Cabrillo College Library

Intercollegiate Athletics at Cabrillo

Cabrillo Football

1. Books  
2. Encyclopedia articles
3. Periodical articles 
4. Newspaper articles
5. 360 search
6. Google
7. Videos! 
8. Transfer an image
9. Help with writing assignments
10. Going on to a four year college

 

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links.
2. Then click on Athletics
3. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials
4. Click on PE 3, Introduction to College and Intercollegiate Athletics
5. Make this page a Favorite -- go to Favorites (top toolbar), click on Add to Favorites; click OK. Now you can get back to this page anytime by clicking on Favorites. (I may have already made this page a Favorite on your computer -- click Favorites to see.)

1. Use the library's online catalog to find books

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
2. Click on Library Catalog
3. Choose one of the following topics
   

   ___ football rules;  ___ weight training;  ___ study skills;  ___ time management

The library's online catalog has information about books (print or electronic), videos, DVDs, etc. that the library has. 

Search on the topic you picked and select a book. Books may be shelved in the main stacks, in reference, in the folio stacks, and a few other places; or it may be available electronically.  Note where your book is shelved (i.e., look where it says LOCATION), or, if it's an electronic book, notice that it's accessible via the Internet.

Author's name__________________________________

Book title______________________________________

Location_____________________________  or is it an electronic book? ___ yes; ___no

Call number___________________________ or is it an electronic book? ___ yes; ___no

Electronic books -- Over 18,000 electronic books (eBooks) are available to you are from a company called NetLibrary. They are easy to use! If you are on campus, at either Aptos or Watsonville, you can just click through to read an eBook. If you're off campus (e.g., at your computer at the public library or at home), just type in your library card number to read them.

You may have run across an electronic book or two in the search you just did, but to get to all the eBooks in one search --

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
3. Under General, click on NetLibrary e-Books

   Search using the topic you used above, or some other topic. What did you find?

   ________________________________________________

2. Use Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles 
3. Click on Encyclopaedia Britannica (listed in the center, under Encyclopedias/Background Information)

1. Click in the search box
2. Type in your topic (topic of your choice)
3. Press Enter or click the SEARCH button 

Write down something you learned about your topic: 

Here's how you use Academic Search Premier

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
2. Click on Full Text Articles 
3. On the next screen, under General, click on Academic Search Premier
4. Click to go to Advanced Search

Here's a search for articles that talk about transfer to a four year college. Note that I limited the search to full text articles.

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

You can click to email the article. And to cite it!!

Your turn!! Pick a topic to explore -- something of interest to you. What did you find?

Periodical title (look where it says Source)____________________

Periodical article title_________________________________

Date of the periodical__________________________

4. Find Newspaper Articles using Proquest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor) 

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles  
2. Click on Proquest Newspapers (in righthand column, under News)
   

Find an article about a topic of your choice and note basic information about it here

Title of article _______________________________

Newspaper _________________________________

Date of article _________________________ 

Note that you can email these articles, and also click to cite them.

5. 360 SEARCH -- A new search capability! You can now search more than one database at a time.

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles
2. Click on  
3. If you select Quick Search, the large more general databases will be searched. You can select all the databases, or narrow you search by general subject area or type of resource. The default setting is to search words in titles. You might experiment with changing that to keyword.
   
   

Your turn. Go to 360 SEARCH and try searching for information on a topic of your choice. What did you find?

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

6. Google searching

Google has introduced Universal Search, which blends information from a variety of previously separate sources. When you search on Google now, in addition to the Web, you also search videos, images, news, books and so forth.

Go to Google.com. Try searching in something other than the Web -- choose Books or Scholar. What did you find?

________________________________________________

7. Videos! You probably use YouTube.com. Google has bought YouTube.

1. Go to Google Video
2. Can you find the video for the West Hills College Falcons Basketball vs Cabrillo College in Coalinga?
3. You'll also want to know about Blinkx -- lots and lots of videos available there!

8. Transferring an Image from the Web to a Word doc
The Web is rich in images. If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. In a formal paper, use a style guide to cite your source. 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 -- Ctrl C to copy; Ctrl V to paste).

To get an image go to

• Corbis or go to
• GettyImages.com -- click on Creative then Search all Creative

To insert an image into a Word document:

1. On the Web, right click on the image; scroll down and click to copy
2. Open a Word document (START -> programs -> Word)
3. Position your cursor where you want the top left part of your image to be and paste (Edit -> Paste, or Ctrl V)

Your image is there. You can write next to and below the image. To put text around the image -- click on the image, go to Format -> Picture. Click on Wrapping tab, and select the wrapping format you want.

9. Help in writing papers and writing citations

• Cabrillo's Writing Center -- get help here on campus!
• Use OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University for lots of good information about researching and writing papers.
• Need help writing citations for books? Go to worldcat.org Look up your book, then click on

10. Going on to a four year college

• First thing to do is visit the Transfer & Career Center at Cabrillo College
• Check articulation agreements between Cabrillo and other colleges and universities using ASSIST
• Use California Articulation Number System to identify equivalent courses on various participating campuses

1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage  http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links. Then click on Athletics
3. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials
4. Click on PE 3, Introduction to College and Intercollegiate Athletics

T. N. Smalley 
last rev. 9/08