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name__________________________
Before we get
started -- Earth
at Night || Prudhoe
Bay || Map
of Egypt
| Find Books
in the Library |
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Library Catalog
- Type a topic into the Keyword search box.
 Look
up a topic of interest to you. What did you find? Books? Videos? Electronic books? What?
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To
get access only to electronic books
- Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on
left)
- Under
General (top left), click on NetLibrary
e-Books (if
you are off campus, type in your library card number)
Search
the electronic books using a topic of interest to you? Once you have the book on the screen, click to View this Book. Pretty amazing! What did you find?
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| Find
Articles in Magazines |
Academic Search Premier provides access to information
about articles published in approximately 8,000 periodicals.
For just over half of those, full text copies of the articles
are in the database.
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Full Text Articles
- Under
General (on the left), select Academic
Search Premier (if
you are off campus, type in your library card number)
- On the
next screen, click to go to the Advanced search interface.
With this advanced search screen, you can most efficiently search
more than one term at a time.
- Click
on the little box next to the word Full Text to limit
your search to full text articles on the database.
- Type in
your search terms and hit the SEARCH button. For example, here's a search for full text articles about Monterey Bay otters
From
the results list, click on the article
title to get to the screen with more information
Use Academic Search Premier to identify a periodical
article on a topic of interest to you.
Article
title_________________________________________________________________
Periodical
title (look where the screen says Source)
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Date
of periodical__________________
Proquest Newspapers is a database that includes articles
from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The Christian
Science Monitor
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Full Text Articles
- Over on right, under News, click on Proquest
Newspapers
Find
an article on a topic of interest to you.
Title of article ______________________________________________________________
Newspaper
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Date of
article ____________________________________________________
Notice that you can email the article, and even click to get a citation for it.
| Labor
Market Information for Santa Cruz County |
- Go to
Labor
Market Information for Santa Cruz County from the California
Employment Development Department.
- Click
on Local Area Profile
What is the current unemployment rate in Santa Cruz Country? ________%
What was the unemployment rate in January 2009? _______% (Click on Historical Data)
Scroll down
to table labelled Occupations with Fastest Job Growth
(% change)
Over the
period 2006-2016, the number of machinists in the county is projected to grow by what percentage? ______%
| Does
it Pay to Get an Education? |
Click to
go to Education pays
from the U.S. Department of Labor.
What
does the chart tell you about the relationship between earnings
and level of education? What about the relationship between unemployment and level of education?
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Google is digitizing books. Millions of them. Here's how it's being done.
Go to books.google.com. Here's a search for critical thinking in college. This search retrieves books published after 2000 that you can read all the way through.
Look for books on a topic of interest to you. What did you find?
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| How
to Get to This Page
on the Internet |
- Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
- Click
on Internet Links
- Click
on Counseling, and, under Course-Related Materials,
select CG 1, College Success, K. Mansfield.
K. Mansfield and T. N. Smalley, 10/09 |
