[Sometimes management will ask] ‘Can you do this piece of research to try to find out how students are doing x, y, and z and why they’re doing x, y, and z?’ And we’ll go off and do it and then we’ll go back with what we’ve found and it will be very much cherry-picked what they want to implement and what they don’t want to implement.
Luckily, this doesn't happen to me
There aren’t enough laws that regulate the usage of location services in regards to privacy, and I think that they should be enforced.
It's a bit awkward to have that second clause ("and I think that they should be enforced") tacked on to the sentence. It would read better if you were to rewrite this as two sentences and to emphasize in that second sentence that you are concerned that the existing laws aren't even being enforced.
"There aren't enough laws that regulate the usage of location services in regards to privacy. To make matters worse, those few laws we have aren't even being enforced."
For example
A comma should follow "For example"
blogs
Should be "blog posts" not "blogs." A blog is the entire site; a blog post is just one particular post on that blog.
Google vs. the Library (Part III): Assessing the Quality of Sources Found by Undergraduates. (2015). Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 15(1), 133-161.
You forgot to include the author name for this citation.
Brooklyn College, Publications and Research.
This article and the next one came from CUNY Academic Works, an online repository of scholarly publications by CUNY faculty and students. You need to follow APA style by providing details on the online location where you found the full text of these sources.
424-425.
After the page numbers, you need to indicate the name of the database and its URL where you found the article or the DOI for the article. For more about how to do this, please see:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/
You'll need to fix this for each of your articles.
Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population. The Journal of Academic Librarianship
In APA style, the only words in the article title that should be capitalized are the first word in the main title and the first word in the subtitle:
Information literacy instruction that works: A guide to teaching by discipline and student population.
Also, the name of the journal should always be set in italics.
Please fix these two things in all your citations.
For more details on APA style, see:
EBSCOhost.
If you found the text in EBSCOhost, then you either need to add the URL for the article or you need to add the DOI. See this guide on the MLA website: https://style.mla.org/works-cited-a-quick-guide-journal/
.
Delete this period. It should be:
Grimes, Deborah et al.
EBSCOhost. http://homepage.univie.ac.at/juan.gorraiz/Vortrag/ebooksmyth.pdf
If you found the full text at this web address that's not part of EBSCOhost, you don't need to include "EBSCOhost" in the citation.
“Print sources in an electronic age: A vital part of the research process for undergraduate students.”
Each word in the title (except for pronouns and other little words) should be capitalized:
"Print Sources in an Electronic Age: A Vital Part of the Research Process for Undergraduate Students,"
Mar2014
Put a space between Mar and 2014
Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship
Italics
portal: Libraries and the Academy
Journal names should always be in italics.
Booker, Lorne D., et al. “Factors Affecting the Adoption of Online Library Resources by Business Students.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, vol. 63, no. 12, Dec. 2012, pp. 2503-2520.
You need to indicate where you found the full text online. This is the case for all your citations. If you found the full text of an article in a library database, follow this style:
https://style.mla.org/works-cited-a-quick-guide-journal/
If you found the full text on the open web, then you need to include the URL for the page where the article text was found.
http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=59830120&site=ehost-live
OK to remove Baruch part of the URL
http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lls&AN=502972883&site=ehost-live
OK to remove Baruch part of the URL
http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=48491812&site=ehost-live
OK to remove the Baruch part of the URL
http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=89346655&site=ehost-live
OK to remove the Baruch part of the URL
http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://
OK to remove this Baruch-specific part of the URL
&Amp;
This looks like junk text that the database generated in the function that generates a citation you can copy and paste. You'll want to keep your eyes open for this and clean it up so that it just reads:
Reference & User Services Quarterly
http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=118405821&site=ehost-live
It's OK to cut off the Baruch specific part of the URL so that it is just this:
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=118405821&site=ehost-live
For style details from MLA about URLs for articles in databases, see this page from the MLA: https://style.mla.org/works-cited-a-quick-guide-journal/
Summer2008
Insert space between Summer and 2008
Connaway, Lynn S, et al. “Engaging Net Gen Students in Virtual Reference: Reinventing Services to Meet Their Information Behaviors and Communication Preferences.” American Library Association Journals, May 12-15, 2009, pp. 12-27., http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/national/seattle/papers/10.pdf
This is actually a paper presented at a conference, not a peer-reviewed journal article. It's OK to use for now, but do ask me in class to explain how I recognized that this was a conference paper.
