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Cabrillo's Engineering Technology Dept.
Computer
Basics
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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 are a real beginner, go through both tutorials, and then write down something you learned to do:
Electronic
Books In addition to print books, the Library
now has several thousand 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 somewhere other thanon campus, you must first set up an account with NetLibrary from somewhere on campus (Aptos or Watsonville). It's free. If you're not already registered, and you're on campus at the moment, go to NetLibrary to register. Click on "Create an Account" (over on the right). Remember your user name and password! Now you'll be able to use eBooks from off campus. 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. Click on Browse this eBook online 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 3,393 periodicals (both magazines and journals); for about 2,035 of those, fulltext copies of the articles are in the database. Here's how you use Academic Search Elite
Let's say you are looking for an article about using CAD for product design Here's how to do the search:
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 for periodical articles are written following a specific pattern, as illustrated here:  Note that the title of the periodical is underlined (if you are using word-processing, put titles in italics instead of underlining them). Note also that all but the first line of the citation is indented. (This is to make the authors' names stand out when you make a list of the sources.) Here's
a citation for the article published in IEEE Computer Graphics &
Applications titled "Virtual Building for Construction Projects":
National Newspapers (includes content from NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor)
Let's say that a friend of yours tells you it's ok to use a pirated copy of AutoCAD as you get started in the business. But, in the back of your mind, you wonder: really?? If people get in trouble for pirating AutoCAD, you reason, it would surely show up in a newspaper story. You decide to check, using National Newspaper Articles. Your search might look like this:
Note information about one of the articles you found.
Local newspaper -- Santa Cruz Sentinel Many newspapers have Web sites, and your local newspaper is no exception! To get to the Santa Cruz Sentinel Web site:
Are there any jobs for engineers being advertised this week? or, if not this week, then in a previous week? You can use other keywords as well, e.g., autocad. Note information about one of the jobs here:
Find a Web site on your own. Suppose that you are learning ArchiCAD and you wonder if there are free objects for ArchiCAD available on the Internet. Here's what you do:
Scroll down to get a sense of the Web pages in the results list. Do you see one from Australia (.au is in the domain name )? (When I did the search, it was near the top.) Write down something to remind yourself what you found:
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.
When you click through to the screen that gives you full information about a book, notice that it tells you not only its author, title, publisher and year of publication -- but also, for print books, the record indicates its location in the Library (Main Stacks, Reference, etc.), its call number, 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). If it's an eBook, you just click through to read it online. Note down the call number (the whole call number) for one print book (i.e., not an ebook) that looks interesting to you:
Go find the book on the shelves in the library. Here's a library floor plan that will show you where in 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. You need a library card
to borrow books. But there's more: 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
G. Marcoccia, T. N. Smalley 2/04; last rev. 5/04 |
(toward the top) 
The
search terms are in two search windows because you don't know ahead
of time if they'll be used next to each other. By typing in pirat*
(i.e., by using the asterisk), all forms of that word stem are searched,
i.e., pirate, pirates, pirating.
