Module 4 Task Organising Search Information

Golden Re-treival

Three of the best sources I found for my Netiquette concept were:

1. Shea, V (1994) Netiquette. Albion.com, United States. Retrieved July 28, 2008 from Intute database. http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=sosig988195417-18634

2. Lex Networkia, Understanding the Internet Community. Valauskas, E.J., (1996, July 8) Lex Networkia, Understanding the Internet Community. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, New York. Retrieved 1 August, 2008, from http://www.firstmonday.dk http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4/valauskas/

3. Nord, Y. (2008). Minding Your Ps And Qs.Book Review of Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
Retrieved July 24, 2008 from http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/minding-your-ps-and

I recorded this information in several ways:

• I bookmarked these sources using deli.cio.us and used very specific tags to jog my memory for future reference.(I have found the more tags I use, the easier it is to find again).


• I also printed out the article from First Monday (twofold reasons; 1. So I could read it on the train and 2. so I had a copy I could mark up and keep)
  I also referenced the sources for my Concepts assignment, taking care to record the specific URLs.


• I did not take screenshots at the time of discovery (as I don’t think this is an effective way to capture details about these particular resources).

For my uni courses, I have developed a folder system and for NET 11, keep an electronic folder (which I back up regularly) for each of the Module task sets and assignments (drafts and finals), so have saved this information in these.

I also keep a real folder for printouts and collected reference sources; magazine or newspaper articles, or printouts of peer-reviewed journals. In this way, I can use multiple ways of finding the information, as I may need to access information in different contexts (eg read on the train, quote for an assignment, re-confirm a fact).

I used tools and software such as del.icio.us, Copernic, Google and directories such as Intute, Librarians Internet Index to search for information.