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Final Exam Question #1, Librarians' Internet Index Librarians' Internet Index offers a weekly newsletter, New This Week, which contains all the entries added to the Index in the last seven days. http://lii.org Visit the Librarians' Internet Index site Scroll through the New This Week Select a site that interests you. Does the LLI description adequately describe the site? Visit the site that interests you and tell me the name, who is responsible for the content, and something you learn. Question #2, Library of Congress Go to the Wikipedia website and search for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Library of Congress Where is the Library of Congress located? Is it a very large library? How many employees? What is the annual budget? Hint: look for a gray box on the Wikipedia page Question #3, Library of Congress ok! We are looking at a HUGE! library Begin at the Library of Congress homepage http://www.loc.gov/index.html Resources For... Select Researchers Next, select Copyright Office Find and open the category Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Lost? http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/ Can I copyright a website? Question #4, Library of Congress Return to the Library of Congress homepage http://www.loc.gov/index.html Who is the current Poet Laureate? Tell me the title of one of his books. Hint: look for the Poetry link on first page. Hint: or return to Researchers page and look for poetry. Question #5, SCIRUS for Scientific Information Only I recently heard that polar bears are at risk because of the global warming trend. Go to the Scirus homepage http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ Look at your search options. We only want journal sources. So uncheck any web sources. Search: polar bears and global warming Look through the results. Find a full text article. What is the title of the article? What is the source of the article? Tell me something about polar bears and global warming. Question #6, Medline Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ My heel has been hurting. The doctor told me I had Plantar Fasciitis Search: Plantar Fasciitis in Medline Plus Are there any exercises I can do? Question #7, Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html Go to the above site which is part of the UC Berkeley Teaching Library Scan up and down the page. Tell me something you learn about discovering who wrote a webpage. Hint: scroll down to #2 Question #8, Google Define Feature Begin with Google http://www.google.com In the white search box enter define: philosophy Briefly, what is the study of philosophy?   Question #9, De Anza College Library Website Begin with the De Anza Library Homepage http://www.deanza.edu/library/ Look for and open the link: Research Databases Scroll all the way to the bottom and find Philosophy Pages Tell me something about Plato Still at the Philosophy Pages site... We want to find out who is responsible for the information on the site. Tell me who is responsible. Hint: look at the FAQs You have finished LCEN 53! If you have any questions about the final, or if any of the links don't work, please let me know. Please take a minute and complete the class evaluation. I have just updated the entire class and would truly appreciate your feedback. Thanks.