Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Assignment 3

·  I have chosen, "how does Marijuana affect college students?"
·  I am looking for general background on my topic and a little bit of some specifics.
·  I went to the Library, on the library computers, there is a homepage with the Library catalog. I went through the catalog wrote down the books I saw that I think would be helpful with my research, then I took it up to a librarian to help me explain where I could locate the books.  My search string was substance abuse, and marijuana. The only thing I really had problems with was looking up the books only on the library catalog. Reason being that I had too many unnecessary words that I typed into the search box. Then when I deleted the words, I had some good results. What I noticed was if I had very few words in the search box too, I did not quite get good results.
·  I looked for an Ebook on my topic. I did not enjoy reading the Ebook. I will not be interested in reading an Ebook, but if I have to use it I will. It is not my first option, because reading the Ebook feels like so much is being thrown to someone at one time.
·  It gets overwhelming and I became reluctant reading it. It feels like so much to read. My eyes were also tired. 
·  No I do not have a mobile device that allows me to read Ebooks.
·  Here I use two different search strings. Marijuana and Marijuana effects. I went to the website home page and typed in my key words. Then I had a lot of options to choose from. It was a little bit much more easier to get the books I was looking for and I had more results.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Yvonne,

    It seems that you were able to troubleshoot your search strategies successfully. Congratulations!

    You also have a bias-free research question, which will help immensely when you start looking for articles through our online databases. Excellent!

    Were you able to find any good books in the Great River Regional Library OPAC? Did you see if any would be good for your research project? Let me know...

    Professor Wexelbaum

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    1. I did not look at any specific book at the Great River Regional Library OPAC. But I put in my search string and had some options that came up in my results that I thought I could use for my project.

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