You have logged into LIB 111 - Section 5 for Thursday, March 20th, 2008

 

Today's lesson deals further with the use of subject encyclopedias and other types of reference sources.  It will also include a brief introduction to the library's online catalog.

The following resources are used in today's lesson:

An presentation on reference sources at http://library.truman.edu/Lib111/Reference/engage.html.

We will also look briefly again at the subject encyclopedia article on advertising at http://www2.truman.edu/~dmcgurk/Lib111/advertising.pdf.

 

 

At the end of today's lesson, the following link will become active.  This is the class exercise worth 10 points.

http://www2.truman.edu/~dmcgurk/Lib111/Ex2.doc

This exercise makes use of an encyclopedia article from the Encyclopedia of the United States in the 19th Century.  It is available at http://www2.truman.edu/~dmcgurk/Lib111/labor.pdf.