FYE - Quick Survey 2007

1. Which would you normally NOT find listed in a library catalog?

Which would you normally NOT find listed in a library catalog? a video

a book

a magazine article

2. Hartley, J.T. & D.A. Walsh. (2000) "Contemporary issues and new directions in adult development of learning and memory", in L.W. Poon (ed.), Aging in the 1980s: Psychological issues, Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association, pp. 239-252.

The citation above refers to:

Hartley, J.T. & D.A. Walsh. (2000) "Contemporary issues and new directions in adult development of learning and memory", in L.W. Poon (ed.), Aging in the 1980s: Psychological issues, Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association, pp. 239-252.

The citation above refers to:
a scholarly journal article

a government document

a chapter in a book

the website of the American Psychological Association

3. Using Google to search the internet, you would NOT expect to find (select all that apply):

Using Google to search the internet, you would NOT expect to find (select all that apply): Books available in this library

Maps with directions

Scholarly journal articles

Current breaking news stories

Financial information about companies

Addresses and phone numbers

Periodical Indexes

4. Which of the following citations describes a journal article?

Which of the following citations describes a journal article? Doctor Zhivago. New York: MGM/UA Home Video, c1988.

Mitchell, T. R. (1987). People in organizations: An introduction to organizational behavior (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Reid, J. (1993). "Prevention of conduct disorder before and after school entry: Relating interventions to developmental findings." Development and Psychopathology, 5(1/2), 243-262.

American Library Association, Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. (1989). Final report. Retrieved on April 15, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/ilit1st.html.

5. Which of the following criteria help you evaluate the content quality of a website (select all that apply):

Which of the following criteria help you evaluate the content quality of a website (select all that apply): size of font

domain - i.e., gov, com, edu, etc.

author

color or black/white

date last updated

bias

city where site is located

bibliography or references

6. How would you determine if a library had access to the following article?
Harrison, Kristen and Joanne Cantor. "The Relationship between Media Consumption and Eating Disorders." Journal of Communication. 47 (Spring 1997) 40-67.

How would you determine if a library had access to the following article?
Harrison, Kristen and Joanne Cantor. "The Relationship between Media Consumption and Eating Disorders." Journal of Communication. 47 (Spring 1997) 40-67. Search the library catalog for Harrison, Kristen.

Search Google for Eating Disorders.

Search the library catalog for Journal of Communication.

7. You must always cite your sources when you paraphrase someone else's words.

You must always cite your sources when you paraphrase someone else's words. Always true

It depends on the length of the source and how much you summarize from it

Only if you use a statistic or date

Only if the original author is still alive

8. Which one of the following do you think best describes a scholarly "peer-reviewed" article?

Which one of the following do you think best describes a scholarly "peer-reviewed" article? An article that can only be published in printed form and not on the internet.

Article reviewed and published by experts in the subject area

An article published within the last 10 years.

An article reviewed for accuracy after publication.

9. Which IM provider do you use?

Which IM provider do you use? AIM

Yahoo

MSN

Google

Do not IM

Other (please specify)