Hey all – You may find Pew Research or Pew Internet & Tech very useful for your community descriptions in the formal assignments. Their research can be very useful for background and supporting demographic data, data on technology use and access, etc. For example: Key findings about U.S. immigrants
Hey all – If you are looking for assistance with your search strategies for class, we have a new King Library liaison – Silke Higgins. https://libguides.sjsu.edu/prf.php?id=58fe5d40-7cdb-11ed-9922-0ad758b798c3 INFO 200 Lib Guide is here.
Thanks to all who attended! We covered a lot of ground with the Sources Survey, LRM and more. Hope the questions highlighted the way to navigate the assignments to culminate at the research paper. Please be sure to view this recording for a deep dive on the assignments.
This guide will help you get started with the Information Sources Survey assignment:
Greetings all! I have heard from more than a few of you that the extensions have been helpful for focusing on our 200 assignments. I am also aware that there is a lot going on for each of us and in the world too! Here is my thought: we have some time built into the […]
Don’t miss this invaluable resource from our King Library. It is custom-designed by our library liaison to help you with your work in INFO 200.
Some thoughts for you all related to a question I had about our Blog Report assignment as you work on Blog Report #3 and beyond. Start getting very serious about weaving your peer reviewed sources and studies you are finding into your posts. That will set you up to have draft chunks of your paper. […]
Greetings all! I just finished grading all the submitted LIS Theory/Model assignments. Overall, everyone did very well. You’ll find your scores in Canvas. I was super impressed with the summaries that offered strong connections to information science theory and models and other resources from our course. This will continue to be expected in the remaining […]
Hey all – If you are looking at serious leisure please take a look: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0943-7444-2003-3-4-228.pdf The Serious Leisure Frontier in Library and Information Science: Hobby Domains Jenna Hartel I am loving this table:
The Literature Review Matrix is intended to be critical exploration and evaluation of scholarly writings on a topic(in this case, your information community). In your formal research paper, the literature review provides context and background for your own study and illustrates how your research will contribute to a particular area of study.This assignment meets the […]
