Cabrillo College
Library

Jeanette Richey

What's on this page

1. Background information

2. Find books in the Library

3. Find periodical articles

4. Find Newspaper Articles

5. Web Searching

6. Practical Uses

Finding maps

Using the College Schedule

Checking Textbook Costs at Bookstore

Get to this Internet Page

To get to this Web page:

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/>
2. Click on Internet Links (third icon down on left)
3. Click on English
4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on READ 100, Jeanette Richey

To identify good background information for your topic:

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. Click on Credo Reference    If you are off campus, you'll be asked to type in your library card number.

Here are some searches:

On this screen, you are told how many results there are, how long the articles are (in number of words), and there are suggestions as to how to narrow your search.

Here's a similar search for holocaust.

Your turn. Try using Credo Reference to identify background information on your topic.

What did you find?______________________________________________________

To find books about the Holocaust or about Indian reservations:

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Library Catalog
3. Do a keyword search for either topic

Here is a what you would get back for a search for Holocaust

Here's a sample search for the word Indians and the word reservations. The online catalog tells you what books, electronic books, videorecordings and DVDs etc. the library has. The first item listed here is a video, but over on the side you're told there are 11 books about the subject as well.

Your turn. Try finding books or other materials on your topic. What did you find?

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To identify periodical articles on your topic:

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
3. Click on Adademic Search Premier (top left, under General) If you are off campus, you'll be asked to type in your library card number.

Click to go to the Advanced Search Mode

And you'll want to limit to Full Text:

Here's a search for articles that are about children of Holocaust survivors:

Once you get a list of results, click on the article title to get to full information about it.

Once you bring up the whole article, note that you can click to print, email, and save the article.

Also: you can click to cite it!! How cool is that??  

Your turn! Use Academic Search Premier to look for articles on your topic. What did you find?

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1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. Under News/Newspapers, click on Proquest Newspapers (If you are coming in from off campus, type in your library card number.)

Use the Advanced Search mode. Here's a search for articles about Indian reservations and alcoholism.

Note where you click to print the article. And note that you can email this article, and also get a formatted citation for it.

Your turn! Look for some newspaper articles on your topic. What did you find?

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We all use Google as our primary search engine. It's the biggest, the most innovative, and the best. Really.

The problem with using Google is that anyone can publish on the Internet. So you need to think about the information that is being presented. It is probably best to depend on books, journal articles, and newspaper articles for most of the information you gather. When you do use Google, here are some techniques to help you:

• A domain name in a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that has .com in it -- that's a commercial site, and, in the end, they probably want to sell you something.
• A domain name with .org is an organization of some sort -- like the public radio site listed above. Might be trustworthy.
• A domain name with .edu in it is an educational institution. Might be trustworthy.
• A domain name with .gov in it is from the government. Should be trustworthy.
• Let's together look at some Web sites that are fakes and of dubious quality: Evaluation
• You can find out when a Web page was last worked on by typing the following into where the URL is:
  javascript:alert(document.lastModified).

Use Google to find some information on your topic. Find at least one good quality Web site. Find at least one that is bogus or is non-credible.

Good quality Web site:_____________________________________________

Why I think it is___________________________________________________

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Not very good quality Web site:_________________________________

Why I think that's the case __________________________________________

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Finding maps -- Go to maps.google.com

Using the college schedule

1. Go to the Cabrillo College homepage http://www.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Class Schedules (top left)

Checking textbooks in the College Bookstore

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links (third icon down on left)
3. Click on Books, Bookstores, Book Reviews -- Cabrillo College Bookstore is listed 3rd under Bookstores, Santa Cruz area

You might want to explore the Web sites listed under Book price comparisons. If you do some online shopping, you can often find copies of textbooks priced lower than the college bookstore price. For example, for Math 12, Joseph Krause uses a textbook titled Introductory Statistics by an author Prem S. Mann. It is sold in the bookstore for $147 new, and $110 used. If you use the BestBookBuys Web site, you'll find that you can buy at some online bookstores for as low as $43.00.

Students have reported problems when purchasing textbooks online so it's not a perfect alternative. Sometimes, your instructor wants you to have a specific edition of the textbook, and you find it hard to discern if the one your thinking of buying IS that specific edition. Librarians LOVE figuring that kind of thing out, so come talk with a librarian!

Another problem students have reported is sometimes the book doesn't arrive in a timely fashion. Sometimes, they have purchased a second copy from the bookstore while waiting for that first copy to arrive. Not fun! The library has a copy of every textbook over $50 on Reserve, so that might help you get over that hurdle.

Getting to this page on the Internet

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library home page <libwww.cabrillo.edu>
2. Click on Internet Links, then click on English
3. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials and click on Reading 100, Jeanette Richey

J. Richey and T.N. Smalley Fall 09