Based on quantitative data used in Robert D. Putnam's book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, the exercises on this Web site introduce you to an investigation of Putnam's claim about social change in America--that community is declining. Next, the exercises guide you in an investigation into why this is happening, whether it matters (so what), and what is to be done about it in the future. Overall, the exercises illustrate social science investigation and build your skills in data analysis.

Interview with Dianna Oblinger, VP of Educause on information literacy among college students.

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Great tutorial from Uni of Wisconsin for teaching undergraduates how to use the library.

Great tutorial from Uni of Wisconsin for teaching undergraduates how to use the library.

A listing of Jenny Levine's presentations with links.

Section programming for ALA 2006.

Resource guide from ALA confernce.

Listing of important Field Tags for the PubMed database.

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"In this "technology hour" workshop we will cover the basics of what, exactly, RSS is (Really Simple Syndication), how to receive RSS news feeds and related podcasts, which news aggregator to use, how blogs fit in to the RSS picture, and how to create your own RSS feed."

Bibliography of universities that offer some type of RSS instruction, with links to tutorials if available.

penn library workshops

penn library workshops