Thursday, January 29, 2009

WEEK 3

As I began week three I was behind in my work. I worked hard to try and get ahead on my work.

The assignment, organizing information, was easy. I just used the collection I already had and how I organized it. I read other peoples ideas and how they did it and it gave me some ideas on how I could change and improve some of my other collections.

Library catalogs was not as interesting to me. I went to the Big Bend Community College to use the computers there. I searched their library catalog and North Central Regional Library. The Big Bend one was a little easier to use, but it was probably because I had been on it before. Going onto the North central regional library gave me access to other places to search.

For the library visit I used the same library at Big Bend. As I searched around the library I learned more than I had before. Also I got to know more about the way things ran inside I library. I liked that they had study rooms available for anyone to use.

For the databases assignment I used the Big Bend library catalog and Pro Quest. I liked the way that you could navigate pro quest from the page, but once again Big Bend site was easy because I had been there before. I did learn how to use pro quest which I had never used before.

This week was interesting. I learned more than I thought I would this week. I thought that this class wasn't going to be real great, but I'm actually starting to learn things I probably never would have.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Week two

When it came to choosing my topic I found out more stuff on complications and health problems that you can have as an obese child. For that assignment I used Britannica Online. I found out that if you put childhood obesity it works better that if you just put obestiy. Obesity brings up too many articles about adults.
Going out to a library wasnt so hard except for that fact that Im shy in person so it was difficult to get my nerve up but after I did I learned a lot about the library.
This week wasn't too hard. I got a little thrown off by the holiday and then my computer crashing but it cant get anything but better from here on out. My timing was really bad this week but Im working on it. Im looking forward to what next week has to offer.