Corrections and updates to the Library Research Workbook, 2007/2008 edition revised (with the red cover).

Please make the corrections in your copy of the workbook:

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How to answer NewsBank questions:

The NewsBank search screen has recently been reconfigured. Notice that the drop-down boxes on the left allow you different options for searching the newspaper. If you type in a subject with no dates the results will be ordered by the most recent articles first.

1. Under America's Newspapers, select the Tribune
2. Leave All Text in the first option box.
3. The box after the connector (and) shows Date as the default. Leave it.
4. In the box after Date (under the Search box) put in the date May 16, 2007.
5. Type Los Osos Sewer in the Search box (to the left of the word Search).
6. Choose Search.

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(After question 28)

1. Click on the back button until you return to the NewsBank main page.
2. From American's Newspapers, choose California Papers.
3. Choose the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News by checking those papers.
4. There was an oil spill in somewhere in California in April, 2004, but you don't know where it happened. Leaving the defaults in the drop-down boxes, type 'oil spills in California' in the Search box and the date April 2004 after the Date box.
5. Select Search. Check the articles your search found and answer the following question.

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Question 50 (answers should read as follows):

1. Both sites are very biased
2. One of the 2 sites is biased and has a particular agenda
3. Neither of the sites is biased at all
4. All web pages are biased

Workbook Evaluation URLs

Be sure to click on the right URL for the question you are working on!

Questions 45-46: click on the following URL: (first 2 DHMO questions) http://www.dhmo.org

Question 47: Click on the following URL to get to the Librarians' Internet Index: http://lii.org

Question 48: Click on the following URL to answer the question (1st global warming) http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

Question 49: Click on the following URL to answer the question (2nd global warming) http://bruderheim-rea.ca/warming.htm

Question 50: Go to each of the following sites to answer the question:

1. Water Where You Live - http://www.epa.gov/ow/states.html
2. Tough to Swallow - http://www.ewg.org/reports/toughtoswallow

Question 51: Click on the following URL to answer the question. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html

Question 52: Click on the following URL and answer the question http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/

Question 54: Click on the following URL and answer the question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Additional Links and Resources

Many college and university library pages have current information on search engines, subject directories, and Internet resources. Some sites have tutorials on searching the Internet and evaluating Web pages. See below for a selection of some of these sites, but feel free to explore library pages from other academic institutions.

• Internet Searching - how to perform Internet searches
• Search Engines - a list with links
• Meta-search Engines - search more than one search engine at a time
• Search Engine Evaluation - 5 links to good evaluation sites
• Subject Directories - a long list with links to a variety of subject directories
• Internet Tutorials - links to tutorials on all aspects of the Internet
• Readers' Guide Tutorial
• Evaluation of Internet sites
• Cuesta Library Pathfinders and Class Resources

Workbook Resources (in electronic format)

• Checklist for Evaluating Information Sources
• Magazines vs. Journals - How are they different?
• MLA Style Rules
• Print Resources (word | pdf )
• Electronic Resources (word | pdf )
• Sample MLA Works Cited Page (word | pdf )
• How to Disable Automatic Hyperlinking in your Works Cited Page
• Citation Examples
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)