Thursday, February 7, 2013

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. 

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Jackie:

    I'm a big fan of Google scholar as well. This week was about exploring book catalogs/databases and understanding a bit about what information is searched or searchable. The language is more structured for Cannell and Summit to some extent but Summit is a much bigger resource and a great option. Thanks for your report. I'm glad you found IT Pro helpful as well.

    Cheers,
    Andrea

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