When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. -Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)
Monday, March 24th
CLASS WILL BE HELD IN THE HICKS UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY, G959 (the iLab).
Jennifer Sharkey, Assistant Professor of Library Science, will be our guest lecturer. Please make every effort to be on time for this presentation.
Due: Your Hicks Undergraduate Library Tour sheet and map. Hand them to me as you enter the iLab.
The rest of the CORE (Comprehensive Online Research Education) Tutorial
1) Go to the Purdue Libraries website.
2) Under "Research Help," click on CORE (Comprehensive Online Research Education).
3) Create an account so that you can send your quiz scores to me, return to your work, and keep track of your CORE progress. Remember (or write down somewhere safe) your login and password for this account you've just created. Always use this account on your CORE tutorials.
4) Send your quiz scores directly to me. As a safeguard, you should also send your quiz scores to yourself. (My email: lhaynes@purdue.edu)
Conferences: Tuesday, March 25th & Thursday, March 27th
Bring LBH and the work you have been doing toward your project. We will discuss the direction of your research and the work you've accomplished so far.
Wednesday, March 26th
Today we'll discuss anything you need to talk about concerning Professor Sharkey's lecture from Monday.
Your reading for today in Refuge is: Pages 77-152 (Ravens, Pink Flamingos, Snow Buntings, White Pelicans, Yellow-Headed Blackbirds, Redheads, Killdeer, Whistling Swan, Great Horned Owl, Roadrunner, Magpies, and Long-Billed Curlews.)
You are dying to know more about Starlings, aren't you? This link will tell you all you care to know about sturnus vulgaris. In fact, if you'd like to know more about any of the birds in Refuge, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is the place to look.
LIbraries Catalog
Indexes
Computer Lab: Friday, March 28th
Today we'll cover writing your formal proposal, creating your research timeline, and assembling and formatting your annotated bibliography.
Internet
Evaluating Sources
Wrapping Up