April 7 Introduction and Connectivity (Pt. I)

April 9 The Library’s place on the Internet, Tutorials & Handbooks

April 14 Customizing & Navigating Netscape/Internet Explorer (IE)

April. 16 Email Accounts (Pt. I & II)

April. 21 Portals, Start Pages & Homepages, Bookmarks/Favorites

April. 23 Library Reference Sites; (Email assignment due)

April. 28 Beyond Surfing and "Thrashing" Search Engines & Subject Directories (Pt. III)

April 30 Search Engines & How They Work (Text p.3-16); Writing Procedures

May. 65 Choosing the Right Key Word; Boolean Searching (Text p. 17-22)

May. 7 Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Searchers (Text p.35-42);

May. 12 Concept Mapping (Part III p.14-19)

May. 14 Midterm Exam

May. 19 The Big Five: Google (Text p.79-96)

May. 21 Alta Vista (Text p. 53-78)

May. 26 Holiday

May. 28 Yahoo (Text p. 157-176); (Procedures assignment due)

June. 2 Fast (AllTheWeb/ HotBot/ Lycos) (Text p.97-156)

June. 4 MSN (Text p.205-216)

June. 9 Specialized Search Engines & Gateways (Text p. 229-288)

June. 11 The Invisible Web; Library Resources & Proprietary Databases (Pt. IV)

June. 16 Finding info through Mailing Lists, Usenets, FTP, Telnet, Email

June. 18 Evaluating Resources, Citing Web Sources, Netiquette

June. 23 Pornography, Privacy & Censorship Issues. Final Review

June. 25 Final Exam

Assignments: Due Dates: April 23 Email assignment; May 28 Procedures assignment

Grade Basis: Midterm 20%, Final 40%; Assignments: Email 10%; Procedures 15%

Grading Policy: A = 90 – 100; B = 80-89; C = 70 – 79; D = 60 – 69

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