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Radiologic Technology Program at Cabrillo
If you ever need assistance, you are welcome to ask questions at the Reference Desk in the Library, or email me, Topsy Smalley, tosmalle@cabrillo.edu |
Getting Acquainted with Cabrillo College Library These exercises will acquaint you with various library and Internet resources as they apply to your studies in radiologic technology. Stop by the Cabrillo College Library sometime before you start your Rad Tech courses to do these exercises, and you'll feel much better prepared! Since you are not yet a student, go to the Reference/Instruction Desk and ask to be signed in to use a computer as a guest (need picture ID). To print, ask for a guest ID at the Circulation Desk. First, go to this page on the Internet --
To do the exercise, go back and forth between the print and online version of this exercise as needed. Exercise 1: Library Online Catalog
Your results should look something like this: 1. Identify one book in the main stacks (# 3 on the library floor plan), and one book in the folio stacks (# 4 on the library floor plan). Using the floor plan, and going by the call number, walk over and locate where those books are shelved. Main stacks book
Folio stacks book
Reference book -- Go back to the Library Catalog. Search this time for ultrasound anatomy. Select a reference book, and note its call number here:
Now do a search for radiology critical care. One of the records you retrieve will be for an electronic book.  This library has over 28,000 electronic books. When you find electronic books in doing a search in the online catalog, you just click through to read them. When you are on campus (either Aptos or Watsonville), you don't need a password. If you are off campus, you just type in your Cabrillo College Library card number. Sweet! You can access and read these books 24/7.
Exercise 2: Find Periodical Articles -- A periodical can be either a magazine or a journal. Both are periodicals, i.e., publications issued on a regular schedule (i.e., periodically), and planned to be published indefinitely. Magazines are popular; journals are academic. You'll be using mostly journals for your studies. These are the primary databases you will use to find periodical articles for rad tech topics:
Here's how you use the periodical dabases
A sample search for articles on diagnostic imaging of traumatic brain injury:
The asterisk ( * ) is used to retrieve multiple word endings -- injur* retrieves injury and injuries; imag* retrieves imagery and imaging. Search for periodical articles on one of these topics:
Click
on a periodical title to get to the screen with full information about
it Date of the periodical____________________________________
Exercise 3: Using Internet Resources -- Explore some high quality Internet resources for radiologic technology
Exercise 4: Finding Your Own Web Sites Go to Google.comSuppose you are interested in finding Web resources about magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine, and you want something from an educational institution. Type this in as your search:
Google
will retrieve Web sites that have the word spine AND
the initialism MRI, and limit the search to Web sites at educational
institutions.
Make notes here about some sites that you found:
Exercise 5: Print periodicals -- Many periodicals are available electronically, but you should know that we still subscribe to the print version of one important journal for your studies:
Find where the current periodicals are kept in the Library (# 2 on the floor plan) and go over and look at the most recent issue. Whew! Now that you've done all that, you're going to feel pretty darn comfortable when you get your first library research assignments! To get to this page on the Internet
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