Library research - Assignment Example

The most video that I watched that I found most instructive is the instruction about how to find books. The presentation was simple and clear and I like the “rawness” of the voice over which sounds like a student like who I can relate when I am doing a research. It told me to go to home page, click the catalogue box, enter book title and drop down box and everything follows easy.The video that I found least instructive is the instruction about how to begin a research. I do not know if the administrator of the site knows about it but the link to youtube has been removed by the user!

(check this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w5nMXB828Q&feature=plcp).After watching several powerpoint presentation and videos I now have a better idea how to do a research using the website despite the unavailability of the instruction video on how to begin a research. It is just unclear to me if there are soft copies of the book where I can access through my computer and download it because the instructional video just tells how to locate the book. I believe this is important because it makes research more efficient that would enable us to dig more reading materials at a lesser amount of time.

My top three videos viewed are “Overview of Mason Libraries” because it provides me an idea how the online and physical library interacts,  “Find a Book video” because it instructs me how to locate the book that I need in the maze of our library and “Find the Full-text of Google Scholar Articles” because it makes easier how to understand a book.  In general, the website had been helpful in orienting me how to do a research and I believe that I am now more prepared to do research.