This article written by Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer A. King, and Adelaide Soto in Practical Academic Librarianship details a study the authors undertook analyzing and e-book pilot program on CUNY’s Lehman College Campus. The article begins by detailing the explosive growth the ebooks and ereaders saw towards the end of the decade and posing the question of whether or not ebooks and ereaders can be useful in the academic space. The Leonard Lief Library of Lehman College decided to trial the technology by offering e-readers and ebooks to students that would otherwise not be able to use them. The project was split into two phases, the first would be without any subscriptions be provided by the library with the second including a library subscription to Overdrive. The ereaders being provided would not be preloaded with any content as the researchers wanted the students to personalize the content they needed as well as provide the students with an opportunity to become more familiar with the technology. The Sony Reader was chosen at the time of the study because of its increased support for more ebook formats over the Amazon Kindle which better supported the goal of letting students find their own content to load onto the devices. For the creation of their own e-library the researchers decided to use the service Overdrive, purchasing 82 single user licenses focusing on popular and in demand books. The pilot found problems with the e-readers chosen for the program and their circulation rate was extremely low. Other issues such as setting up an Adobe account for because of DRM reasons was found to be tedious and a hindrance to ebook use. The Overdrive service wound up being popular with the selection size almost tripling over the course of the pilot. The pilot concluded with mixed reactions to the e-readers and an increasing popularity for electronic textbooks. It is important to note the age of the study and the technology involved when assessing it. The study was conducting in 2009 with second generation e-readers and the third generation just coming out. During this time period a number of technological advances would wind up making e-readers more user friendly and changing the landscape overall with the introduction of items like the iPad. In addition during this time there would be a strong trend towards moving more content online. This study was a pilot by an early mover in the field and as such the technology is limited.
Try to break up long paragraphs like this.
Havelka, S. s., King, J. A., & Soto, A. (2012). Brave New Library World: Lending e-readers and e-books in an Urban Academic Library. Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal Of The SLA, 2(2), 1-17.
Follow APA style
Lamagna, M., Hartman-Caverly, S., & Danowitz, E. S. (2015). Integrating e-Books into Academic Libraries: A Literature Review. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 20(1/2), 19-32.
APA style
The technology aspect is very much ignored as there is no mention of any specific ICT that is being study, only a vague concept of electronic readings which is never defined.
Interesting. Good analysis.
Social Informatics Approach
It's OK to make this lower case.
Mizrachi, D. m. (2015). Undergraduates’ Academic Reading Format Preferences and Behaviors. Journal Of Academic Librarianship, 41(3), 301-311.
Please note particulars of APA style regarding article titles and journal names.
however demographic information is lacking, we only know that the students were undergraduate students enrolled in a Quantum Mechanics course at the University of St Andrews.
This would read better as its own sentence (also note the semi-colon I added after "lacking").
However, demographic information is lacking; we only know that the students were undergraduate students enrolled in a Quantum Mechanics course at the University of St Andrews.
The
They
Muir, L. l., & Hawes, G. g. (2013). The Case for e-Book Literacy: Undergraduate Students’ Experience with e-Books for Course Work. Journal Of Academic Librarianship, 39(3), 260-274.
If you are using APA style citation, please note that the article title should not use initial capital letters for each word. Also, the title of the journal should be in italics.
Details here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/07/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/
Social Informatics Aspects:
As compared to the other blog post you wrote, you did a better job here with the analysis of the article's use of the social informatics perspective.
