Create a blog posting discussing the following questions and other observations you have about NetLibrary. All resources can be accessed via this alphabetical list.
1. Do a search for a topic that interests you. Note the default search is "full text." You may want to change the search to keyword. Review your findings and observations.
I searched "Hamlet." Right away, I could see that by not searching the "Tragedy of Hamlet," I came up with all sources that even mention Hamlet--and may or may not be Shakepeare's Hamlet. I looked through the book entitled Hamlet. It was a literary criticism of the character. I zeroed in on Samuel Johnson's notes. I had had a college professor who loved Samuel Johnson for his sarcasm. When I was in college, I could not experience the sarcasm in the same way he did. It was great fun to read this as an old person. I loved the sarcasm. This, of course, is a lesson in how experience affects how we read and see everything. So what a great reminder, once again, that my students will not have the same view I do.
Great comments about NetLibrary. The default search in NetLibrary is full-text, so if you used that, you ended up with a lot of results. Changing the search to title and searching for Hamlet gives 5 results--much more manageable!
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of literary criticism titles in NetLibrary--Blooms Notes, Cliffs Notes and more--which can be really useful.
-julie
Your comments about life experience are excellent, Shari! Yes, we must remember that what is old hat to us is new to students. You have described how to search --keep tuning and tweaking until you get what you want. Thanks for commenting.
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