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Library 10 is a co-requisite to Cabrillo College's English 1A course. This Web-based version of Library 10 is written to be used by students in the online English 1A classes taught at Cabrillo College.

The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge a Cabrillo College Curriculum Grant, awarded Fall 2002, for support of this project.

Chapter 1 -- Chapter1hp.html (Chapter 1 homepage) and Chapter1Page2 -- Some of the Web pages posted by John Bryner at Southern Utah University provided inspiration and initial ideas, e.g., http://www.media.suu.edu/lm3160/restrict/lessons/
chapter1/index.htm; ideas used with permission.

Chapter1Page5.html -- That there are just over 3 billion Web resources is taken from the total number that the search engine Google claims it is indexing [as of 1/03]. That the Web is growing at a rate of 7 to 8 million Web pages a day is taken from "Taxonomies for Business Benefit," a PowerPoint presentation authored in September 2002 by TFPL, a company offering services to corporate information markets, at http://www.tfp1.com/about_TFPL/press_releases/speaking_engagements/
business_in_the_city.pdf    Number of books published in the U.S. in 1997 is taken from figures offered by the International Publishers Association  [see http://www.ipa-uie.org/statistics/annual_book_prod.html] The "over 100,000" figure is taken from the 2001 edition of Statistical Abstract of the United States. The number of electronic books available via NetLibrary is taken from OCLC's Introduction ot NetLibrary (2001), available at http://oclcpica.org/content/1100/sday.pdf. The number of films made in the U.S. in 2001 is taken from "United States: [Film] Production and Distribution" from Cannesmarket.com at http://www.cannesmarket.com/information/stats/usa.html?langue=6002; sources: Variety, MPAA. That there are more that 13,000 periodical titles, and over 10,000 newspapers, published on a regular basis in the U.S. is taken from Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2001 (table 1128).

Chapter 2 Page 9 -- The sidebar quotation was taken from The Basics of Social Research by Earl R. Babbie, published in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Chapter 5 -- Some of the images in Chapter 5 were captured (with permission) from OASIS (Online Advancement of Student Information Skills <http://oasis.sfsu.edu/>)

Online Library 10 course materials © Jacqueline Shuirman and Topsy N. Smalley, Cabrillo College Library, 2003.

As a backbone of content, the authors used the Information Research workbook, written continuously (since 1994) by librarians at Cabrillo College Library. The latest edition of the Information Research workbook was edited by Laura Thompson-Dickie and Johanna Bowen.