Cabrillo College Library

Jeanette Richey

What's on this page

 

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Before we get started

  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 J. Richey
  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. (I may have already done this -- click on Favorites to see!)
Night by Elie Wiesel

Images -- we'll review these images as a group

Visit Auschwitz 1940-1945 (PBS) and/or The United States Holocaust Museum

What are some of your impressions having looked at these resources? ________________________

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The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez

What are some of your impressions having looked at these resources? ________________________

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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. 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!!
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. 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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Online Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

CREDO Reference provides access to over 350 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)

    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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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

Click in the search box and search for "Francisco Jimenez" circuit. Use the quotation marks to keep the words that make up the name together. Or search for "Elie Wiesel" night. Here's an example:

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 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!!

Web Sites about Reading

Read two good Web resources about reading.

Make notes here about something you learned.

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Read two good Web resources about Writing an Essay.

Make notes here about something you learned.

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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).

Reasearching a current catastrophe

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:

Once you have a disaster in mind, you'll want to find newspaper articles about it. Do this --

  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 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

J. Richey T. N. Smalley, last rev. 11/09