Today I went to a workshop called “Bearcat: The Other Google.” In this workshop I learned about Baruch’s database search engine, Bearcat. Although I had used Bearcat before, I still found the workshop interesting as the presenter went over a few functions of Bearcat that I had not known of. One of these functions is called RefWorks, which apparently helps people a lot with citations. This seems very helpful; I will definitely use it when it comes time to write a bibliography. Another part of Bearcat that I learned that is useful is the fact that Bearcat can filter searches by subject. For example, if I wanted to search about healthcare, I would filter my searches on the subject of healthcare, enabling me to get more specialized and more useful results. I have a feeling that Bearcat will be very useful to me in the future as I have a research paper to write and will most likely be using Bearcat to search databases for useful information.