Cabrillo College Library

Jeanette Richey

What's on this page

• Night resources
• The Circuit resources
• Biography Resource Center
• Literature Resource Center
• Online Encyclopedias
• Web Resources
• Magazines
• Web Sites about Reading
• Researching Other Subjects
• Images
• Current catastrophe

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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. On the next screen, in the search box under the term Author Search, type in your author's name like this:
   
   
   
   
   In searching for Jimenez you'll have to select the right one!
   
   
   
   Read one of the essays about him. Write down something 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!!

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. On the next screen, type Elie Wiesel, the author of Night. Check that you are searching for words in the name of a Person.
   
   
   

Click to bring up one of the articles. Read through it. What is one thing that you learned about the author?

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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)
   
   CREDO Reference is a fabulous tool to use when you want background information on a topic. Here's a
   search for information about Nazism:
   
   
   
   
   
   What did you look for and what did you find?
   
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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

What did you find?

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 children and the Holocaust. The asterisk ( * ) after child* means that
   child and children will both be searched.
   
   

Your turn. Try out a search. From the results list, click on the article title to get full information about it.

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Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) _______________________________________

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Note that you can email the article to yourself -- click on the picture of the envelope.

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!!

• What is Critical Reading?
• Reading Your Textbooks Effectively and Efficiently
• Effective Reading: Taking Notes

Make notes here about something you learned.

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Read two good Web resources about Writing an Essay.

• Argumentative Essays
• Essay Writing
• Ten Steps to Writing an Essay

Make notes here about something you learned.

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

• Corbis
• GettyImages
• Flickr

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).

You may already have a current catastrophe or disaster in mind. If you do, skip the next sextion and go directly to
researching it. If you don't have a current catastrophe or disaster in mind, explore the following Web resources:

• FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency --Scroll down to Recent Emergency and Disaster Activity.
  There's also a list of Major Disaster Declarations (scroll down)
• List of Ongoing Conflicts (wars)
• Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather -- from the Guardian; includes videos
• Travel Notices from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; look under "outbreaks"
  

Once you have a disaster in mind, you'll want to check CQ Researcher and newspaper articles. Here's how you
do that.

For CQ Researcher:

1. Go to the Cabrillo Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. Under General (top, left) click on CQ Researcher

Here, for example, is the result of a search for information about human trafficking:

Note how you can send it as email, even get a citation for it!!

Here is how you find newspaper articles:

1. Go to the Cabrillo Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. Way over on the right, under News select Proquest Newspapers

Type in keywords and click search. Here, for example, is a search for news stories about the current civil war in Somalia:

Here's one of the articles in the results list. Note how I can click to print the article, click to email it, and even
click to cite it!!

Your turn! Use CQ Researcher and the Proquest newspaper database to find information about your catastrophe.
What did you find?

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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. Under READING, click on READ 255, J. Richey