Cabrillo College Library

What's on this page

Books 

Online Encyclopedia

CREDO Reference

Articles: Magazines; Newspapers

Internet Subject Lists

Internet Search Engines

Videos

Share your Thoughts

Getting to This Page on the Internet

   

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To get to the worksheet for this class --

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>.
  2. Click on Internet Links, and select Counseling. Scroll down and under Course-Related Materials, click on CG 52, P. Van Loon.
  3. Make this page a Favorite. Towards the top of your screen, click on then on Add to Favorites. Now, when you want to get back to this Web page, you click on .
Find Books in the Library
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>.
  2. Click on Library Catalog

pointLook for an author with your last name (or one similar to it) and a book that person has written

  1. Click to do a AUTHOR search
  2. Type in your last name
  3. Hit the Enter key
    Name found__________________________________ 

    Book title____________________________________________

    Year published____________ Number of pages_______________ 

point Look for information on a topic

  1. Write down any topic that interests you______________________________
  2. Click on
  3. Click to do a SUBJECT search
  4. Type in your subject (it can be any topic)
  5. Hit the Enter key
If your term isn't an official Library of Congress Subject heading, the online catalog may suggest a term to use 

    Subject heading(s)  [look where it says Subjects] for your topic

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    Author___________________________  

    Title________________________________________________

    If the book is a print source, you'll be told its LOCATION (e.g., Main Stacks), its CALL NUMBER (number on the spine of the book that shows where it is shelved), and its STATUS (is it on the shelves, or checked out?)

    If you're not given that information, this is an electronic book. The library has about 18,000 electronic books.

    Next, we'll search all the electronic books.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
  3. Under General (top left), click on NetLibrary e-Books (if you are off campus, type in your library card number)

    Write down a topic that interests you______________________________________________

    Look for an electronic book. What did you find?

    Title______________________________________________________

    Year published______________

The online catalog offers now a new interface called Encore

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Library Catalog
  3. Try doing a Keyword search

You'll see how it arranges the results of your search differently! What do you think of ENCORE?

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Using Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage  
  2. Click on Full Text Articles 
  3. Under Encyclopedias/Background Information (in the center), click on Encyclopaedia Britannica (if you are off campus, type in your library card number to get access)

Find information in the encyclopedia about a topic in which you are interested (any topic!)

  1. What's your topic? ______________________________
  2. Click in the search box
  3. Type in the words that express your topic
  4. Press Enter or click the SEARCH button 

Write down something you learned about your topic: 

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Using CREDO Reference 
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage  
  2. Click on Full Text Articles 
  3. Under Encyclopedias/Background Information (in the center), click on CREDO Reference

CREDO Reference lets you use one interface to search across over 350 specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries!! Wow!! Here's a search for information across all subjects about community colleges

-- Go on to the next page --

Your turn! Go to CREDO Reference and search for a topic of interest to you. What did you find?

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 Find Articles in Magazines using EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier

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. 
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under General (on the left), select Academic Search Premier (if you are off campus, type in your library card number)
  4. 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.

  5. Click on the little box next to the word Full Text to limit your search to full text articles on the database. 



  6. Type in your search terms and hit the SEARCH button. For example, here's a search for full text articles about careers and community college.

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point Use Academic Search Premier to identify a periodical article on a topic of interest to you.

From the results list, click on the article title to get to the screen with more information    

Article title_______________________________________

Periodical title (look where the screen says Source)

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Date of periodical__________________ 

You can easily email the article to yourself. And WOW! you can click to cite it!!

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Find Newspaper Articles

Proquest Newspapers is a database that includes articles from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles
    2.  
  2. Over on right, under News, click on Proquest Newspapers

Type in your search terms and click on Search. 

pointFind an article about something in which you are interested and make notes about it here.

    Title of article ____________________________________________

    Newspaper ______________________________________________ 

    Date of article _________________________ 

    You can email these articles, if you want.  Give it a try!

Internet -- Subject Lists

The Internet offers a vast ocean of information resources.  A good way to start is by using a Subject List, which gives you access to a selected number of quality resources.
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Search the Internet (fourth icon down on left)
  2. On the next screen, click on Subject Lists and Directories
  3. On the next screen, scroll down and click on Librarians' Internet Index
  4. In the search box, type in your topic
  5. Hit the Enter key, or click on the SEARCH button
Search for Internet resources on a topic of interest to you.
    Title of Web page you found:_________________________________

    Does it look interesting?  Helpful? _____________________________

Internet -- Search Engines

Subject lists provide wonderful guidance, but they cover only a small portion of the Internet.  To search more of the Internet, you need to use search engines. 
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Search the Internet
  2. On the next screen, click on Search Engines
  3. On the next screen, click on Google. Google is one of the Web's largest search engines.

It's important to evaluate Web resources: Evaluation.

When searching use quotation marks around phrases. Example: a search for otters and Monterey Bay would look like this

    "Monterey Bay" otters

New at Google -- try clicking on Show Options. Also: try out the Wonder wheel!!

Use Google to search for Web sites on a topic in which you are interested

Note information about one of them here: 

Title of Web page you found:________________________________

    Its URL (Uniform Resource Locator -- the exact Internet address)

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Videos on the Web!!

The Internet world is changing. More and more videos are available on the Web. Since anyone can upload videos, and zillions of people do, the quality is uneven.

The three main outlets for videos on the Web are

Blinkx is the best, in my opinion.

Please click on SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS and tell us how this session went for you. Thanks!

How to Get to This Page on the Internet

     

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on Counseling, and, under Course-Related Materials, select CG 52 College Study Skills, P. Van Loon
P. Van Loon; T. N. Smalley 
last rev. 11/09