Electronic Information Sources
JOMC 50

Course Schedule: Summer 1996

Subject to change as the technology and our thinking about it evolve...

Watch the online edition of this schedule, http://www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/ for new notes or links every week, especially before lab sessions...*latest revision, June 20, 1996*

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Week 1

• Monday, May 20 -- Introduction to the course and to one another.
  Student Evaluation and Computer/Library experience survey.
• Tuesday, May 21--Discovering the Library
  Books, card catalogs, Library of Congress Subject Headings,
  Introduction to keywords, online catalogs, databases.
  Introduce Topic Proposal Assignment (handout)
  More information about the syllabus
  
  • Assignments:
  • If you don't have an Email account or having problems with one,
    create one at any computer lab or contact the OIT help desk at 300 Wilson Library !
  • Readings: If you have not used a Macintosh before, please read Macintosh Basics and Macintosh Getting Started. These WWW documents are designed to accompany free short courses offered by the Office for Information Technology. (highly recommended if you have time).
    These publications can be printed from the Web, and are also available as handouts from OIT at 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library. If you are new to using computers at UNC, also get a copy of OIT's Computing in the Humanities handout, or see the Web version. If you have computer and modem, you also should read the OIT Web documents Connecting to UNC-CH.
• Wednesday, May 22 -- Using Computers for Your Information Search
  • Q & A on topic assignment
    See the Citation style guide for your topic assignment.
  • Using Netscape and Telnet to reach the library.
  • What's S.E.A.R.C.H.?
    
  • The Boolean Search
    
  • OIT Web page about online research.
  • Using Netscape and Telnet to reach the library --hands on.
  • Doing online research and taking notes on the Macintosh with SimpleText, TeachText or Microsoft Word.
  • Saving your own bookmark list, notes and bibliography on your Mac or PC disks.
• Thursday, May 23 --Topic Proposal Assignment Due
• Difference Between Browsers: Lynx and Netscape
• See a lynx version of the syllabus
  • Gathering Information in Libraries
    
  • Class Handout on Gathering Government Information
    
  • Class Handout on Gathering Information about Companies
    
  • Alta Vista's Early History of Computers and the Internet
    
  • And then, An Exciting Intro to Computers:
    Bring a Macintosh disk for the "It was Bob's idea" Computer Quiz
    .
  • Distant sources: The Library of Congress
    
  • Frequently Asked Questions about the Web.

Week 2

• Monday, May 27 -- Memorial Day (observed) Holiday; no class

• Tuesday, May 28 -- Short Review for Exam on Thursday Please read General Suggestions for All Tests and Objective Tests. Exponential Growth of the Internet and a short history of the Web, hypertext and online publishing
  Introduction to Search Engines such as Yahoo
  What's Yahoo?
  
  The name Yahoo! is supposed to stand for"
  
  • Yet
    
  • Another
    
  • Hierarchical
    
  • Officious
    
  • Oracle"
    
  Some other search engines?
  Find friends, colleagues, and old roommates for free at Switchboard
  Finding people Gopher sites
  Finding people Four 11 directory services
  Finding people A More Comprehensive List
  
• Privacy in the Digital Age
  
• We Know All About You: Search for yourself on the Net
  

• Wednesday, May 29 -- Davis Library Tour including Government Documents and Basement, with library staff and Deb.
  Also: Electronic Services
  Virtual Reference Desk
  Microforms Collection
  Ask a Reference Question
  Please assemble near front door of Davis Library.
  

• Thursday, May 30 -- First Exam

Week 3

• Monday, June 3 --
• Hands-on Internet
  
  • Web addresses (URLs) and Email addresses
  • Telnet, Pine and MailDrop for Email.
  • Review of Email addressing and Web address (URL) systems
  • Exam Results

• Tuesday, June 4 -- Distant Government sources:
• The Library of Congress
  
• Federal, state and local agencies. For example, North Carolina State Government, Orange County, and Chapel Hill.
• Sample government Web site starting points:
  Thomas, the Library of Congress source for government information, and The White House home page.
  
• Lexis/Nexis Assignment Announced and Discussed
  

• Wednesday, June 5:
  Special session:
  • Mastering Lexis/Nexis with Gary N. Pattillo and Pam Dutcher,
    Electronic Services Reference Librarians.
    
  • Difference betweenCD-ROMs and U-Search
    Don't miss this!

