Database Feature and Searching Techniques

Part 1:

Lyric change and censorship

Current economy and Great Depression

Earnings for college graduate and high school graduate

vegetarian diet or meat-based diet

natural medicine or traditional medicine

Part 2:

My topic: Personal Privacy

My research question: What things associated with personal privacy are most concerning to people?

Boolean search: personal privacy and personal concerns

Digging Into Databases & Books Summary

In this section I learned a couple key things. The first was that there was a database of technical books called ITPro. It was multi function and could benefit a student, professional, or someone just curious about things. 

Another thing I learned was from the assignment instructions. I knew about Summit but I didn't I know that they can send books to Clark for a student. This will be very helpful in future classes.

This assignment surely opened my eyes to several other resources and I think that they will all be very helpful to me at some point. As far as this class goes I will probably use a combination of Summit and Google Scholar (if allowed). 

I was surprised that Google Scholar wasn't included in this assignement. I learned about this database previously and found it very helpful when writing my research paper for English 102. 

Google Books Search

In my Google Books search I looked up  Privacy, Personal Privacy, Violation of Privacy like I did in the Cannell Library and Summit searches. 
The book that looked most interesting to me was:
Pennock, J. Roland, and John W. Chapman. Privacy & Personality. New Brunswick (U.S.A.): Aldine Transaction, 2007. Print.
Being pretty familiar with Google Books already, I use it to look for new books to read and buy eBooks there regularly, I knew to look at theAbout This Book link and then scroll to the bottom to find a little info on the author(s). This helps me know if the authors are credible by giving background information like their education and experience. 

IT Pro Search

I found this site interesting because it was for technical books. Though I did search for Home PC like the assignment said to, I also searched for a few things of my own. I found this site useful because I'm a computer technology major.
I liked that under advanced search I could search the full text, author, ISBN, or the notes.

Summit Catalog Search

I used the same search terms as I did when I searched in Cannell Library so that I could Accurately compare my results.


Altman, Irwin. The Environment and Social Behavior: Privacy, Personal Space, Territory, Crowding. Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole Pub., 1975. Print.


Eighteen universities in the area have this book. I decided it was credible when I saw on Summit that many of the universities that have the book are large and credible ones. I would hope that the universities that are so well known like WSU and PSU would try to keep their books credible.
This search was different from Cannell Library search because it let me know what kind of places carry the book other than Clark College.

Cannell Library Book Search

Search Term used: Privacy, Personal Privacy, Violation of Privacy

Lankford, Ronald D. Are Privacy Rights Being Violated? Detroit: Greenhaven, 2010. Print.


This book is a hardback book located on the second floor of the library. I knew this was a credible source when I looked up the book editor and he is well known and well educated about the topic. 

Types of Information

For my first question, What things associated with privacy are most concerning to people?, I honestly think I'd search forums where people talk about privacy or even try out Google Scholar since it seems to have more unconventional topics. I think these would work well because this question is actually more of an opinion question. 


For my second question, Who would benefit from invasion of privacy?, I would actually use something a little more formal such as Summit or possibly even ITPro since this could bring up some technical answers.


For my third question, What area of privacy concerns me most?, I'd use a collection of information sites and also forums. I'm not also so confident in information from forums but since this is another question that is kind of an opinion, I'd be interested in seeing what areas others are concerned with since there may be areas that I've never thought about.


I realize that I'm saying use forums for a couple of these and that they aren't very reliable but I feel that if a person has a good understanding of fact and opinion, it shouldn't be a big issue as long as someone is willing to weed through.
-Jackie