Cabrillo College Library

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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
   If you are in the Library, just click on HOME towards the top of the screen.
2. Click on Internet Links (third icon down, on left)
3. On the next screen, click on English
4. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page, and under READING, click on READ 255, R. Smith

Make this Web page a Favorite on your computer (click on Favorites, then on Add -- way over on left), then click on the x to close Favorites. That way, you'll be able to go back to it easily -- just click on Favorites.

Let's begin with some fun resources: The Earth at Night and Egypt map ||

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Fulltext Articles (second icon down, on left)
3. Click on Literature Resource Center (on left, at bottom)
4. On the next screen, in the search box under the term Author Search, type in an writer's name -- last name first
5. When you get your results, click on the line underneath the author's name (that's the hypertext link to the text about the author).

   
   Name of person you looked up________________
   Write down something you learned about that person
   
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Notice that you can email this article to yourself (the icon for doing so is at the top of the page, on the left). Oops! Don't have email?? Here's information about getting an email account.

• Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
• Click on Fulltext Articles (second icon down, on left)
• Click on Britannica Online Encyclopedia (in righthand column)

Using the online encyclopedia, look up information on a topic that interests you.

Write down something you learned:

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If you are in Watsonville, you are close to Watsonville Public Library, and you can look for books in that library. And/or, you can look for books in the Santa Cruz Public Libraries online!

1. Click to go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Libraries, Other
4. Click on Santa Cruz Public or Watsonville Public Library (they are in the first grouping)

• You could do an Author search
• You could do a Subject search
• You could do a Word search

What's the book title? ___________________________________

Is it available? (look where it says Status) _________________________

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1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Fulltext Articles

(if you were accessing this from off campus, your library card number is your
user ID) 
2. Select Magazine & Journal Articles (EBSCOhost) (top left of your screen)
3. On the next screen, click on
4. On the next screen, click on  box towards the top of the screen.
5. Click in the small box next to Full Text -- this will limit your search to articles that are fulltext in the database.
   
   Type in your search terms and then click on the SEARCH button. Look for an article on a topic that interests you.

From the results list, click on the article title to get full information about it.

   Article title___________________________________

   Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) ____________________

   Date when published __________________ 

You'll note that this article is now fulltext on your screen. Use the scroll bar on the righthand side of your screen to scroll down through the article. Try emailing the article to yourself.

Web Sites about Reading

Try out two good Web resources about reading.

• Reading Skills Tutorials
• Reading and Remembering
• Suggestions for Improving Reading Speed

Make notes here about something you learned.

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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 English
4. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page, and under READING, click on READ 255, R. Smith