    Please assemble at Conference Room# C of Davis Library. Ask the Davis Library Reference Desk if you do not know where it is!
    

  • Thursday, June 6 -- Free Time for Lexis/Nexis Assignment
    Because Lexis/Nexis service is not available from
    our usual lab, this will be a take-home assignment and there
    will be no formal meeting of the class on Thursday, June 6.
    You are expected to work on this assignment during the free class time .
    

Week 4

• Monday, June 10
• For next two class sessions, please read Internet Authoring handout from OIT and Policies, Creating WWW Pages at UNC-CH . These WWW documents are also available as handouts from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.
• Intro to writing HTML
  
• Text-only/ASCII. (pronounced "asskey") is short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, and as the name suggests, ASCII or "text only" files are the easiest way to move information from one kind of computer to another (including from the Macs to a PC or a UNIX machine like ISIS, the Email server.)
  
• Making a Web page on your disk the easy way, using templates. Here are three samples:
  Bob's "Steal this" home page
  Bob's "resume" template and
  Treasure Hunt Template.
  

• Mid-semester review

• Tuesday, June 11 -- Web Page: Content and Design issues
  
  • Telnet to ISIS and use wwwstart to set up your environment for creating World Wide Web pages
    Designing a new medium: Pictures on the Page by Rich Beckman, photographer and visual communication expert.
    
  • Internet Authoring: How and Why?
    We'll also be asking ourselves why anyone should create personal Web pages in the first place. One possible answer mentioned in the lab notes is "to use a page as an Annotated Bibliography."
    Lexis/Nexis Assignment Due
    

    For the class, please read: Internet: Introduction and Internet Browsing. These WWW documents are also available as handouts from OIT, 402 Hanes Hall or 300 Wilson Library.

  • Connect to the UNC-CH online catalog for Business and Academic databases.
    
  • The Culture of Commerce, Business and Academics
    
  • Business information on paper and online
  • Where government and business meet: EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval) and SEC documents
    Hoover's most popular Web sites for free business information.
  • Business publications online: Information Access Company's database InfoTrac

  • Identifying flagship companies
    
  • Academic resources and abstracts
    
  • OCLC and OCLCFirst Search and Carl and CarlUncover
    In class, we'll look at some of these sites (or browse on your own):
    
    • Frequently Asked Questions about the Web
      
    • The Library of Congress
      
    • OIT Web page about online research.
    • The Atlantic Monthly online
    • Internal Revenue Service
    • The New York Times
    • CNN Interactive
    • CNN Interactive covers today's news
    • Nando Net
    • Geek Girl magazine on the web.
      
    • Short exam review
      
  
  

• Wednesday, June 12 -- More Web Stuff!
  • Fetch-fest with Ranjeev Singh:
    Bring your photo & favorite graphic!
    Understanding just enough UNIX
    Using Fetch to put your pages online
    What is "raw data"?
    Read the OIT handout Putting Your Page on the Web
    JPEG, GIF and graphic formats
    Scanning pictures
    
  • Bring your disks!
  • In class we may use an updated version of HTML headings, lists,links. and the resources it points to.
    
  • Other web page creation resources:
    • OIT Handout: Web Page Advanced Design
    • OIT Web Page Guidelines
    • Background colors, as indexed by infi.net
    • RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart
      This color chart can be used to simplify the selection of hexadecimal color specification when preparing Web pages for browsers that support colored text and backgrounds. It has been reformatted in a more logical manner.
    • Netscape's free collection of background texture files
    • Dave's free collection of bars, images, buttons, balls and bullets by Jen.

• Thursday, June 13 -- The second test

Week 5

• Monday, June 17 -- Work on your Web Pages
  • Second test results
  • Privacy in the Digital Age
  • We Know All About You: Search for yourself on the Net
  • FAQ: How To Announce Your New Web Site

• Tuesday, June 18 -- Web Projects

• Wednesday, June 19 -- EIS Oscars

• Thursday, June 20 -- Summary and Evaluation Meet the EIS Internauts of Summer 1996 at the Web address: http://www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/sum96.html

• Final Examinations

  Section 1:

  11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Monday, June 24, 1996, for JOMC 50.1

  Section 2:

  11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25, 1996, for JOMC 50.2

Dr. Deb Aikat daikat@email.unc.edu