Information Literacy UNL 205x

Go to the LexisNexis Academic database from the Libraries' homepage (using Databases & Indexes), then select the news tab, and leave the default at US Newspapers & Wires. Do a search on "old sites rest in cyber cemetery" as a natural language search. You should get an article from the LA Times from Sept 20. Read the article, and perhaps check on a few of the items available. Do you think this might be a good site for doing research? Do you think that it is worth the effort of keeping this information available?

The article mentions that this site only saves the work of defunct commissions and panels. Can you imagine that other government information might disappear? Might a change in presidents affect the information that is provided to the public?

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Google is developing a news site that "it hopes will make it easier for readers to read newspaper and magazine articles." It allows readers to quickly flip through news articles from quite a few publishers. Read Miguel Helft's article about Fast Flip, take a look at the site, and then post your experiences after you have tried it out. Do you think it is useful? Would you tend to use it? How did your impressions match what the article in the New York Times said about it?

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As a follow-up to the investigations you have been doing into the most effective methods for using Minerva, here is the first of the poll questions. There will be at least two more polls posted during the course, so you can select the one that you would like to respond to (responding to more than one poll is welcome, though not required).

If you were helping someone who was new to using Minerva, what 2 things would you emphasize to the person as being of critical importance? And why? Write your response as if you were actually telling the person these pieces of advice.

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