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The three things that were most helpful to me were developing a topic, focusing the research question, and authority of authors. Developing a topic is helpful because sometimes the most helpful thing to do is just draw a concept map and try to get ideas from it, it can be a starting point. Focusing the research topic will be important in the future when I will be writing longer research papers. It will be helpful to have a focused question rather than a broad question that needs a lot of information to answer. Authority of authors will be useful because professors need to see if the sources you used will be credible.

One thing I wish we spent more time on was going more in depth for in the databases.

Newspaper Article

“Google introduces new tool for scholarly research.” Associated Press Newswire. 18 Nov. 2004. Factiva. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Magazine Article

Markoff, John. “TECHNOLOGY; Google Plans New Service For Scientists And Scholars.” New York Times. 18 Nov. 2004: 6. MASTERFILE Premier. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Journal Article

Scott, Ralph Lee. “Two New Search Engines: MSN Search/Beta and Google/Scholar [computer file].” North Carolina Libraries (Online) Winter 2004: 235-6.  Library Literature and Information Science Full Text. Web. 9 Nov. 2011.

Book

Miller, William, and Rita M. Pellen. Libraries and Google. Binghamton, NY, USA: Haworth Information Press, 2005. WorldCat. Web. 14 Nov. 2011

ACM Digital Library

ACM Digital Library is a database which contains collections of journals/transactions, magazines and proceedings. The database is mainly focused on computer science and mathematics. The formats that appears the most are articles. There is controlled vocabulary in this database but the database refers to it as index terms. One unique feature of ACM Digital Library is it has a small section on the main page which features the recently loaded issues and proceedings.

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center is a database that provides resources on authors and their topics and works. The subject specialty is Literature, and the formats used are articles, books, journals, and magazines. This database does use controlled vocabulary. One unique feature of this database is it gives you other searches that may be related to your search on a sidebar.

In the CUNY library catalog you can find books, textbooks, newspapers, magazines, DVDs, electronics resources, laserdiscs, sound recordings, and musical scores. You cannot find newly released textbooks/dvds/cds?

Title: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Call Number: PS3603 .O4558 H86 2009
Location: Staten Island – Stacks 3rd Floor
Status: Regular Loan
Due date: 9/14/11