Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Focus On Books


BOOK RECORDS RESEARCH

Cannell Library Book Catalog

Search Term(s) used: Internet

Citation information for one book: Ryan, Johnny, “A History of the Internet and the Digital Future”, London : Reaktion Books, 2010.

Subject Headings: Internet, Internet – History, Internet – Social aspects.

Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book? Circulating book – 246 pages

Location and Call Number for the Book: Cannell Library TK5105.875.I57 R73 2010

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? This book is trustworthy because it is in depth in length and gives an overview of historical relevance.

 Summit Catalog

Search Term(s) used: Internet History

Citation information for one book: Moschovitis, Christos J.P.; et al “History of the Internet : A Chronology, 1843 to The Present”, Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©1999.

Subject Headings: Internet -- Juvenile literature, Telecommunication -- History -- Juvenile literature, Internet Telecommunication – History, Communication and technology -- History.

Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book? Circulating book

Location and Call Number for the Book: Available at many locations by clicking on the link for your college. It is available at Clark College Cannell Library. TK5105.875.I57 H58 1999 

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? Again, I can trust the information provide in this book because it is in depth in length and gives an overview of historical relevance.

 Books 24x7 – IT Pro Collection of E-books

Search Term(s) used: Internet History

Citation information for one book: William Aspray and Paul E. Ceruzzi (eds) ,“The Internet and American Business”, The MIT Press © 2008.

Subject Headings: I could not find this.

Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book? Circulating Book 607pages.

Location and Call Number for the Book: I could not find this either but the ISBN# is ISBN:9780262012409 which is always helpful in locations at a retail book store.

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? Again, as a reference book, the information is verifiable and historical.

 Google Books

Search Term(s) used: Internet History

Citation information for one book: Wolinsky, Art., The History of the Internet and the World Wide Web”, Enslow Pub Incorporated, Sep 1, 2000.

Subject Headings: There wasn’t a “subject field” but here was a reference to another books such as, “Visual Communication: Images with Messages” by Paul Martin Lester

Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book? This is a circulating book with 64 pages.

 Location and Call Number for the Book: ISBN # 076601746X, 9780766017467

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? This book isn’t as lengthy as the others I found, but I can trust it for accurate research because of its historical information.

 SUMMARY OF BOOK RECORDS RESEARCH

I used keywords: Internet AND Who Started AND Who Invented in my Cannell Library research which resulted in “No Entries Found”. I added more words: Internet AND Who Started Internet AND Who Invented the Internet (caps for emphasis here, I did not type caps into my keyword search in Cannell Library). Again, “No Entries Found”. Hmmm…. nothing was working, so I simply entered “Internet’ and Bam! Over 40 pages of entries! I scrolled down until I found a title that fit what I was looking for and chose, “A history of the Internet and The Digital Future”. If I were to enter keywords again, I would choose “Internet AND History”. Perhaps my keywords were too specific.

When I moved on to Summit, the single keyword “Internet” gave me multiple entries so I thought I would narrow it down using “Internet History” from my research at the Cannell Library and that helped even more. The first entry was exactly what I was looking for.

“It-Pro” was a really exciting website to check out and one I was not aware of offered through Clark College. It gave you several options once you found the book of your choice such as breaking down the chapter contents, a back cover image and full table of contents were available. This site also prompted me with a citation link that was really user friendly and I could choose from several different formats. It appeared as I hovered over the author’s name. Here is the MLA format simply copy and pasted from the headings by this book:

Aspray, William, and Paul E. Ceruzzi (eds). The Internet and American Business. The MIT Press, © 2008. Books24x7. Web. Feb. 5, 2013. http://common.books24x7.com/toc.aspx?bookid=26537

How easy is that for English class! J

“Google Books” search engine gave the first two book titles that I had found in the Cannell Library and Summit as the first options I could choose from. I scrolled several pages before finding a title that was more specific to what I wanted to learn.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Marilyn:

    Nice work. A few things to consider for rating credibility. If you do a google search for the author and/or publisher, you get a bit more of a sense of their expertise or focus. We'll be covering how to construct useful search statements. These are more important for catalogs like Cannell's system because there is limited information that is searchable. For full text databases like IT Pro and GoogleBooks, you can use more natural language searching since it included the entire text and not just title, author, publisher, table of contents. It may appear that Google Book is easier but it's a reflection of the scope of the search.

    Thank you for your efforts,
    Andrea

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