Today's lecture was about online libraries and databases. The first topic Justine talked about was why use online libraries and gave us lots of reasons as to why we should. The next topic was the types of online libraries. Justine then went on to give us some examples of online resources we could use. She then talked about limitations of online libraries and also referencing online libraries. The topic after that was copy right issues and Justine explained to us about the copy right issues with online libraries. Justine then started talking about online databases; what they were and the types of online databases there are. She then went on to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using online databases. To finish off the lecture she summarised online databases and libraries into a few points.
Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.
1. From today I learnt what online Libraries and Databases were.
2. I learn about some different types of them and some examples of website of them as well.
3. Another thing I have learnt today is how to reference online Libraries and Databases.
4. I learnt today how to use the library website better than what I did and learnt about the functions it can do.
5. The last thing I learnt today is
Tutorial
In today's tutorial we had to go to the library website and make a list of ten useful functions.
Here is my list of ten useful functions:
1. "Information resources" - The subheadings allows you enter into lots of other functions within this function.
1. "Information resources" - The subheadings allows you enter into lots of other functions within this function.
2. "Information for Students" - This link allows you to chose from many options on what information you need, even if it's about the library trading hours or external library services.
3. "Resources For" - Some of the subheadings are Students, Researches, Academic Staff, External/offshore Students, Community and Alumni.
4. "Services" - Some services are Multimedia Services, Document Delivery and Loans Services.
5. "ECU Reference Guide" - This link to the referencing guide allows you to access on the net the reference guide and gives information how to write an appropriate guide.
6. "Learning Assistance" - This heading also has subheadings which include Liberty: Learning to Find Information and the ECU Referencing Guide.
7. "Search the Catalogue" - This link lets you to enter either the author, title, publication details or even the lecturer and it will search the database for you.
8. "Information About" - This has the subheading ECU Library which gives students with information about the facilities at the ECU Library.
9. "Online database" - This link allows you to search journal articles on the net through the University database.
10. "Loan Services" - This link tells you everything you need to know about how to borrow from the ECU library.
The next thing we were asked to do was visit the MEDline website and look up a topic and then explain why people would use this service and what they would get out of it.
Here are my answer:
I feel people would use this service as a source of information about a condition they have or think the have. Also about what kind of drug they are using and what is in them and the effects of the drug on them if any. What they would get out the the service would be information about anything they want to know about.
Here is a screen shot of the website:
That's all for this week. See next week for more.
Brittany
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