For todays free post I thought I would talk a little about how I did some exploring on the online library resource. Last week, instead of meeting in the usual spot for my WRA 150 class, we went to the library and got a lesson on how great of a resource the library can be, the physical building and online. I am very glad that we learned about this resource because it gives great access to very reliable sources. It is also really easy to use. You just choose they type of resource you want to find, a book, or scholarly article or journal, and then put in a few key words of the kind of things you would like to get information on. Another really cool aspect of using the online library resource is that they have the citations right there, so you don't have to formulate those on your own ( the worst part of any research project!).
Just to test this resource and how easy it is, I went online to the MSU library, decided that I wanted to find some articles with information on the field and events of marine mammal zoology. So I put in my information and I automatically got over 190,000 results! If I had been looking for any information in particular I would have had to search through the titles for a little before I got what I wanted, but because I was just doing an experiment, I just looked at the first few. They were all interesting articles about programs with marine mammals that might be good information for future posts!!! I hope to be able to use this process again with future posts and even other assignments because it is so easy and convenient to use, and hopefully I will be able to learn even more about it as I go to make it even easier to use!
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