MANEUVER THE INTERNET MAZE
HOW TO "SOLVE" YOUR CASE
1. Define your task - what information do you already know?
2. Determine the necessary information seeking strategies to locate
information
3. Locate and access the information
4. Engage your information - READ, HEAR, TOUCH, VIEW
5. Synthesize the material
6. Evaluate
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, AND HOW
* Make the librarian your BEST friend because they know where those
questions can be answered.
WHAT ARE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY RESOURCES
*Primary resources are ORIGINAL materials
*Secondary resources are condensed, reviewed, summarized, compiled and
reported in a different source.
LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING AND DETERMINE WHETHER IT IS A PRIMARY OR SECONDARY
RESOURCE
1. a diary
2. a textbook on acting
3. an eyewitness report
4. a book on the history of clothing
5. an autobiography of Maya Angelou
6. Biography of Maya Angelou
7. Constitution
8. interpretation of the Constitution
9. a signed baseball
10. a book about sports
11. Charlie Frey's high school football jersey
12. a Charlie Frey bio on Wikipedia
PRIMARY WEBSITES
*Library of Congress
-www.loc.gov
*National Archives
-www.nara.gov
*Smithsonian
-www.smithsonianeducation.org
*New York Public Library's Digital Gallery
-http://digitalgallery.nypl.org
SEARCH ENGINES
*Single Search Engines
-www.ask.com
-www.google.com
-www.yahoo.com
*Meta Search Engines
-www.clusty.com
-www.dogpile.com
EVALUATING WEBSITES
1. Who created the site?
2. Is the site updated?
3. Is the information clear and to the point?
4. Are there ads?
5. Is it easy to find your information?
6. Realize sometimes there is NO good internet site for what you need.
THE TRUE BUT LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT WOMEN AND AIDS
http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm
URBAN LEGENDS
Urban Legends and Folklore
http://urbanlegends.about.com
Truth or Fiction
www.truthorfiction.com
LET'S PULL THIS EMAIL APART
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_so_i_volunteered.htm
1. Doctor
2. Signed: Richard L. Johnston, M.D.
University of Mississippi Medical Center
3805 Crane Blvd.
Jackson, Ms. 39216
3. Business names
4. Hateful message
COPYRIGHT - A BIG DEAL
What is copyrighted - assume everything is - including anything YOU write
-literary works
-musical works (including words)
-dramatic works (including music)
-pantomomes & choreographic (dance) works
-pictorial, graphic, and sculpture
-motion pictures and other AV works
-sound recordings
-architectural works
BLOGS - personal diary
*see Wikipedia for a good description of what a blog is and can be