Remember to document your research process and to keep track of time spent.
1. Moss, "From the Pews to the Classrooms: Influences of the African American Church on Academic Literacy" 2001. Hint: this is a book chapter. Provide verification for this work through the following ways:
a) verify this citation using Tripod
b) verify this citation using Google Books
c) can the TOC of this book be found in Amazon.com? In Barnes and Noble's Web site?
When I say verify the citation, I mean give me the complete bibliographic information including book title, author or editor, place of publication, publisher, date of publication, and other relevant citation information.
2. Citation: "Development of the organization of recorded information in western civilization" Book chapter.
That's all that is known.
a) verify this citation using Google Web Search (http://www.google.com/)
b) verify this citation using Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)
c) verify this citation using Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)
3. Verify this citation:
Institution: De La Salle University; Title : Classroom language use in selected public elementary schools of Region III.; Author : Thelma C. Santos.
After you have found it, copy into your homework the full bibliographic record from the institution of origin.
4. Title: Il bestiario medio inglese : ms arundel 292 della British Library; Published in Roma, 1990. Please copy into your homework the bibliographic record from an in-country (the country in which the work was originally published) OPAC.
5. A library user is travelling to Peru and wants to do some searching in library OPACs before she goes. She is asking you to provide her with a list of these OPACs. She speaks both English and Spanish.
6. A user is doing research on gender and environmental issues in
Costa Rica and wants primary documents from international
organizations. Suggest to him some search strategies.