Cabrillo College Library
  

What's On This Page

Find Books

Find Periodical Articles

Introduction to the Internet

Subject Searching on the Internet

Periodicals

Newspapers

Getting to this Page

If you're new to computers, or to the Internet and the Web, you might want to first explore these Internet and Library Instruction resources. You might find these resources for improving your keyboarding/typing skills useful.

1. Find Books

If you are using the Cabrillo College Library in Aptos, follow these steps: To introduce you to the online catalog, you're going to look for a book on endangered species.  Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage by typing http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/ into the Location or Address box towards the top of the screen Click on Library Catalog (the 1st icon on the lefthand side of the screen) The screen is set to do a WORDS search. This option enables you to look for words used in titles and subjects. Type in endangered species and hit the Enter key, or click on GO Select a book by clicking on an underlined book title. The library's catalog contains information about books, videos, CD-ROMs, etc. that the library has.  You want to select a book.  The library also has about 9,000 electronic books (eBooks) -- these are online titles that you read on the computer. Online books are identified by the word Online or Electronic resource after the book title. (If you're curious, you can read about how you use eBooks.) For this exercise, select a book that is physically in the library (i.e., do not select an electronic book). Books can be shelved in the main stacks, in the reference area, in the folio stacks, and a few other places.  You want to select a book that is shelved in the main stacks. Please write the following information about the book you have selected. Author's name______________________ Book title__________________________ Call number_________________________ Check the book's  status.  If the status says "check shelves," the book should be available. If the book is checked out, a due date will be displayed. Should the book be available in the stacks?  ___ yes; ___ no. Here's the Cabrillo College Library floorplan. Go to the book shelves in the library -- the main stacks (# 1 on the floorplan) -- and find your book.  If your selected book is out (or not where it should be), notice that books shelved nearby are on similar topics.  If you have any difficulty finding the book on the shelves, stop by the library's Reference/Instruction Desk for assistance.

If you are using the Watsonville Public Library, follow these steps: To introduce you to the online catalog, you're going to look for a book on endangered species. Go to the Watsonville Public Library homepage by typing http://www.watsonville.lib.ca.us/ into the Location or Address box towards the top of the screen Click on Library Catalog (over on left) Select Simple Keyword. This option enables you to look for words used in titles and subjects. Type in endangered species and hit the Enter (or return) key, or click on Search Scroll down so you can see your choices. Select a book by clicking on an underlined book title. The library's catalog contains information about books, videos, audio tapes, etc. that the library has. So, be careful to select a book, which is identified by an image of a book: Books can be shelved in different areas, but most of the books about endangered species will be shelved in the Main (MN) Adult Non Fiction area. Please write the following information about the book you have selected. Author's name______________________ Book title__________________________ Call #_________________________ Check the book's  status.  If the status says "check shelf," the book should be available. If the book is checked out, a due date will be displayed. Should the book be available in the stacks?  ___ yes; ___ no. Here's the Watsonville Public Library floorplan. Go to the book shelves in the library and find your book.  If your selected book is out (or not where it should be), notice that books shelved nearby are on similar topics.  If you have any difficulty finding the book on the shelves, stop by the library's Reference Desk for assistance.

2. Use EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite to Find Periodical Articles 
Academic Search Elite provides access to information about articles published in several thousand periodicals. Many of the articles are available fulltext in the database.

Here's how you use EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage by typing http://libwww.cabrillo.edu into the Location or Address box towards the top of the screen. [If you are at a computer in the Library, just click on HOME towards the top of the screen.]
2. Click on Fulltext Articles (the 2nd icon down on the lefthand part of the screen)
3. On the next screen, click on Magazine & Journal Articles  (EBSCOhost) (top left part of screen)
4. On the next screen, click on
5. On the next screen, click on the Advanced Search box towards the top of the screen.
6. Click in the small box next to Full Text, to limit your search to articles that are fulltext in the database. You may have to scroll down the screen to do this.
7. Go back up to the search boxes (where it says Find: ) and type in your search terms.  Then click on the Search button. See the example that follows.

   Click to watch a little movie about how to use Academic Search Elite.

For your topic, choose an issue that makes you angry. You can use the Information as Research for Assignment # 6. What is your topic?

__________________________________________ 

Type in the words that represent your topic, and then click on the Search button. From the results list, click on the article title to read the article.

What is the title of the periodical? (look where it says Source) __________________________

What's the title of the article? ______________________________________

When was it published?_________________________

NOTE: Just so you know -- You can read an article on your computer screen, of course. When you are researching, you might want to print, save, or email the article. To do these things, once your article is on your screen, click on Print, or Email, or Save, towards the top of the screen, and follow directions.

3. Use the Internet: Introduction 
The Internet offers a huge, and always growing, set of resources.  Some materials on the Internet are very useful.  Some materials are of questionable value.  It's important to evaluate resources you access on the Internet.  One good guide for doing so is Evaluating Internet Resources. 

The Cabrillo College Library Web site lists, describes, and organizes selected resources and tools that help you search the Internet.  We'll introduce you to some of them. 

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage by typing http://libwww.cabrillo.edu into the the Location or Address box towards the top of the screen. [If you are at a computer in the Library, just click on HOME towards the top of the screen.]
2. Click on Internet Links (the 3rd icon down on the lefthand part of the screen)
3. On the next screen, scroll down and click on English. When you get to the English Web page, you'll see that here are some Internet links to selected resources for English and writing.
4. Under Specific Aspects, and then under Writing, click to go to the Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
5. Scroll down and click and read the section on Writing Informal Essays or Writing Thesis/Support Essays.   Briefly summarize one piece of advice you are given: 

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Search the Internet (the 4th icon down on the left side of the screen).

You are first going to use a Subject Directory.  Subject directories provide lists of selected Internet sites.  Yahoo! is one of the most popular subject directories.  From the Searching the Internet page: 

1. Click on Subject Lists and Directories
2. Then click on Yahoo!

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage  
2. Click on Search the Internet
3. Click on Search Engines
4. Click on Google

How to get to this library assignment on the Internet

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage   http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on English; then on Course-Related Materials
4. Scroll down and click on English 290, Writing Fundamentals

D. Putnam and T. N. Smalley 
8/99; last rev. 8/05