Social Informatics aspects:
In your future blog posts, please make this section less of a summary of the findings of the article and more of an analysis/commentary by you about how thoroughly the authors considered each of the three social informatics aspects.
wants to examine
Better to just say:
This article examines...
Amp;
Remove "Amp;"
web based reference services
"web-based reference services"
If you've got a two-word phrase like "web based" that is modified a third word or phrase, it needs to be hyphenated. Fore details, see rule 1 about hyphens between words on this page: https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphens.asp
peer reviewed article
"peer-reviewed article"
Yang, and Dalal
You're missing the first names of the authors in this citation.
Amp;
More of that pesky machine-generated crud from the citation formatting tool in EBSCOhost databases.
While the authors did mention chat and email services a number of times throughout the article they focused more on the analysis of the overall lack of communication between students and librarians, rather than focusing on the efficiency of the mediums used to communicate, those being chat and email services. They very adequately addressed how the use of our ICT may have been impacted by social/organizational aspects. They dedicated a part of their interviews and analysis to the assumptions regarding library services and the motivations behind seeking out librarians for help. Ultimately, coming to the conclusion that students are apprehensive to seek out help in their research because they don’t know how librarians/library services can help in ways that are different or more informative than a simple google search or independent research. They didn’t truly explore how differences in users may have contributed to the use of our ICT because they only interviewed 10 people from one college. Therefore, their findings may be representative of college students’ usage of our ICT as a whole, but are limited considering the size of interview pool.
Nice job with this section on the social informatics aspects that the authors addressed.
&Amp;
Although the automated feature in EBSCOhost databases can generate a formatted citation for you, it often has computer generated crud in it, like this. You'll want to clean these up when you see them in your citations.
Social Informatics Approach:
As in your other posts, this section would be more clear and easier to read if you explicitly mention which social informatics aspect you are addressing.
Methodology:
You did a great job of summarizing the methodology. Nice job!
Social Informatics Approach:
This section is better done that the ones in the first two blog posts you wrote. I wasn't clear in the last sentence of this section if that was where you were talking about the social, institutional, and organizational aspects of the ICT use being studied. If so, you should signal that to me in way you word the sentence.
Social Informatics Approach:
As was the case in the first blog post, this section would benefit from your actually mentioning each specific aspect of the social informatics approach as you begin to discuss how well it was addressed in the article.
hannah.rempel@oregonstate.edu
Remove the email address from the citation.
Social Informatics Approach:
In this section on social informatics in each of your blog posts, make sure that each post post has an analysis of each of the three aspects. To make it clear to me which of three aspects you're talking about, you should mention that aspect in the sentence, something like this:
"Regarding details about the ICT, the authors do explain that...."
"The article doesn't really give us enough information about who the people are using the ICT. The authors should have told me...."
"The authors offer some insights into the social, organizational, and institutional aspects but not not much. It would have been ideal if they had ..."
1,2, HGeorgas@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
The EBSCOhost database you were using does this really crummy thing when you use the citation feature: it embeds the author's email address into the citation even though it shouldn't be there at all. You'll want to clean up these citations where the email address has been inserted.
And Bloomberg, an information and news aggregator and provider.
This is an incomplete sentence. You could tack this clause on to the end of the previous sentence.
50 minute introduction
If you have a two-word phrase modifying a third word, then that two-word phrase should have a hyphen in it:
50-minute introduction
students
You need to make "students" possessive:
students'
Whitesell, M., & Helms, M. (2013). Assessing Business Students’ Research Skills for the Capstone Project in the Strategic Management Course. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 18(1), 14-32.
This is an APA style citation. Please decide whether you're going to use APA or MLA and then consistently use that style in all your blog posts and assignments.
