Monthly Archives: November 2015

Week Twelve – Field Experience – Library Associations

Does the person you are job shadowing belong to any Library and Information Science professional association? If yes, which one(s)? Why?   I did not have a chance to ask my job shadow host if she belonged to any Library

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Week Eleven – Field Experience – Client Services

What rules, regulations, laws or structures govern the operation of your placement library? How does this governance structure affect client services?  Describe the client services available at your placement.   The only type of structure that governed the operation of

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Week Ten – Field Experience – Technical Services

Describe the technical services areas at your field placement and how technical services are delivered (eg. outsourced, in-house, centrally managed). How are they similar to the descriptions discussed in class? How are they different?   All of the materials are

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Week Nine – Field Experience – Role of the LIT

Describe the workplace setting and role of the LIT at your placement. How is it similar to the description discussed in class? How is it different? Include a job description for the person you are job shadowing and use this

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Week eight – Field Experience – overview

Describe your first day orientation. Identify explicit and implicit employee rules or procedures you learned on your first day. Explain how you learned the implicit rules. What are the placement organization’s goals regarding library and information services?   My first

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Jing Learning Object Pathfinder Assignment

Video: http://screencast.com/t/80pbPcp1 Storyboard: academic search premier tutorial

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Blog Post 8 – Client Services – Group Work Evaluation

Reflect on your small group assignment in Client Services 1 then answer the following questions: 1. What worked well? Why? 2. Did having class time to work on the assignment help ensure your group was successful? Why? 3. Group work

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Blog Post 7 – Client Services – Events and Programming

Reflect on the events and programming at St. Luke’s, the Oshawa Community Museum and Archives, as well as the various activities discussed in class today. Choose ONE activity or event that you did not explore in class and either: Option

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Blog Post 8 – Fundamentals of Info Services – Reference Interview Worksheet – Precision Ratio

Answer the reference question assigned to you. Record the steps you take to answer the question on the Reference Interview Worksheet – PrecisionRatio that is posted in DC Connect. Posted legible pictures of pages 5, 6 and 7 of your

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Blog Post 7 – Intro to LIS – Archives, museums, records mngt and special libraries

Reflect on our visit to the Oshawa Community Museum and Archives, the archives notes you read for homework, the records management presentation, the panel discussion with our special guests, and the group presentations made by your class-mates this week. What

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