ENG1121 Library Session

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:

The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design By John Templer, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.  

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:

Sennacherib, Archimedes, and the Water Screw: The Context of Invention in the Ancient World

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

EBSCO

Applied Science and Technology

 One Search

Lexis/Nexis

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