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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Research Guide

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Research Guide. Print Ebooks Databases WebSites. Print Materials and Ebooks. Locate the WebSite for this assignment Use WebCat to Locate Library Materials Utilize Various Field Buttons to best suit your need

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Research Guide

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  1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Research Guide Print Ebooks Databases WebSites

  2. Print Materials and Ebooks • Locate the WebSite for this assignment • Use WebCat to Locate Library Materials • Utilize Various Field Buttons to best suit your need • When the Call # is EBOOK, you need to click An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for informationand enter your User ID and password to access. • You can also access the Ebooks in NetLibrary directly.

  3. Databases Databases • Britannica Online • Biography Resource Center • Gale Literary Resource Center (at NYPL)(You will need an NYPL card and user barcode number to use this database.) Each one has its own layout and search strategies to follow. Always read the Help or Search Tips file.

  4. Search Web Sites for Text and Images Using Google • Use unique key words and key phrases • Use simplified Boolean operators, OR, -, and “ ” • Use unique and not general words and phrases. • Combine concepts to narrow your results. • Use synonyms and related words. • Use “site:” operator to focus search results

  5. “full moon” lunacy site:discovery.com Examples of Google “site:” searches Examples of “site:” Searches puck fairies legends site:edu freud dreams site:harvard.edu

  6. Domain Extensions andWhat They Mean .com, .info, .tv, .ws, .biz, .name, etc. -- companies, commercial sites, individual sites. Anyone can register these domains. .org -- originally reserved for nonprofit organizations – however, anyone can pay and register a .org site. .gov -- government agencies .edu -- usually reserved for higher education institutions – colleges and universities. It is used by some high schools.

  7. What Happens When You Use a Search Engine? Let’s See….

  8. You are Here. Conducting web-searches via Google. 3 – 6 months of delay in indexing and updating Google’sDatabase Robots (“spiders”) cannot judge contexts or evaluate validity. Web Pages Indexed The Web Web PagesIndexed Web Pages Indexed Web PagesIndexed Web PagesIndexed Web Pages Indexed Web PagesIndexed Robots/Spiders index and store texts/images from web pages for the database.

  9. Evaluating Websites Always ask these two questions: • Who / What organization produced the site, wrote the text, and provided the images? • Why did they create the site?

  10. How to Determine Who Put Up the Site? • Search for an “about” file on the site. • Search for a link to this person or company’s background on the site. • Reducing the URL (web address) to reveal the “identity” of the person or company. • Search elsewhere to find out more about the person or the organization. • Remember: If the producer of the site is proud and sure of the validity of the information provided, he/she/they will not hide their identities from the users.

  11. Why Does the Site Exist? It is important to figure out what the person/company’ intentions are – to educate, to persuade, to sell, or to entertain?

  12. What If No Evidence of Reliability Can be Found? DO NOT USE THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE. DO NOT USE THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE. DO NOT USE THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE. DO NOT USE THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE. DO NOT USE THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE.

  13. Record Your Findings • Cite All Sources (How? It’s available on the MS Library’s Web Page.) • Record what you’ve learned, using your own words and phrases. • Do not Copy/Paste mindlessly. • Do not Plagiarize.

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