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Today. Interlibrary loan presentation and signup for ILLiad with guest Greg Curtis Fogler Library website demonstration Review Critical Views of Wikipedia Lecture on information overload & information anxiety Assign homework & readings. Navigating Fogler Website. OneSearch

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  1. Today Interlibrary loan presentation and signup for ILLiad with guest Greg Curtis Fogler Library website demonstration Review Critical Views of Wikipedia Lecture on information overload & information anxiety Assign homework & readings

  2. Navigating Fogler Website • OneSearch • URSUS + many licensed databases • Great if you are looking up a specific reference • Not very good for topic searching (in my opinion)

  3. Navigating Fogler Website • URSUS (& MaineCat) • Books & e-Books, government documents, records & CDs, videos, microforms, periodicals • Some reserve items, if from our holdings • NOT journal articles • Reserves • Placed by teaching faculty for their students • Usually their personal copy, not the library’s • Many in PDF, accessible by password

  4. Navigating Fogler Website • Subject Portals & Databases • We’ll get to these in a couple of weeks!

  5. Illiad: Interlibrary Loan Will not usually charge a fee, but sometimes a fee is necessary No guarantee of delivery, no guarantee of delivery time; most will be filled and many will be filled within a week Anything can be requested: books, DVDs, microforms, primary source documents, etc. Items that can be easily scanned will be Request will be rejected if local holdings available

  6. URSUS & MaineCat Requests Request items from any URSUS or MaineCat library with your MaineCard No need to use Illiad for these requests, if the item status is “Available” Otherwise okay to use Illiad

  7. Critical Views of Wikipedia Giles, Jim. "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head." Nature 438, no. 7070 (December 15, 2005): 900-1. Wallace, Danny P., and Connie Van Fleet. "The Democratization of Information? Wikipedia as a Reference Resource" Reference & User Services Quarterly 45, no. 2 (2005): 100-03. Waters, Neil L. "Why You Can't Cite Wikipedia in My Class." Communications of the ACM 50, no. 9 (2007): 15-17.

  8. Critical Views of Wikipedia Why did you choose the article that you selected? How did you find the article? What is Wikipedia and why is it relevant? What is the article’s thesis or its main arguments regarding Wikipedia? Based on this article and on your own experiences, would you trust the information that you find on Wikipedia for writing a paper for a college course?

  9. Finding an Article from a Citation • Three ways to find: • OneSearch – if you know the title of the article, this may be the fastest way to see if Fogler has electronic access to it. • URSUS by Journal Title (NOT article title) – If OneSearch didn’t find it, try searching URSUS for the journal’s title and see what holdings we have in print. • Google or Google Scholar – Expect to run into pay walls, there are ways around the pay walls, which we’ll cover in a later class.

  10. Finding an Article from a Citation Find the article: Rosenzweig, Roy. "Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past." Journal of American History 93, no. 1 (2006): 117-46.

  11. Today Interlibrary loan presentation and signup for ILLiad with guest Greg Curtis Fogler Library website demonstration Review Critical Views of Wikipedia Lecture on information overload & information anxiety Assign homework & readings

  12. Information Pathologies Bawden, David, and Lyn Robinson. "The Dark Side of Information: Overload, Anxiety and Other Paradoxes and Pathologies." Journal of Information Science 35, no. 2 (2009): 180-91.

  13. Information Pathologies What once was the problem of finding enough useful information has become a problem of indentifying the best information from mountains of it; What was once the regret of not being able to read everything written is now a regret of not being able to read everything published in a specialized field of study.

  14. Information Pathologies Loss of identity, lack of authority Impermanence of information, mutability Shallow novelty; expectations of constant flow of something new leads to constant repackaging of the old; rapid creation of soundbites and microchunks overshadow more thoughtful and deeply researched material.

  15. Information Pathologies • Information Overload • Information anxiety and library anxiety • Infobesity • Information avoidance and information withdrawel • Satisficing • could be healthy or unhealthy

  16. Information Pathologies • Information overload and anxiety are not recent phenomena, but arguably are exacerbated with advent of digital age: • Quality of information extremely variable • How does one judge the quality of a work? • Quantity of information burdensome • How to keep up; what’s a reasonable expectation for what can be consumed? • Speed of publication • Expectations of immediacy

  17. Information Pathologies • Are information pathologies created by or exaggerated by information professionals? • Is Information Literacy a “solution waiting for a problem?”

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