Search engines becoming very important in our lives, our news, our education, and even politics are dependent upon the searchability of the subject we search for. As Dewey's, rigid structure of categories has its flaws because once the ingredients are mixed, you can't go back and undo what you already mixed in to the bowl. …
Class work: Search vs. Sort
To my understanding as we collect files on our computer, we are putting them in the folders, well, when we try to decide whether it is better to keep files miscellaneous and just search for the files, or of organize them into folders and sorting the files. Well, I think we could never have just …
Class work: Comparing PsycINFO and Google search engines
searching for "educational system in America" Google scholar: came back with the result of 3.2 mil. hits. CSA web: came up with 249 publications ---------------------------- Google: searched instead of "Find articles with all of the words" i used a different field to "Find articles with all of the words with the exact phrase" which narrowed …
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Class work: SEARCHING for MENDELEEV, WHERE ARE YOU? Part II
Search Griffin Catalog Clicked advanced search tab entered word <mendeleev> into the first tab under <Any Field:> In Limited to list I picked the following: Location: <ANY>; Material Type <ANY>; Language <English> the search result came back with three results: the descriptive data of the Highly relevant title entree is important to have in order to perform …
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Class work: SEARCHING for MENDELEEV, WHERE ARE YOU?
searching for: "Periodic Table of Elements" found a http://www.ptable.com site that shows an interactive table of elements which can be organized by properties, orbitals, and by isotopes. Properties of each element are displayed in a zoom window which makes it easy to see the difference between the elements, when jut hovering over the table. chose …
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