Social Informatics Aspect:
In that last section on social informatics, it would be much stronger and clearer if you can indicate to me which of three aspects you're talking about. Uou should mention that aspect in the sentence, something like this:
"Regarding details about the ICT, the authors do explain that...."
"The article doesn't really give us enough information about who the people are using the ICT. The authors should have told me...."
"The authors offer some insights into the social, organizational, and institutional aspects but not not much. It would have been ideal if they had ..."
‘Federated search tool’
Use double quotes not single ones:
"federated search tool"
was made to
"helps answer the question about" instead of "was made to answer the question of"
“Student searching behavior and the web: the use of academic resources and Google”
If you are using MLA style, then each main word in the article title needs to be set in capitals:
"Student Searching Behavior and the Web: The Use of Academic Resources and Google."
Please see this guide to MLA style for more information: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/07/
Griffiths, Jillian R., and Peter Brophy. “Student searching behavior and the web: use of academic resources and Google.” Library Trends, Spring 2005, p. 539+. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com.remote.baruch.cuny.edu/apps/doc/A133606290/AONE?u=cuny_baruch&sid=AONE&xid=48e4d37d. Accessed 20 Mar. 2018.
This looks like MLA style you used for the citation. In the previous post, you used APA. Please pick on style and use it consistently on all your posts.
google scholar
Should be capitalized: Google Scholar.
The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Is this APA style that you are using? If so, the title of the article should be like this:
Academic users' information searching on research topics: Characteristics of research tasks and search strategies.
Also, the name of the journal should be set in italics.
It had wonderful ICT used, like the survey, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as using coding as questionnaire, maybe my group and I can use this article as an idea, but I do believe they’re should’ve been a further study.
You seem to be missing the point about the ICT. The ICT that we care about in this article are ebooks. We the readers want to know what the authors have to tell us about the use of that ICT (ebooks) among students at a specific university. How much do the authors explain the ICT whose use is being studied? Do they assume we all know what ebooks look like and how they work or do they give the readers some useful details? How well do the authors consider the differences among the people using the ICT (the ebooks at that university)? How well do the authors take into account the social, institutional, and organizational factors that shape the use of that ICT (ebooks) at that university? These are the specific things your blog post needs to focus on.
a sampling method as one of their ICT
A sampling method isn't an ICT. Please see me if you're confused about what an ICT is.
This literature review
I wouldn't call this paper a literature review. It has a literature review in it but it's a conference paper in which the authors are reporting back on the results of a survey they administered.
https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/2280/6/strathprints002280.pdf
This isn't a peer-reviewed journal article.
Abdullah, N. and Gibb, F. (2006), “A survey of e-book awareness and usage amongst students in an academic library”, in Proceedings of International Conference of Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies , Merida, Spain, pp. 115-119. [Google Scholar]
This isn't MLA style.
et al
You should only use "et al" if there are three or more authors. In this case, there are just two authors.
Jungyeon, E. P., and Cho, S. K.. (2015). Reading experiences influencing the acceptance of e-book devices. The Electronic Library 33(1), 120–135. doi:10.1108/EL- 05-2012-0045.
This looks like a citation done using APA style. Your previous post used MLA style. Please pick one style and stick with it.
“Published studies of DDA use indicate that libraries can expect a very small percent of available records to receive any use when they are first added to the collection. Because it can take print books up to 12 years to see their first circulation, the period of discovery for e-books may be similar” (Fry, page 82).
If you are going to quote something and that quote is more than a single sentence, then you want to set off that quote as an indented quote. See this web page about how to format a "long quotation" properly:
One piece of writing
"One thing"
Though I must say, the author didn’t do a good job on stating the social, institutional, and organizational aspects surrounding the use of the ICT.
Too bad. It would have been helpful if Fry had written about this aspect.
ICTs
The ICTs being studied by the author were print and ebooks.
The methodology that was being used in the article was when author began reviewing other published studies and took under consideration the different methods of monograph used in academic libraries, whether print books have lost their value for library users, and how libraries can assess if and/or when e-books are used more than print.
