1. My topic is the effect of Prostitution on women's health.
2. I am looking for both background and more specific information about this topic because they will help me construct my introduction and body of the paper resopectively.
3.The following are my search strings
D2L content page of IM 204 ; The miller centre LIbrarywebsite,I logged in with my student id number bar code, i typed books on prostitution and cliciked search. some books on prostitution came up i copied the call number of the one i felt i will need.The books call number is HQ115.P762006. This really didn't take time because i typed in the key words which i think was not too broad for the search.
4.I found very few E book through advanced search about two. I will really be interested in reading E books if i will be able to see more that will be related to my topic . This will help me get a wider view and more knowledge about my topic when i join it with books.
5. The E book i glanced through was faster in getting information unlike the traditional print book that you have to go through the contents before you could find things that might be of help in your topic.
6 I dont have a mobile device but if i had one, it will be definitely faster for me than reading a print book.
7.The link on the assignment page take me to the St cloud great river regional library, instead i had to google st cloud great river regional library OPAC, which took me to their website. again i typed in books on prostitution and it was only 7 books that came up of which none was related to my topic even though they were about prostitution.
The search research of st cloud state bears more strings and also have more books than that of great river regional library.
Hi Yvonne,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post on searching the OPAC for books/EBooks on your topic.
Because you have an interesting topic (and I was curious to see what we did have in the collection that had something to do with prostitution and health) I also did the Advanced Search for "prostitution" and "health", and limited it to books. Some interesting stuff here!
Now that we have learned about encyclopedias in class (and since your next blog post involves comparing an encyclopedia entry on your topic and a Wikipedia entry), see what you can find in terms of encyclopedias that would address your topic. The information there may help you gather some of the background information you need to formulate a research question.
Let me know if you have any questions...
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum
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