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Research:
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Library
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Research:
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ASSIGNMENT #1
Name___________________________
Part I - Topic Ideas
Part I of this assignment is designed to help you begin organizing your thoughts about the topic for the final project. Answer the following questions as completely as possible. Use the back if you need more room.
1. What ideas do you have for a topic or what is your proposed topic?
2. Try to write your idea in one clear sentence or pose it as a question.
3. What are the key concepts/issues that you are interested in examining?
4. Breakdown the concepts and issues you identified into as many synonyms as possible and write them below.
5. What kinds of information/material do you think you will want to use in order to fully research your topic (e.g. books, reference books, articles, images, recordings, statistics, government documents, newspapers, webpages, etc.)?
6. Is there anything else that comes to mind?
Part II - Exploring the Library Webpage and Merlin
Part II of this assignment is to help you begin exploring the library webpages and Merlin, the online catalogue. Use the Web version of Merlin to answer questions 9-11.
7. What is the URL for the library's Webpage?
8. From the library homepage, click on Instructional Services then click on University and Extended Ed courses, then click on Univ 292/Eng 292.
• What is the URL for that page (this is our class webpage address)?
• Click the Previous Research Topics link. Name one past research topic that strikes you as interesting. What do you find interesting about it?
You need to use Merlin to answer the next few questions. To log into the Web version of Merlin, you need tstart from the library's homepage (http://libweb.sonoma.edu) Click the Library Collections link, then click the Merlin Online Catalog link. Now you are in the library catalog.
9. Do an author search for the term Picasso.
• How many titles are there for Pablo Picasso?
• List the 3 other authors you find (author entries)
10. Do a title search for the term Picasso.
• Would you estimate this search gave you more or less than 20 records?
• Who is the author of the book Picasso: Life and Art?
• Where is the book located?
11. Do a subject search for the term Picasso.
• How many titles are listed under the biography sub-heading?
• Where are they located?
• What are the call numbers?
Part III - EMAIL Exercise
Send me an email response to the following questions. A few sentences is fine.
1. Why are you are interested in the Humanities?2. What topic are you thinking of researching? Why are you thinking of this topic?
3. What is your favorite movie?
Send your answers to Karen.Brodsky@sonoma.edu