On the Ethics of Realness and Credibility

A chapter in the book Communication Ethics, Media & Popular Culture (originally published in 2005) might be useful for bringing our concern about ethos and credibility into a cultural context. Dan Molden's "Eminem and the Rhetoric of 'Real': The Implications of 'Keeping it Real' on Ethics and Credibility" makes an effort to situate our current concern for realness and the interest in figures who confront the fakeness of society (like Eminem and Jesse Ventura). Is this connected to our students' sometimes backwards understanding of credibility, authority and bias? The section "Real Ethics?" seems especially to start asking some of the questions that are related to our larger project.

in our library P94. C5725 2007

Research Process Case Study

Allie is going to write about her experience building the GEL unit around Kuhlthau's research process. So I'm supposed to do the lit review and theoretical foundation stuff. The lit review should be what's been done like this and the theoretical foundation should be metacognitive scaffolding. What else is metacognitive scaffolding called? Should we also get into reflective judgement?

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Get Marketing Today's Academic Library: A Bold New Approach to Communicating with Students by Brian Mathews for the library collection

BSI Grant Research

I should:

• Interview participating professors at my school about how they used the results
• Plan a pre/post deployment in fall 2009
• Contact the TRAILS test makers about how they've seen the test used and if they have overall percentile figures
• Contact Mercer Community College about how they used the test and results
• Check to see how the ILT from James Madison U has been used in case there's an analogy with my results
  

My paper should be focused for a developmental education audience and include plans for how I will implement the findings from my research in LIB 101 and my support efforts for the Freshman Academy.

LIB 2 idea for copyright/ethical use

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Shepard Fairey's Obama poster

CARL Advocacy

I need to get in touch with Amy and Tracey to see if CARL has any support to offer for getting the libraries at community colleges counted for apportionment to the college. If this is a problem at the level of the system office, then it could be changed if people get interested in it.

focus

my husband should write a paper on what is meant by "find a focus" in the research process. I saw in "Research on the information seeking behavior of young adults" by Theresa Szeliga a gap in the library literature on what finding a focus actually means when students are expected to use their preliminary research to decide on a focus.