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LIBRARY & RESEARCH SKILLS. GNED 500 Global Citizenship: from Social Analysis to Social Action 26 Jan 2011 sot Tom Kokkinias , Instructor; Liz Dobson, Librarian. Social Action Project. Sample topics: Pollution Peak oil Cars and the environment Equality & inequality Poverty War Etc. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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