Students from St John's School came to the library

Four students from St John's School visited us with their teachers to look for information on specific topics related to literature and movies. But the main purpose of the visit was to learn how to find books on the catalog and then on the shelves: the topics were and excuse to know the library (it was their first time here). They also searched on elibraryUSA for digital articles and emailed them to their own accounts.

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Big6: Location and Access

Don´t miss this video if you'd like to improve your internet searching skills.

Four NETS for Better Searching

 

The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and to you it's beautiful and unattainable like a faraway star. If only you had a super-sized net for capturing it! 

Most people use a search engine by simply typing a few words into the query box and then scrolling through whatever comes up. Sometimes their choice of words ends up narrowing the search unduly and causing them not to find what they're looking for. More often the end result of the search is a haystack of off-target web pages that must be combed through. You can do better than that, and that's what this page is about.
The most comprehensive engine out there at the moment seems to be Google, and that's what we'll focus on here. The first step in becoming a facile catcher of web pages is to master Google's Advanced Search form located at http://www.google.com/advanced_search. Bookmark it! Drag the bookmark to your browser's toolbar so that it's always available. 

If you make a habit of using the four techniques described below, you'll be a much better searcher than 90% of all web-users. It's just four things, and each will provide you with a better net for information catching. Read more.


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Four NETS for Better Searching 
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

RSS in Plain English

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

Watch a short explanation of RSS to understand how it helps you save time reading the web.