Cabrillo College Library

Reading Center

What's on this page

 

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Before we get started -- World at Night || Prudhoe Bay || Map of Egypt

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage -<http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Select Reading
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on READ 255 for H. Holt, Part 1
  5. Make it a Favorite -- Towards the top of the screen, click on favorites , then on Add to Favorites. Whenever you want to come back to it in this class session, you can find it easily by clicking on favorites.
Maps and Atlases

Others

Did you have fun exploring some of these resources? What did you like best?

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Biography Resource Center

The library subscribes to a variety of fulltext databases that offer rich and diverse information. One of these is especially useful for learning about writers.
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
  3. Click on Biography Resource Center


  4. We are going to look for information about Ellen Goodman. The search will look like this --



    Click to read one of the essays. Write down something interesting that you learned.

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    Once you bring up the whole article, note that you can email it to yourself -- the icon for doing so is towards the top of the page, on the left     Nifty!!

Literature Resource Center
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
  3. Click on Literature Resource Center


  4. Click on Works Search -- you are going to search using a book title



    Type in Men are from Mars



    Read parts of the essay on John Gray. What did you learn that was interesting?

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    Note that you can do various things -- email the document, have it read to you (the MP3 file) , and you can even get help with citations!


Online Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

CREDO Reference provides access to over 445 specialized dictinaries and encyclopedias through a single interface. Here's how to get to it:
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
  3. Click on CREDO Reference (under Encyclopedias/Background Information, in center column)

    For example, here's a search for information about Buddhism.


    Being able to search inside 445 reference books at one time is powerful. You can do very precise searching. Look for information on a topic of interest to you and write down something you learned:

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Check for Web Resources
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Search the Internet
  3. On the next screen, click on Search Engines
  4. On the next screen, click on Google

Look for Web resources about a topic. Here's a search for "origins of Hinduism" -- using the quotation marks keeps words in that phrase together.

Once you get your results, click on Show options... Wow! Google has taken your results and grouped them! And especially notice the Wonder wheel -- it will suggest to you new words and phrases that are associated with your topic. Timeline can also be interesting, depending on the topic.

Do your own search on a topic of interest to you. What did you find?

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 Find Magazine Articles

Academic Search Premier lets you search and display full text articles from over 8000 periodicals; for over half of those, the articles are available full text. Here's how you use it:
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles
  2. Select Academic Search Premier (listed under General, in lefthand column)
  3. Click to go to Advanced Search



  4. Click in the small box next to Full Text -- this will limit your search to articles that are full text in the database.

    Here's a search for articles about religion in China.



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

Note that you can email the article to yourself -- click on the picture of the envelope. And you can click to get an already formatted citation to the article!!

Look for articles on topics you are interested in. Note down minimal information about one article you find.

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Before you go on, please click to fill out a little review.

After doing the review, go on to the next page.


New Administration and Trends. And News!

There is a lot going on in Washington these days, with a fairly new Administration and new policies. Want some good, fairly dependable Web sites that try to keep up? Try these!!

To bring up these Web sites, you have to come back to the Web page for this class. It's in your list of Favorites.

  • Citizen Tube: Watching Video Change our World. NOTE: You will probably have to hold down the CTRL key (bottom left on your keyboard) to play a video -- you need to disable the popup blocker on the computer.
  • FactCheck.org "You can have your own opinion but not your own facts"
  • Recovery.gov is where the Obama Administration tells you about where your recovery money is going. There's a Recovery.ca.gov site for California!
  • Sourcewatch is where you can find out about organizations you might have questions about. FreedomWorks, for example, has been sponsoring many of the "tea bag rallies" about health care reform. Sourcewatch will give you good, solid information about the group.
  • Trends to Watch from the PEW Center on the States

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Want to check on news stories?

  • Google News carries headlines and information from around the world
  • NewsMap groups news stories by region and topic
  • LinkTV: television without borders

    Go to the Bulletin Board for this class. Click on Post a new message. Type in your name and write a couple of sentences about what you learned from the political Web sites and/or the news sites.

World Leaders; American Congress Members; California Politicians

More political information:

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Researching Other Subjects

There are two good places to start to research topics.

Use the library's Internet Links.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Internet Links (3rd icon down on left)

    For every subject we teach at the college there is a link to high quality Web resources. Click to explore some subject areas like history or economics.

    What's your impression of these resources?

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The other resource is Librarians' Internet Index. These are Web sites selected by librarians, therefore they are "Web sites you can trust."

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Search the Internet (4th icon down on left)
  3. Click on Subject Lists and Directories
  4. Click on Librarians' Internet Index

Type in a subject and search for some resources. What did you find?

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Images

The Internet is full of fine images. Look for an image using one of these:

To insert an image into a Word document:

  1. Bring up a Word document    START -> Programs -> Word
  2. Go back to your image. Right click on it. Scroll down to Copy
  3. Go to your Word document. Position your cursor to where you want your image to be. Paste the picture (File -> Paste; or, use Ctl V)
  4. Under (or near) the image, type the word Source and include the title of the Web site where you got the image and its URL (Internet address).

If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. At the minimum, give the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy and paste the URL into your Word document -- highlight the URL, then Ctrl C to copy and Ctrl V to paste).

Tell us! Please share your thoughts about this session. Thanks!!

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. Under Course Related Materials, under READING, click on READ 255, N. Phillips

H. Holt and T. N. Smalley 11/09