library search

The following task is designed to expand your familiarity with online Information and Library Service’s OneSearch function. 

As with the previous two library tasks, completing this exercise will help inform your research for the final research-based report in our class.

Please watch the following video tutorial. 

Video tutorial #3

http://polaris.umuc.edu/de/csi/2012_library_tutorials/tutorial_03/tutorial_03.html

After you have watched the tutorial, please complete the following tasks. 

1. In the previous exercise, you found article related to millennials.  For this exercise, please either find the same article or conduct a new search and find a new article on the topic of millennials.

When you have found the article, follow the instructions provided on the video and select a new database on the right-hand side of your screen.  Then answer the following questions:

-What database did you select?

-How many hits do you find?

Next, conduct a new search to find an article on a topic of your choice, as you did in the previous library exercise. 

When you have found an article, follow the instructions provided on the video and select a new database on the right-hand side of your screen.  Then answer the following questions:

-What were your search terms?

-What database did you select on the right-hand side?  Why did you select this database?

-How many hits do you find after choosing this database?     

Please answer the questions in this forum in complete sentences, and have the equivalent of two paragraphs.