Today, October 20th, I attended a short workshop in the Newman Library about Baruch’s search engine, Bearcat. Even though the workshop only lasted half an hour it was very helpful to those who attended. I will not deny that fact that the only reason reason I attended this specific workshop was because of its length but in the end it turned out to be really helpful. The workshop focused on Bearcat, a Baruch based search engine that searches through hundreds of already implemented databases. The leader of the workshop showed us how to be use the search engine and get the most useful information from it.
Before this workshop, I did not know Bearcat even existed, so that was a pleasant surprise. Thinking of the how I would use Bearcat, I thought as it as Baruch’s own google except it is better filtered and strictly educational. Bearcat is a clever invention and it is great that Baruch has this for its students to take advantage of it.
For a short workshop it was truly helpful.