Unit 6

Search Terms Used: Internet

Brockman, John. Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future. New York: Harper Perennial, 2011.

Subject Headings: Internet - Social aspects

Circulating Book

Call Number: TK5105.875.I57 I8 2011

I believe this book is credible due to a couple things. Every year they post a new question to be answered by scientist, historians, philosophers, etc... For this particular book the question was "How is the Internet changing the way you think?" It's not being answered by just an average joe in other words, I'm sure that there is also input by anyone from anywhere, but the goal is to get input from credible sources. Also, it was published in New York, and was published very recently, in 2011. It included input from over 170 essayists. 

SUMMIT RESEARCH

Search Terms Used: Internet Society

Slevin, James. The Internet and Society. Malden, MA: Polity, 2000.

Related Subjects: Internet -- Social aspects, Computers and Civilization, Information society, Internet -- aspect social.

I believe this book is credible because it is fairly recent, and there are multiple reviews on the book. One of the reviews it an editorial review and it explains how sophisticated, well informed, and well based from a previous scholarship.

One of the biggest differences I noticed between the library catalog and the summit catalog was the number of results that showed up with the same search. Of course, summit had a lot more because it searches a number of WA and OR libraries. Other than that, they both came up with a lot of relevant books, and had a lot of information in regards to the summary, publishing, author, etc...

IT PRO

With IT Pro, you can narrow your results down to basically exactly what you're looking for. It gives you three separate areas you can type in keywords for what you're searching for, and from there you can choose if you want it to contain all words, any words, exact phrase, etc...
Google Books

Search Terms Used: Internet Society

Bakardjieva, Maria. Internet Society: The Internet In Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publication, 2005.

I believe it is trustworthy because Google lets you preview a certain amount of pages of the book. It lets you basically sample it, and you can read about the summary, publication, author, etc...

SUMMARY

I learned that there are numerous credible databases that are available to me. They are all similar, have similar results, and are easy to use, but they all have different ways of letting you view the book.  Also, each had their own ways that you could narrow down your search. Some searched a lot of databases while Clark's Library, for example, let you search their particular library only. So if you wanted local information, or global, you can find it with many different research databases, for free!