Cabrillo College Library

Open a Word document to use instead of filling out this exercise sheet by hand. Put your name on the document, and label the parts of the worksheet as you do them.

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name____________________________________

To get to the Web page for this class:

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Make it a Favorite or Bookmark it
  3. Click on Internet Links
  4. Click on Computer Applications/Business Technology
  5. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials, and click on CABT 100 and make it a Favorite or Bookmark it.

Find Demographic Information
You want some population information for California and Watsonville. To do that
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Internet Links (third icon down, on left)
  3. Click on Statistics
  4. Scroll down, and under U.S. Government Statistics, click on Census Bureau

    Over on the righthand part of the screen, where it says Population Finder



    change that to California. You'll be taken to a new page.

Where it says Select a city

change that to Watsonville and click Go.

Note down the following information:

  Watsonville California
Population, 2003 estimate    
Population, 2000    
White persons, percent 2000    
Black or African American persons, percent 2000    
American Indian (and Alaska native persons) percent 2000    
Asian persons, percent 2000    
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent 2000    

Next, you want to know the number of women in the workforce in California.

California Labor Market Review is online. This is a monthly publication that reviews labor trends in California. The link is to the July 2007 issue. Click to bring it up, and go to page 3.

Scroll down a bit and look at the table Employment Status by Demographic Group, California. Numbers are in thousands.

As of July 2007, how many females age 16+ were in the labor force in California? Remember: the numbers in the table is in thousands -- add 3 zeros to the number.

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California's Employment Development Department has a Labor Market Information page for Santa Cruz County. Scroll down and click on County Snapshot. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page to the pie chart for Santa Cruz County Employment by Industry.

Professional and Business Services constitute what percentage of jobs in the county?

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Find Periodical Articles
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Select Full text Articles 
  3. Under Business and Economics, click on Business Source Premier. [If you are coming in from off campus, your user ID is your library card number]  
  4. On the next screen, click on  so you can search using several search terms
  5. Click in the small box next to Full Text
  6. Type in your search terms.  Then click on Search 

When you get a results list, click on an article title to get to the screen with full information about it.

Use Business Source Premier to search for an article on a topic of interest to you. If you can't think of one offhand, try using Watsonville as a search term. Note down information about one article you find:

Article author_____________________

Article title__________________________________

Title of periodical in which it was published (look where it says Source)

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When was it published?__________________

 

Find newspaper articles
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Over on right, under News, select Proquest Newspapers
  4. Click on Advanced Search

Search for a newspaper article on a topic of your choice, or about Watsonville. What did you find?

Title of article____________________________________________

Newspaper in which it was published________________________

Date______________________________

Find quality Web resources

It's important to evaluate what you find on the Internet.

Use quotation marks (" ") to keep words in phrases together

Use Google.com to find information about how educational levels effect what women earn. Here's one site: Differences in Women's Earnings by Educational Level. Can you find others?

Information about a Web site you found:

URL_____________________________

What information is provided?

_____________________________________________________

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Please Share Your Thoughts about this session

To get to this page on the Internet

  1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on Computer Applications/Business Technology
  4. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials, and select CABT 100

C. Ross and T. N. Smalley, 9/07