Her review of other published studies was just her literature review and not really her methodology. The methodology she used was to examine data from actual usage of materials in the library where she works.
College & Research Libraries
The name of the journal should always be in italics.
Blog Post #1
This blog post is a bit of a jumble. It might make it easier to write these if you add in headings to your post and then put the relevant content under that heading, like this:
Citation
Research Question
Research Methodology
Social Informatics Aspects
In that last section on social informatics, make sure that each post post has an analysis of each of the three aspects. To make it clear to me which of three aspects you're talking about, you should mention that aspect in the sentence, something like this:
"Regarding details about the ICT, the authors do explain that...."
"The article doesn't really give us enough information about who the people are using the ICT. The authors should have told me...."
"The authors offer some insights into the social, organizational, and institutional aspects but not not much. It would have been ideal if they had ..."
social setting
What you follow "social setting" with isn't actually the social aspects; those are the people using the ICT and the demographic details about them.
Electronic versus traditional print textbooks: A comparison study on the influence of university students’ learning
If you mention the title of the article in a sentence, you need to put that article title in quotation marks and to use capital letters:
The article I chose is called "Electronic versus Traditional Print Textbooks: A Comparison Study on the Influence of University Students’ Learning," written by...
Electronic versus traditional print textbooks: A comparison study on the influence of university students’ learning, Amanda J. Rockinson-Szapkiw – Jennifer Courduff – Kimberly Carter – David Bennett – Computers & Education – 2013
This isn't a MLA citation. Please see me if you're not sure how to do this part of the assignment.
Rashidul Islam-Blog post 4
The social informatics section at the end of your post was the best one of the four posts you've done so far.
Battleson
Author's first name is missing here.
1, j.bates@ulster.ac.uk
Make sure you clean up the citation when you copy and paste it from an EBSCOhost database. The email address is something that shouldn't be in your citation (EBSCOhost really needs to fix this problem).
persons
"person's" not "persons" (you'd want to use apostrophe S here because you want to use the possessive).
ICT’s
"ICTs" not "ICT's" (an apostrophe with an S is used for a possessive, not a plural)
As a consequence, the search results can be organized in a manner that favors the beliefs of Google as a corporation
Good point.
Ironically, I had to use google to figure out what federated searching was
That's funny!
When reading this article, I thought of federated searching as using One Search on the Baruch library website
Your instincts are very good. Prior to OneSearch, we had a federated search system on the home page that we branded locally as "Bearcat."
"Google"
The researchers tells us the ICT is the ILT
But aren't the researchers studying how well students use information (found online, found in print, etc) and thus that is the real ICT, not the "ILT"? The ILT is just a test the researchers used to understand what kind of information literacy skills they students actually had, right? Or did I get that wrong?
does
"do"
in a higher view
"in a higher view"?
one of which whether
", one of which was whether"
looks
"looked" not "looks"
EBSCOhost,
End of the citation seems to be cut off.
researchers does not
"researchers do not"
its spread
"it spread" not "its spread"
base
"based" not "base"
does
"do" not "does"
library resources.
"library resources" is pretty vague. Did the authors ever specify what that term included and didn't include?
Methodology
To save you some time, you don't need to go into such great detail about how the survey itself was conducted. Just let me know in your post that the methodology used was a survey.
on
"about" not "on"
were
"was" not "were"
has
"have" not "has"
university
"universities" not "university"
EBSCOhost,
Seems like the end of the citation that should have followed this part got cut off.
Social informatics aspects
This is a pretty good section.
does
"do" not "does"
the hierarchy of the ICT
Not sure what you mean by this. Why "hierarchy?"
Social Informatics: This study is about the “ICT literacy” and “Information literacy” of the undergraduate students being researched. The use of the ICT is the databases that the students used to do their research. The people who are using the ICT is the researchers and the students. The number of students that were studied is 77, it is composed mostly of freshmen. It also includes other statistical calculations of the distribution of participants. The main organization that was talked about in this study is the University. MU has a course named ISLT (Information Use and Student Success), which helped fuel this study that gives insight on how students do research.
