Today we discussed advanced internet searching and tried out some of the techniques and strategies from class discussion and from Badke, chapter 6. Don’t forget to set up your google scholar preferences on computers you use off-campus so that you can connect to City Tech library resources through the Find It! button.
On Monday we’ll discuss library catalogs and how to search (and find!) books and other media in them. Please read Badke chapter 5 pp. 71-76 and review the Library of Congress Classification Outline. Your second research journal blog post is also due on Monday; prompt is below:
In class today you tried out advanced search strategies and scholarly internet resources from the Badke reading to search for sources on your research topic.Describe 1 advanced strategy or scholarly resource you used.Did you find different information sources than you found doing a regular internet search (just using Google, Yahoo, etc.), and if so, how are they different?Did you encounter any difficulties that you haven’t encountered in a regular internet search?
Slides for today are available here.
~Prof. L
