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name________________________________ Go to this page on the Internet.
The New User Tutorial covers computer basics, and Mousercise takes you through what you need to know to use a mouse. If you need this kind of practice, through both tutorials, and then write down something you learned to do: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Electronic
Books In addition to print books, the Library
now has about 8,000 electonic books, called eBooks.
The Library online catalog has information about both print books
and electronic books, and gives you access to the fulltext of the
electronic ones.
Read Information about eBooks. If you want to use eBooks from home, you must first set up an account with NetLibrary from somewhere on campus (Aptos or Watsonville).
Next, you're going to look for some electronic books.
Select one of the books by clicking on the title, then (in the middle of the screen) click on Access this electronic book via the World Wide Web. It might be fun to select Culinary Arts Career Starter or Opportunities in Culinary Careers, but you choose! Click on View this eBook Look at the Table of Contents for the book, browse one of the chapters, etc. Note down something you learned: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Find Periodical Articles EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite provides access to information about articles published in approximately 3,300 periodicals (both magazines and journals); for about 2,000 of those periodicals, fulltext copies of the articles are in the database. Here's how you use Academic Search Elite
Select
an article! From the results list, click
on an article title to get to the screen with full information about
it Periodical title (look where it says Source):__________________ Date of the periodical__________________________ Once you have the fulltext article on your screen, notice that you can print, email, or save it. For example, if you want to email it to yourself (or someone else), just click on E-mail towards the top of the screen and type in the email address.
Create
citations
When you use information (including images) that you
did not create or write yourself, you credit the individual(s) from
whom you obtained them. You do this by writing a citation for the material.
Citations are written following a specific pattern, as illustrated here:
__________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ National Newspapers (includes content from NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor)
You might try using the Advanced search mode. Type in your search terms and click on Search. Note that fulltext articles are marked by a symbol (most of the articles are fulltext in the database). Most newspapers feature columns about foods, so they are a good source of recipes. Find a fulltext article with a recipe for chicken enchiladas and note basic information about it here Title of article ___________________________________ Newspaper _____________________________________ Date of article _________________________ You
can email these articles, if you want. Give it a try!
Local newspaper -- Santa Cruz Sentinel Many newspapers have Web sites, and your local newspaper is no exception! Let's say you'd like to read articles about local wines (without having to plough through all those back issues of the newspaper!) To get to the Santa Cruz Sentinel Web site:
Over on the lefthand side of the screen are some QUICK LINKS. Click on Archives. In the search box next to the word For: type in local wines. From the results list, select one or two to read. Learn anything? What? ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
Click
to go to at least one of the Web sites listed under General
Websites and two of the Web sites listed under Specific
Aspects. Explore around. Get a feeling for what they have to
offer.
Also, explore CAFE's Resources Once you have explored the Web sites, click to go to the Bulletin Board for this class, click on Post a New Message, and type in your name. Tell us which Web pages you explored and what you found good (or bad) about them. If you want, you can make notes below before you go to the bulletin board. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Find a Web site on your own. Suppose some friends of yours told you about this really fabulous store for cooks called Williams-Sonoma. They had been to the Williams-Sonoma store in Los Gatos, and thought it was terrific. But, you don't have a car. Do you have to miss out altogether? Surely, you think, Williams-Sonoma would have a Web site (doesn't everybody?). You can use a Web search engine to find out!
Have fun exploring, but especially look at the recipes section. Go back to the Bulletin Board for this class and tell us what recipes sound good to you! Or, comment about something else you learned. If you want, you can make notes below before you go to the bulletin board. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Use Web search engines Go back to the search engines list (you were just there in the activity you just did). When using search engines
1. Someone has told you that an organization called Women Chefs and Restaurateurs is having a conference this Fall. Where and when is it? (If the conference has already happened by the time you do this exercise, select some other WCR event and note information about it.) __________________________________________________ ********************************************************************************** __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ What is one of the Active FSIS recall cases? What's the date on it? Is there a press release? __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Find a couple books -- and maybe check them out! We'll finish this exercise with you finding an actual hard-copy book or two in the Library.
You might try a WORDS search -- e.g., look for Latino recipes, or Greek foods, or baking, or brunches. You could also try a subject heading search. The primary subject heading for culinary arts books is COOKERY, followed by a descriptor. Examples:
When you click through to the screen that gives you full information about the book, notice that it tells you not only its author, title, publisher and year of publication, but it indicates its location in the Library (Main Stacks, Reference, etc.), its call number (virtually all culinary arts books will have call numbers beginning with TX), and its status (if it says "CHECK SHELVES," it should be on the shelf by call number; if it's out, the due date is indicated). Note down the call numbers (the whole call numbers) for two books that look interesting to you: 1.__________________________________________ 2.__________________________________________ Go find them on the shelves in the library. Here's a library floor plan that will show you where the Main Stacks are (on the floor plan, it's the area marked as BOOKSTACKS). Feel free to ask for assistance at the Reference/Instruction Desk. If, by chance, the books you want are not on the shelves (someone else is probably using them), look at the books shelved nearby. They will be on very similar topics, and may interest you! You're welcome to check books out! If you don't yet have a library card, it only takes a few minutes to get one....it's free to you as a student, and is very valuable. Anyone can access the Cabrillo College Library Web site from anywhere in the world, and there's a lot there to use. However, if you're off campus and you want to use those wonderful online fulltext resources, you need your library barcode number. There's a wooden table to the left of the Circulation Desk where you can fill out the form to get your card. Take the form to the Circulation Desk. You'll need a picture ID. Please let us know what you thought of this Exercise! Thanks! To get to this Web Exercise on the Internet
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