A Midsummer Nights Dream Research Guide

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A Midsummer Nights Dream Research Guide
Print Ebooks Databases WebSites
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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 information and enter your User ID
  and password to access.
• You can also access the Ebooks in NetLibrary
  directly.

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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.

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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

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Examples of Google site searches
Examples of site Searches

• full moon lunacy sitediscovery.com

puck fairies legends siteedu
freud dreams siteharvard.edu
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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.
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What Happens When You Use a Search Engine?

• Lets See.

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Robots/Spiders index and store texts/images from
web pages for the database.
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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?

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How to Determine Who Put Up the Site?

• Search for an about file on the site.
• Search for a link to this person or companys
  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.

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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?

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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.
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Record Your Findings

• Cite All Sources (How? Its available on the MS
  Librarys Web Page.)
• Record what youve learned, using your own words
  and phrases.
• Do not Copy/Paste mindlessly.
• Do not Plagiarize.