
4/6 Finding Books using Catalogs; ROGER, SD Circuit, MELVYL Catalog, WCAT.

WEEK 3
4/11 Controlled vocabulary. (Assignment 1 DUE)
4/13 Finish Roger. (Assignment 2 handed out.)

WEEK 4
4/18 Finding magazines and journalsarticles using indexes. Differences between magazine and journal articles.
4/20 Final Term Project discussion. (Assignment 2 DUE)

WEEK 5
4/25 Continue CDL; limits, boolean operators, displays. UCSD databases.
4/27 Building citations & the importance of accurate documentation.

WEEK 6
5/2 Finding Newspaper articles. (Assignments 3 & 4 handed out.)
5/4Evaluating information.

WEEK 7
5/9 Finding and using Government Documents. (Assignments 3 & 4 DUE)
5/11 Finding Biomedical Resources.

WEEK 8
5/16 Changes in scholarly communication. Listervs, Newsgroups.
5/18 Special Collections

WEEK 9
5/23 Introduction to the Internet. Brief history. Introduction to finding web resources. Directories, library pages.
5/25 WWW search engines

WEEK 10
5/30 Evaluating Web resources.
6/1 Last day of class; Review. Last chance for Term Project questions.

FINALS WEEK
Final Exam: TBA