Time is a Precious Commodity!

Today’s topics were intellectual property and copyright. We learned what were appropriate items to use for research and not so credible items. We also had quest speakers about special libraries and academic libraries. I thought I would enjoy the special libraries presentation because I work in one. However, I really enjoyed the academic librarian perspective. It definitely gave me pause for thought. We learned more about electronic resources. This became VERY handy during my three and a half hours of research tonight. We also found out that the two and a half hours I spent last night on the searching assignment now won’t count because some people had problems. Whew, I was one of them. It is just frustrating when you spend that much time on something for it not to count. I do realize the point is to learn the material and not so much the end result. This is going to be a difficult transition for me to make because I am so results oriented. I did get to learn that one of the databases that I used to search tonight had an audio output component so that I could hear some of the abstracts and not use a reader. The problem was that they did not work or load consistently so it ended up to be a good thing that I had a reader.