Of your four posts, this one had the best social informatics section. Use this as a model for what you need to do in the next two blog posts.
Social Informatics: The researchers didn’t specifically used the term ICT for their research but their paper gave a clear understanding on the different types of ICT used to explain their point. One of the main ICT that this article used is a database. The databases that were mainly used in this articles is ones that are popular with medical research. The medical databases has papers and journals specifically on medical subjects. The people that used the ICT was the researchers themselves and the undergraduates/provides that uploaded the papers to the databases. It may also include all the people who are doing medical research. The social and organization usage is the researchers and their college that does the studies, it also includes us the readers.
This section doesn't address each of the three social informatics aspects in any clear manner. It's OK to write your sentences in this section in a manner more like this where you specify each social informatics aspect by name as you tell me about it:
Regarding the ICT itself, the authors didn't really explain in detail what it was, its component parts, what kind of information was carried or in the ICT....
The authors also didn't do a good job of telling me enough about who the users of the ICT were.
For the social, institutional, organizational aspects of the ICT use, the authors never really spelled out in detail the setting where this ICT was being used or how that setting might have shaped the use of the ICT.
by collect information on these undergraduates
What kind of information did they collect? I'm confused by this whole methodology section.
One of the main ICT that was used in this article is the laptop. They allowed half of the sample size to use the laptops to do research on the certain topic. The laptops had a connection to a database, which helped the undergraduate student look for the certain books. All the participants were undergrad students that has a area of interest in science. There was 9 males and 11 females, and all of them had some knowledge of how to use books/e-books to do research.
This section should be more about how thoroughly the article covered each of the three social informatics aspects.
is
"are" not "is" (participants is a plural noun, so the verb must agree with it).
‘prompted think-aloud methodology and qualitative analysis technique’
Use double quotes (" ") instead of single quotes (' ').
are inventing in e-book worth the time and money
"is investing in e-books worth the time and money"
E-books
You should consistently spell "e-books" the same way in your post. In this case, you meant to type "e-books" not "E-books.
increase
"increased" not "increase"
In this study, there not not a use of an ICT to conduct the survey, since it was on paper, however the questions that they surveyed for was about ICTs. They compared the area of study to the aspect of ICTs. This showed how the different interest use the different type reference material to look for their work. The people that was using it was classified into their year(freshmen,sophomore, etc), and their different demographics that was asked on the survey.
This section where you analyze the extent to which the article explains each of the three social informatics aspects needs more work. You need to make sure that your sentences explicitly say which aspect you're talking about and how thoroughly (if at all) the article addressed that aspect.
how the different interes
"different interest"? Not sure what you mean here.
defer
"differ" not "defer"
Social Informatics Aspects:
Nice job in this section.
Social Informatics Aspects:
Another great job in this section of the blog post!
The authors explain the organizational, technical, social, and user aspects of the ICT thoroughly
I don't doubt that they did but it would help if you'd added a few choice tidbits that they did mention.
Social Informatics Aspects
Great job in this section!
goes
Delete "goes"
Group #2: Blog Post 4
This post is pretty good. Keep 'em coming like this.
College & Research Libraries
The journal name should be in italics.
Bates did a subpar job in describing the ICT. She does provide a description of the ICT itself by mentioning the databases and web search engines used for the study and described how each search engine performed. Yet, the author did not mention the people using the ICT. She only mentioned, “two members” when describing the methodology. It would be nice to know the gender, age, academic year, country of birth, etc. For the institutional/social organization, the only division was between the two members performing the study itself. There were no power dynamics expressed, or the norms/values. In conclusion, web search engines were not comparable to bibliographic databases and therefore, web search engines could not replace bibliographic databases.
