Take the guesswork out of web searching by starting with librarians’ picks. Librarians’ Index to the Internet at http://lii.org provides thousands of quality web sites that have already been approved as reliable, authentic and useful by librarians. Internet Public Library at http://ipl.org also provides sites deemed to be the best of the best by librarians. Both sites cover a wide range of subjects.
Archive for October, 2007
Two to Know
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Where should we meet?
Friday, October 12th, 2007A Group Study/Group Project Area is available in room 4545 across from the DCCC Library’s main entrance. Help to keep the main library a place of quiet study (and concentrated cramming) by arranging to meet your group in the pleasantly designed group study area across the hall. Tables, sofas, pc’s are available for your team. The ban on food and drink (minus water) for the main library does not apply in the group study area, so bring your coffee and let that group dynamic flow.
Take our books, please!
Monday, October 8th, 2007Yes, sometimes we weed books out of the collection to make room for new ones. So, if you need last year’s Book of Business Lists, or some classic (retro?) media history, help yourself to hundreds of weeded books on the tables outside of the library walls on FREE BOOK DAYS: Wednesday October 10th from 9 am through 10 pm and Thursday October 11th from 8 am through 10 pm. Free to a good home.
How to become an Expert Searcher
Friday, October 5th, 2007In addition to taking a three credit course called DPR 116: Online Research Strategies, students also have the opportunity to improve internet searching skills by using the three research tutorials featured on the front page of the library homepage at www.dccc.edu/library. “Search Path” is aimed at general freshman level research while the Nursing Tutorial and the Basic Business Tutorial with Exercise are more specific to their disciplines.
The Basic Business Tutorial with Exercises is not just a list of useful web sites; rather it is designed to help students think about, approach and evaluate the research process so that they can generate their own quality resources in the future. Eleven exercises appear throughout the tutorial. Students who wish to test their searching skills can print out the exercises only and fill in the blanks.