Library

 What I learned about the library (new stuff)

(picture from Pinterest) 

    I learned to remember the url: “library.noctrl.edu”. It’s the homebase of research, where students can find articles they need for either their psychology class, science, english, and other classes. I honestly didn’t learn anything new, everything in that computer lab room in the library was all familiar to me. 

The first time I used NCC’s library was for my general psychology (or Psychology: Sci of Behavior 100) class for my group’s project. My professor linked a slidedeck of detailed instructions on canvas so anyone can find our sources at the library.noctrl.edu. It led me to another place to find specifically psychology and my group’s topic. However, I still explored the library.noctrl.edu a bit. Then when I came into today’s library computer room to find out that I’ll be learning about how to use NCC’s library database– it turns out that I have already used it. I may not have known other filters there– but I was able to find it pretty quickly and add filters to my searched topic (on a google doc). 

In the computer lab lesson on credibility, they handed out a worksheet. The worksheet was a good review on learning how to look at an article and find out whether it’s credible or not. It must achieve the following in order for the article/book/etc to be creditable: who, what, where, why, and how. On the y-axis there’s more academic at the top and less academic on the bottom. On the x-axis left is the library and right is the internet. Then there’s what type of resource it is in the middle. Basically it’s a visual of resource types of how credible or not an article is. On the other side of the worksheet– there’s cardinal search practice– and I was off on my own looking for articles for my rational argument essay. I also already learned how to find credible sources in middle/high school. I think my high school also used the same method (the 5 criteria: who, what, where, why and how) to know if an article is credible or not.