Welcome back!
Unfortunately friends, today’s post won’t be quite as
interesting as the last few. However if you’re a student at University it does
have an important message for you so please read on!
The task for this week was for myself and the other students
of New Comms Tech to familiarise ourselves with the Uni’s online library catalogue
system. The Uni catalogue system is actually quite user friendly. You can easily
punch in a key word or phrase and hit search which in turn will present
newspaper articles, eBooks/books, journal articles, etc. You can limit what
kind of result you’re looking for i.e. just a journal article, and you can search
in more depth such as using exact phrases and authors.
I encourage every student use some form of database rather
than use the internet to research for an assignment. You might be asking ‘Why
Tom? Why should we do these things?’ Well people of the internet allow me to
tell you. When you research something on the web you all undoubtedly go straight
to Google and type in the subject and search away. The only issue with that is
that Google merely just searches the web for pages that contain some link to
the title. It’s not a bad thing of course but you are missing out on loads of
other content such as the journal articles, books (remember those?), and other
academic forms of information. By using these catalogues you are exposing yourself
to so much more content. Not to mention you’ll feel like a super smart academic
type if you do use them. So it’s a win win!
Anyway, we were given tasks on who and what to search for in
the Griffith library catalogue. So the questions and responses are as followed...
Which of Stephen Stockwell's (my lecturer) books are in the Griffith
library?
Stockwell, S 2005, Political Campaign Strategy: doing democracy in the 21st century, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.
Scott, P & Stockwell, S 2000, All-media guide to fair and cross-cultural reporting, for journalists, program markers and media students, Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Nathan.
Cite three academic books that might provide useful material for an
essay about Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville. On which campuses do they
reside?
Brody, R 2008, Everything is Cinema: The working life of Jean Luc Godard, Metropolitan Books, New York. (Nathan Campus)
Dixon, W 1997, The films of Jean Luc Godard, State University of New York Press, Albany. (Gold Coast campus)
Meehan, P 2008, Tech-noir: the fusion of science fiction and film noir, McFarland, Jefferson, N.C. (South Bank campus)
What is a book that will assist you to find out about possible research
methods to explore social media?
Poynter, R 2010, The handbook of online and
social media research: tools and techniques for market researchers, Wiley,
New York.
So there you have it readers! Another week, another
important lesson learned not only by me, but by you too. Until next time…
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