Searching By Subject...a Great New Way

So you have a research paper due tomorrow and you have no idea where to start to search for your topic.

Try our new new search boxes by subject that allow you to search several subject databases at once.

1st: From the Library Homepage

Click on Databases by Subject

2nd: Find the subject of your choice and click on that link.

3rd: Type in your search term in the search box (pictured below)being specific as possible and using " " quotes to make your term a phrase




Now wait for the book to finish turning to give search results.

Follow the links to the article(s) desired.

Happy searching

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How do you file your information? Something to think about.



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Getting out of the Noise

I always struggle with students on cell phones in the library. The library today should be more accommodating I think to myself. We now allow food and drink (within reason); we have group study rooms, collaboration at the computers is a growing trend, so why not cell phones.

Then I think of that one student in the back of the library. He's come here to get away from the noisy kids, or the distracting gaming roommate.

The library to that student is the one quiet place to come to study for that big test that will make or break his grade.

That student needs to not overhear what's for dinner, that student needs to not overhear what happened last weekend.

That student needs a sanctuary! This is why I tell people to silence their cell phone calls.

Is the library louder than it was 5 years ago. Yes, the very nature of libraries is changing and the need for collaboration has grown, so it is already a little too noisy for some and that is unfortunate.

However, each student who uses the library can and should control their cell phone conversations for the need of that student how came here to get out of the noise.

Lynn

Social Bookmarking.....

I have a great deal of favorite websites saved in Internet Explorer. I find myself at work ... and I want to look at something on my lunch hour.... but that bookmark is on my home computer!!! ERRR... and I don't remember where I saw that great website on Creating Blog Entries that pop.

Does this ever happen to you?? I have solved this problem with the help of technology!!

Social bookmarks. There are a few websites that let you keep bookmarks with tags in your own account to recall anytime you want. I'm no longer tied down to a computer specific favorites list. There are many social bookmarking websites out there, here are three good ones:

http://Del.icio.us is a yahoo based company where you create an account and then start adding your bookmarks or "tags"...your bookmarks are shared with other people and you can search others with similar insterests.

www.google.com has a social bookmark within their personal homepage setup...The thing I like about Google's is that you can create your own homepage with your RSS feeds and so much more. You can't really search others bookmarks so its more private.

www.simpy.com is another social bookmark tool that works similarly to google with a personalized homepage...you can search other bookmarks though.