Transcript Research Like a Librarian: Advanced Internet Research and Critical Evaluation, with a Little FOIL and RSS Thrown in if We've Got Time Radical.

Research Like a Librarian: Advanced Internet
Research and Critical Evaluation, with a Little
FOIL and RSS Thrown in if We've Got Time
Radical Reference at the
Grassroots Media Conference 2006
Jenna Freedman and Julie Tozer
Advanced Internet Research
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Librarians Internet Index
Dogpile
Advanced Google, including Google Scholar
and Googling to the Max
NYPL and Brooklyn Public Library online
resources
Government Documents, aka getting into
research libraries
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state, federal, and international government
documents guide from Columbia University
Columbia Journalism Library Site and Blog
critical evaluation of web resources
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Authority/author/credibility/accuracy
Purpose/audience
Scope (depth/breadth)
Currency (update frequency)
External links
Uniqueness
Availability (free or registration required?)
Context
FOIA and FOIL
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How to file a FOIL request
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Elements of letter
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full addresses for both parties, date
FOIL request statement
fee ceiling
details of content sought and range of dates to be
covered
request that they obey the law regarding answering your
request and that if they won't give you the info that they
give a reason why not
Certified mail & fax
Copy the Committee on Open Government
Freedom of Information Act
RSS
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Aggregators: web vs. software
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Search blog content
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Bloglines (web)
Liferea (free opensource software)
Feedster
Non blog content
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Open Directory Project
Chronicle of Higher Education
New York Times
Find Articles
Yahoo Feeds, Yahoo News RSS
Journals
etc.
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Ask Radical Reference [email protected]
or RRNYC [email protected].
This presentation online
http://www.radicalreference.info/grassroots/research2006
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logo.