Good analysis.
pp. 8–17.
Where is the rest of this citation that lets me know where you found the full text?
The Journal of Academic Librarianship
The name of the journal should be in italics.
Bates
You forgot to include the author's first name: Marcia.
Helen did not do a great job of describing the ICT used. She stated the number of students, but she lacked to specify the gender, age, year of education, type of major, etc.
Good!
To create a bias research for all students
What do you mean by "create a bias research?"
Helen’s
Use the author's last name, not first.
table of the different majors and year of education along with a score next to each to signify the results (from Brooklyn College).
I don't see how this table relates to "the power dynamics and social structure." This could have used a bit more explanation.
For the norms, she wrote how students tend to use Google instantly because of the quickness and easy to use interface.
Good!
detail
"detailed" not "detail"
the ICT used (the internet)
As far as your task of specifying the ICT used and letting me know if the author was specific and detailed enough in explaining the ICT being studied, I don't think your identification of the ICT as being "the internet" is specific enough.
Helen
You should use the author's last name, Georgas, instead of the first (the more formal use of the last name is expected in this kind of writing).
1,2, HGeorgas@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
When you copy and paste the citations from an EBSCOhost database, you will need to clean up the author info by removing the email address that got inadvertently carried over.
Social Informatics Approach
You need to add a sentence discussing the 3rd aspect of the social informatics approach: the social, institutional, and organizational context of where the ICT is being used.
ione
"one"
Social Informatics Approach: The journal article does a decent job describing the ICTs in place for the research. Although all 3 schools administered the ILI in different ways, they all shared a common web based approach, whether it be through guides or online tutorials. But the article failed to mention the specific resources that went into developing the ICT or the overall structure behind the guides/tutorial. On the other hand, the results recorded did a great job of separating the interviewed students by class level. It would’ve been better if the study recorded the ethnic backgrounds of the individuals to see if that held a factor in determining the usefulness of ILI. Besides that, other factors such as learning environment, budgeting, and attitudes of ILI were all taken into account
This discussion of the social informatics aspects is better in this post than in your first two, but it should more explicitly mention each of the three aspects and how each one was covered (if at all) in the article.
Suleman Aleem – Group 3 – Source 1 & 2
The biggest issue with these two articles is that you didn't specify how each one treats each of the three aspects of the social informatics perspective.
Teaching Undergraduate Business Students to Access Public Company Information: Assessing Students’ Use of Library Resources
The title of the article should have quote marks around it.
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This should be a comma, not a period. If you make "A theory that focuses on how users come to accept and use technology" a stand-alone sentence, it is an incomplete sentence. Joining it to the previous sentence with a comma then makes it a dependent clause and grammatically correct.
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Did you mean for this to say "is"?
“how to locate, access, and interpret information from a wide variety of information sources.”
Where did this quote come from? You need to indicate the author and, if there is one, the page number where this quote appeared.
summaries
"summarizes" not "summaries"
journal
I think you mean "journal article"
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The name of a journal should always be set in italics.
Studies that measureHuman Computer Interaction (HCI) and user experience are more apt to focus on the negative experience with the interface than the positive.6
The article cited to make this claim is from 2003. I wonder if it's valid 14 years later.
(I’m particularly happy about the participation of the librarians.
Right on!
The code name also suggests that Samsung finally seems to understand the many criticisms that have long been leveled at its phones: the plastic hardware looked cheap, the most promoted features were mostly useless and the software was too complicated.
I like my Samsung S3, but is it ever loaded up with crapps form Samsung that I have no interest in ever using.
To suggest that faculty are innocently waiting to be pounced on by predators is to deny their agency and their ability to make choices about their own work. There may be days where that metaphor seems apt, but I think overall this is a damaging mentality to librarians interested in promoting new models of scholarly communication.
A nice point about how librarians need to be thoughtful in the way they present the pitfalls of the emerging open access model of scholarly communication.