CG 51

  

How to get to this page on the Internet
  1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage ( libwww.cabrillo.edu)
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Scroll down and click on Counseling
  4. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials, and click on  CG 51 Introduction to College, A. De Soto
Tour of the Library -- The webpage (and more)

Let's take a brief look at the "virtual" Library, the Library's home page, at libwww.cabrillo.edu:

  • Library Catalog (find books, magazines, and videos in the Library)
  • Full Text Articles (search through thousands of magazines, newspapers, etc.)
  • Internet Links (Internet links on all topics, grouped by subject area)
  • Search the Internet (Lists of search engines and subject directories)
  • About our Library (Hours, people, laptop checkout info, and lots more)
  • Library & Internet Instruction (Description of the Library's instruction offerings)
  • Ask a Librarian (send an email to a Reference Librarian!)
  • Cabrillo College Home (the main home page for the campus)
Finding Books in the Cabrillo Library Catalog -- A good place to start

Finding a book on a topic is often the best way to begin researching a subject. In addition, you can often find books targeting the level you're looking for: beginning, or advanced.

  • From the Cabrillo Library home page ( libwww.cabrillo.edu):
  • Click on Library Catalog
  • Search in WORDS, for a broad general search
  • Search examples :
    • alzheimer*
    • disease* and encyclopedia*
  • Use quotes around 2+ words that MUST belong together: "medical assisting", "santa cruz"
  • Use an asterisk (*) to pick up all words beginning with your term: fluorid* would pick up fluoride,fluoridation, fluoridating, fluoridated, etc.
Magazine Articles -- Using EBSCOhost to find articles

EBSCOhost provides access to fulltext articles from over 6,000 periodicals, and article summaries from an additional 4,000 periodicals.

  1. From the Library homepage (libwww.cabrillo.edu), click on Full Text Articles
  2. Click on Academic Search Premier (from off-campus you will need to enter your library card barcode number)
  3. Type in your search terms, then click on Search
  4. Search tips:
    • Put multi-word phrases in quotes, e.g., "santa cruz", etc.
    • Consider different words to express your topic, e.g., jobs, careers, profession
Sample searches:
 librarians and profession engineering and profession
 nursing and careers "social workers" and jobs

Internet Search Engines -- Finding needles in haystacks

Search engines are powerful websites for looking through very large portions of the Internet. Each search engine provides its own collection of tools and techniques for searching the Internet.

  1. Begin at the Google search engine website ( www.google.com)
  2. Type your search terms in the dialog box
  3. Click on the Search button
  4. Search tips:
    • Singular and plural forms of words must be searched separately
    • Put multi-word phrases in quotes, e.g., "santa cruz", etc.
    • To search a specific Internet domain or website:
      • scholarships site:gov
      • transfer site:ucsc.edu
      • "executive order 9066" site:santacruzpl.org
Web Directories -- Browsable lists of links
Web directories (e.g., Google directory, Infomine, etc.) let you browse through categorized collections of websites. Let's take a look at Google's web directory.
  1. Begin at the Google website ( www.google.com)
  2. Click on more>>>, then click on even more>>>
  3. Click on Directory
  4. Click on Business, then Employment
  5. Finally, click on Careers
  6. Explore!
Career Information Sources -- Looking for the perfect job

Below are some good sources of information on specific careers.

G. Romero; rev10/06