library & research skills

GNED 500 GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: FROM SOCIAL ANALYSIS

TO SOCIAL ACTION 26 JAN 2011 SOT

TOM KOKKINIAS , INSTRUCTOR; LIZ DOBSON, LIBRARIAN

LIBRARY & RESEARCH SKILLS

Social Action ProjectSample topics: Pollution Peak oil Cars and the

environment Equality & inequality Poverty War Etc

Richard Florida, U of T professor &author of The Rise of the

Creative Class

GNED 500: Social analysis to social actionWorld electricity map (Source: NASA photo – 5 Oct 2008)

World electricity map (detail)(Source: NASA photo – 5 Oct 2008)

OECD countries (2009)

World Energy Consumption (Source: International Energy Agency (2008)

OECD - Approx 50%

OECD Population & World(Source: OECD World Factbook (2009)

17.7%

World Population Chart1950 – Projected 2050Source: International Monetary Fund ,2004)

Hybrid & electric cars: will they make a difference to the

environment?

Library resources……

library.centennialcollege.ca

Distance Access

Choose your topic & make sure it is clearly defined

Step 1

Start your research ► Get background information – Internet,

encyclopedias, books…

Get research reports & tune into the issues and debates - electronic databases (‘e-resources’) for journal & newspaper articles , Internet (selected sites)…

Need to revise your topic?

Once you have done some searching, you may find that you will need to revise your

topicPossible Reasons: You can’t find publications on your topic Your topic is discussed, but not in the way you

expected Your topic is too general – you discover that it has too

many aspects (‘sub-topics’) to handle in one essay You see a lot of material on a related aspect that you

find more interesting and/or more practical

Google Scholar – for academic journal articles on the Internet

Google Books – for e-books on the Internet

Personal contacts…

Research help……

Purdue University Library – Online Writing Lab (OWL) website on APA style…

PLAGIARISMAbout

Your essay normally includes 3 types of material…

1. Your ideas

2. Your summaries of others’ ideas and facts

3. Quotations from your sources

(MLA Handbook, 2009)

From: Centennial College Academic Honesty and Plagiarism Policy

E-resources in the library (journal & newspaper articles, & specialized databases) …

…

About databases & journal articles…

Databases:Licensed electronic

resources - many let you search tens of thousands of articles at one time

Journals: Published in issues

regularly (weekly, monthly, etc.)

Each issue contains several articles (essays) by different authors

About databases & the Internet – what’s the

difference…? Internet Quality varies widely Inherent commercial bias Huge Limited user search tools

Databases (E-resources) More academic info, more

consistent reliable quality Commercial free Big Precision tools for searching

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Sample record in a database – Note: FIELDS

Manage your results…

print, email, save, etc…

Sample APA style

citation from

Research Library

database (ProQuest vendor)

Sample APA style citation from

Academic Search Premier database

(EBSCO vendor)

Sample search for full text articles in a database…

Sample search for full text articles in a database…

ORBoolean operator that collects

ANDBoolean operator that

combines…

LIMIT tools – e.g. fields

More LIMIT tools available to you – a sampling here…

EXPANDER tools – remove a limit – e.g. remove Scholarly (Peer reviewed Journals)

EXPANDER tools – e.g. thesaurus

EXPANDER tools – e.g. multiple database searching

EXPANDER tools – e.g. truncation *

Saving your searches…

Managing your results…

Go to Folder…

Books (print & electronic) & videos in the Library…

…

Websites……

Is C&EN website reliable?

Media literacy……

Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University (Chester, Pennsylvania) – a 10-minute av program, Evaluate Web Pages

http://www3.widener.edu/Academics/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659/

Ithaca College Library (Ithaca, New York)Website evaluation exerciseshttp://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think7.html

@ College St & University Avenue, Toronto

A look into the Internet’s future…? Today, the Internet is

governed, in large part, by a private corporation It’s called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a California-based non-profit that handles tasks such as approving domain suffixes such as .ca for Canada, as well as other technical and policy issues…

A look into the Internet’s future…? However, the next billion

people to hop on the Internet will be from places such as Nairobi and Mumbai, not California. And increasingly, governments are pushing to replace ICANN – a group historically aligned with the U.S. Dept. of Commerce – with a UN-style body in which multiple nations have a direct say in how the Internet is run. A clear front-runner has emerged: the United Nations International Telecommunications Union

Source: Globe and Mail (Nov 13, 2010)

At the ITU’s most recent conference [Oct 2010]…Russian delegates proposed a motion that would see ICANN’s government advisory council replaced with a UN-approved body. The move was seen as a first attempt to shift control away from ICANN and toward emerging powers such as Russia and China.

Google Scholar – for academic journal articles on the Internet

Google Books – for e-books on the Internet