Critique #4 and Weeding project

Yesterday I was able to complete my last critique. I wanted to find one about copyrighting b/c it looks like our next project is going to be about copyrighting. It was called Digitizing 101. It basically was telling how you should always give ownership to anything that is transferred into an electronic format. Putting older historical documents on an electronic format can make viewing these items much easier...but you always have to remember to find the source or owner of the document before it's formatted into an e-format.

I am just beginning the weeding project. I have a shelf list printed from my librarian at school. I have chosen the 500s section. Or actually the 523s. I emailed Dr. Nita to see if I starting this project correctly! We'll see!

Controversial Project

Tonight I met with my group in the Computer lab at school. We were finally able to come up a brief outline of how we want to put our power point together for our topic. After we decided on an outline we began to look deeper for related articles. Our topic is controversial religious issues in school libraries. We are planning to talk about the history of religious book banning, misrepresenations in religious books, bias views in religious books, and incorrect information in religious books. These three main areas are reasons why religious books get censored. Some examples that we'll use will come from "The Da Vinci Code", "The Golden Compass", "Big Mama Makes the World", and "Hey God, It's Me Magaret". We are going to break up the power point into different sections that we will each take turns talking about for the presentation. We also decided to make a loud statement with wearing matching T-shirts! It's going to look good! We found some video clips on You Tube that will work well in the slide show.
I was really beginning to worry about this project, b/c we all seemed a little confused...but we really got the ball rolling tonight!! And we were able to put together a few slides!!

Work, Work, Work

So far these week I was able to get my critique #3 finished for this class. I am so glad that I got the research critique out of the way last time. Because this selection tools project is requiring a lot of time. I don't mind the selection tool project. I am learning a lot from all of the tools. Today I went to talk to my librarian to see which one that she uses the most to look for reviews and ordering for the school library collection. She uses Follett Library Resources or Titlewave( which is part of Follett). She also mentioned Permabound. I am going to check it out online. She doesn't do any ordering from actual books, everything is online. Most of my tools that I'm working on are online tools. I have found that many of the journals and catalogs have websites that you can pay to use as well. I have a little over half of this project completed. I was hoping to work on it again tonight, but too many other things going on ...so I thought I would write up a quick blog.

For the censorship project, I have been trying to find some articles on ERIC and I am trying to get a book from the ASU library. I'm not sure if I filled the thing out right to get a book. I"ll have to email about that. Our goup is going to try to meet sometime this week to work on our power point. We all don't feel like we are doing enough for this project and I think we're all a little confused still of what to do!! We'll learn as we go I guess!! I can't believe the semester is almost half over!

Overwhelmed

Okay this pressure is on....

So I finished my critique on Sunday night. I went ahead and did my research article for this time around. I figured things are going to get a little more hectic around here.
I did a research article on the study of sex education & the public library. The author researched three libraries and interviewed them with four main questions. Most of the librarians did not see the public library as the place to teach sex education, only a place to find resources and information about sex education. It was quite interesting!

The next thing I've worked on this week is my policy and analysis project. I have pretty much finished, but I haven't looked over it yet. It is due next Tuesday. I'm not sure if I actually accomplished the assignment correctly! We'll see!

I hope to do my readings over the weekend!