Questions:
What is EasyBib?
Reliability of Wikipedia: anyone can edit it; may not be credible or reliable
What makes a research source reliable? The author, the date, the publisher, citations, references.
information networks
research strategies
using different library information resources
searching on Google: “communications technology,” i.e., clay tablets (antiquity) to embedded chips (near future)
Kenrick: Architecture and Technology : WHAT ARE YOUR SEARCH TERMS??????
Open Internet
Library Databases
Search Fields: Author, Title, Abstract, Keywords, etc.
Boolean Search Terms: Most databases don’t understand natural language, i.e., “how are stairs designed?”, the database will not understand the question. I must make the question legible to the database, i.e., “stairs and design and history” or “stairs and architecture” or “stairs and usability and architecture”, the database can “read” the question
Google Books:
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tfQJAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=%22john+templar%22+staircase&ots=d4hDhMNkUa&sig=7lxoXHTxvcOHWaC14r7bXxk1Ipc#v=onepage&q=%22john%20templar%22%20staircase&f=false
Open Internet Results:
http://articles.philly.com/1993-07-23/living/25975541_1_staircases-riser-handrails
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-23/news/mn-14599_1_stair-safety
Subjects: staircases, culture and technology, history of technology
Google Scholar:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tech/summary/v044/44.1dalley.html
Other Books:
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=DV8IGo88aTQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=staircase+architecture+%22history+of+technology%22&ots=DC6SE3Ov08&sig=wJSs1YV4T4G07q005U7KIABCgaI#v=onepage&q&f=false
General Databases:
Gale Virtual Reference Library
