Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library...
-
Upload
evan-brooks -
Category
Documents
-
view
214 -
download
0
Transcript of Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library...
![Page 1: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Internet & Evaluation
Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library SWOSU
![Page 2: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The Internet is…
• a major presence in our daily lives• constantly growing• helping make an enormous
amount of information available
![Page 3: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Web Searching is easy because…..• Speed• Choice• Availability 24/7
• Always get an answer
![Page 4: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Web searching is difficult because…
• Organization• Quality control• Reliability
![Page 5: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Web vs. Library Databases• Web
– Good for current events
– Statistical Information
– Pop Culture– Opinion– Information about
Organizations & Groups
• Library Databases– Research Based
Books & Articles– Full-text Resources– Authoritative &
Peer-reviewed Materials
– Information about People & Cultures
– Easier to Search• AND, OR, NOT• Specific Subjects
![Page 6: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Remember to Evaluate!!!• Authority
– Who created it? Who is responsible?– What credentials do they hold? What makes
them qualified to discuss the topic?• Accuracy
– Can the information be verified?– Check the facts!
• Objectivity– How is the information being presented?– Is it objective or biased? What’s the point of
view?• Currency (important based on subject)
– When was it published?– When was it last updated?
![Page 7: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Step 1: Authority
• Web Pages–
Credentials/Qualifications/Reputation– Who is responsible for content?
• Webmaster?• Web team?• Organization?• Institution?• Company?
![Page 8: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Step 1: Authority: Questions
1. Do you recognize the author's name? Is there an author's name?
2. If you don't recognize the name, or there is no name, what type of information is given about the contact information? - Position? - Organizational affiliation? - E-mail address? - Biographical information?
![Page 9: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Domain Names
• Which one is right?– www.whitehouse.c
om– www.whitehouse.g
ov– www.whitehouse.n
et– www.whitehouse.or
g
• Whois.net– www.whois.net
• .gov• .org• .mil• .com• .edu• .net• .int
Indicates a reliable domain name
![Page 10: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Domain Names
Domain Names: ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has overall responsibility for managing the Domain Name System.
![Page 11: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Step 2: Accuracy
• Web Pages– Can the information be verified?
• Links to credible sites• Copyright• Works Cited• Fact check with a printed source
![Page 12: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Step 2: Accuracy
1. Does the website cite sources used to present its information? What type of sources are they? Scholarly? Popular?
2. Is it possible to verify the legitimacy of these sources?
3. If the site is research-based, does the website clearly identify the method of research and the data gathered?
![Page 13: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Step 3: Objectivity
Biased or Objective?• Sponsoring Organization• Agendas• Political Propaganda• Web hostinghttp://english.aljazeera.net/News http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.npr.org/
Do you trust the author or organization providing the information?
![Page 14: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Step 3: Objectivity
Do you trust the author or organization providing the information?
Determine what is the aim of the author or organization publishing the site.
What is the purpose of the web site?
1. Is it advertisement for a product or service?2. Is it for political purposes?3. Is it trying to sway public opinion on a social
issue?
![Page 15: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Step 4: Currency
• Web Pages– When was it created and last
updated?• Well maintained web sites have an
indication when it was last updated or modified
• Accessibility– Dead links
• Stability– Changes URLs frequently
![Page 16: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Step 4: Currency
1. Is a date clearly displayed?2. Can you determine what the date refers to?
When the page was first written?When the page was first posted on the Internet?When the page was last revised or
updated?The copyright date?
3. Are the resources used by the author current?4. Does the page content demand routine or
continual updating or revision?5. Do the links on the page point to the correct
Internet site addresses?
![Page 17: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Exercise: Evaluation Handout
• www.who.int/en/• www.dhmo.org• www.genochoice.com • www.martinlutherking.org• www.aaip.org/ • www.acusa.net/
![Page 18: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Known for providing information on web traffic
![Page 19: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
• Larry Page & Sergey Brin/ Grad Students 1998
• Mission: "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.“
• 2007: 23 Billion dollar corporation
![Page 20: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Google: A Tool like any other
Site Specific Command
What it does: searches only specific domains
What to type: nursing jobs site:edu nursing jobs site:com nursing jobs site:org
![Page 21: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Google Scholar
• Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
![Page 22: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Google Scholar
• Works best for Citations• Restrictions to Content
– Fee-based
– Often your Library already owns material
– We’re working on improving access
– Example: Tribal Colleges
![Page 23: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Wikipedia
Wiki: A Web application that allows users to add content to a collaborative hypertext Web resource (coauthoring), as in an Internet forum, and permits others to edit that content
(open editing).
![Page 24: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Wikipedia
• Jimmy Wales January 15, 2001• No Original Research• NPOV (Neutral point of view)• No owners, multiple anonymous
authors• Anyone with Internet access can
create or edit an entry…Anyone
![Page 25: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Wikipedia
• Contributors: male, English speaking, denizens of the Internet.
• Problem is not that it disregards the facts, but that it elevates them above all else.
• Most of the content is discussion/history of edits & not the entries themselves.
Rosenzweig, Roy. “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the
Past.” The Journal of American History 93.1 (2006): 117-146.
![Page 26: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Wikipedia
• Participation maps popular, not academic concerns
• It is a working community…but is it a good historical resource?
• Lack of Critical Analysis• Problematic as a sole source of
information • Like all encyclopedias…ok to start,
terrible place to stop. • Benefits are to its active participants,
not its readers.
![Page 27: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Writing Your Paper
• Writing Center– Located in the basement of the
library– Call for appointment #774-7083
• MLA Style– Style Sheets– MLA Handbook at Reference &
Circulation Desk– http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
![Page 29: Internet & Evaluation Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library SWOSU.](https://reader034.fdocuments.in/reader034/viewer/2022051621/5697bf7c1a28abf838c84517/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Thanks!