244 LISB

217-333-3804

For LEEP: 800-252-1360 ext.33804

Dan Tracy, Librarian  101-B SSHEL

Sandy Wolf, Library Operations Assoc. 312 Main Library

GSLIS Room 244 (next to IT Help Desk) or online

Spring 2013

January 14 - May 1

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Monday - 3:30-5:00pm

Tuesday - 10:00am-12:00pm

Wednesday - 3:30-5:00pm

Thursday - 2:30-4:30pm

Friday - 9:00-10:00am

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Assignment (reprinted from the 502 syllabus):

The following list includes journals, professional associations, government departments, foundations and not-for-profit companies, among others. The list is obviously just a beginning and, in some instances, I have given you choices—select only TEN of the numbered entities (in some cases you have a choice within that number).  Please summarize its relevance to LIS by providing answers (in sentence/paragraph form) to the following questions.

1. What is the overall purpose and function of this entity—what does it do?

2. Provide a brief  (1-2 paragraph) description of how it might be useful to you in your LIS-student role.  [For example, does it have publications or conduct research that might be useful.]

The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to a range of publishers, organizations and companies important to LIS and to guide you to the types of information it can provide to you as you learn more about this field.

1.  U.S. Government Printing Office

2.  Andrew Mellon Foundation or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or Carnegie Corporation of New York or the McArthur Foundation or the Pew Research Center

3.  Library Quarterly or Library Trends or Publishing Research Quarterly or Library and Information Science Research or First Monday

HINT:  Find journals through the Online Journals & Databases tool at: http://openurl.library.uiuc.edu/sfxlcl3/az

4. The Library of Congress (U.S.) or Bibliothèque nationale de France or another national library of your choosing

HINT:  There's a list of national libraries in Wikipedia.

5.  OCLC

6.  JSTOR or Project MUSE or MEDLINE/PubMed

7.  The American Society for Information Science and Technology or the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing or the American Library Association or International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions or another national library or information science association of your choosing

HINT:  Check these sites for links to more library associations:  List of library associations in Wikipedia or Professional Associations in the Information Sciences.

8.   Library Journal or Information Today (the weekly trade newspaper) or Publishers Weekly or LISNews.

HINT:  Find magazines through the Online Journals and Databases (OJD) tool: http://openurl.library.uiuc.edu/sfxlcl3/az9.   The Institute of Museum and Library Services or the National Science Foundation.

10.  The Internet Archive

11.  Hack Library School or Library Society of the World [or any other fascinating blog/active discussion website in LIS you discover—spend some time exploring]

HINT:  Use the LIS Virtual Library's blogs page to discover more LIS blogs.