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Eric Pelkey Shares 10 Top Reads

Thanks to NMCC instructor Eric Pelkey for sharing his Top 10 Reads of All Time:


The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Trial by Franz Kafka
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Modern Library 100 Best Novels

If asked, could you create a list of the 10 best novels you have ever read?

Here's the Modern Library best 100 list to get you started.   Have a favorite you want to share?  Post it here, or stop by the library and add yourself to our reading recommendation shelf.

Policies and Privacy

Do you ever take the time to read the policies we are all sent?  Google just sent out an updated privacy policy and terms of service.   Effective date is March 1, 2012.

You can read it here.  Do you have any thoughts to share?

What is a digital object identifier (DOI)?

What is it?  Do you need to know?  How do you find one?   How do you use it in your citations?

This is what a digital object identifier looks like:   DOI 10.1007/s00464-009-0772-0

Need to know more about this?

APA blog has some great entries on this.

Use CrossRef to lookup a DOI.

DOI and URL flowchart.

DOI primer.

Some Google Tips to help your search

Take a look and see if any of these tips will help you get better search results.

Something fun to watch

Let's face it, you can't study all day long.  Take a few minutes to watch this video and learn a little about searching.

For English 227

These links are for the students in Jen Graham's English 227 Advanced Comp class.

Today I'll be visiting the class and talking about information literacy.  We'll review student learning outcomes for information literacy instruction at NMCC.

We'll discuss Eli Pariser's book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You and also view his video on TED. 

We'll take two quick surveys:

Info Lit Initial Assessment Spring 2012

Information Literacy Pre-Test Spring 2012

If there is time, we'll also look at Dan Russell's blog.  He's a research scientist at Google and has lots of helpful tips to make you a more effective searcher.

How to start a blog

Begin 2012 by creating your own blog.   Do you have one blog you read every day?   Share the link.

Best blogs of 2011.

Spring Common Read

We'll be reading The Help by Kathyrn Stockett as our first common read this semester.   Then we'll read All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.   Details to follow.

Great video The Joy of Books

The Joy of Books.