LIB 1201 Fall 2011

I am still searching in different places but like I said previously theonly way to get accurate and fulfilling results in this proccess is to set aside an entire day or at least 8hours plus maybe not all togeteher but just for resarch. i am familiar with the catalog system from my old school at suny old wstbury, We often had to open up books during class to pertain to daily lessons. Using the catalog for research is a ittle different, there is a specific strategy to searhing in systems like this and you can only leran from practice. Im sure the longer we partcipate in this research process the better we will becom as researchers and the easier the research will become.

-Tarik

I actually read the whole of chapter 5 on Sunday night, because i have the book on my phone and read it on the computer. so when you specified pages, i didn’t know where a page started and where another ended. So i read the whole thing. Whoops? I’m still not having any luck with google scholar, it just doesn’t give me anything i can chew on. I have more luck with using the regular google search and searching for essays and journals on my research topic. which gives me scholar-esque results. It would also help if i had a firm grasp/idea of what my topic was, which is something i’m still working on. Stay tuned.

I already really like WorldCat. I can choose which format I want to look for, whether it will be articles or a book. I searched about social media’s influence on world disasters and  I received two positive results for my topic. I am especially surprised about this turn of events because social media is fairly new and recent. I am wondering if searching a recent event on WorldCat will yield positive results as well. CUNY+, on the other hand, did not give me what I was looking for at all. I guess that is what one can expect from something that comes from CUNY.