We had out first proper group meeting. We discussed our plans for our assesment. I read chapters 3 and then some of chapter 4 from the text. I went to the james joyce libary and looked at the question we had to do. It was interesting because in class we had discussed the differences between brittanica and wikipedia namely being that brittanica was created by subject experts and for wikipedia anyone could write anything that they wanted. And now we were being asked to compare different ways of accessing infomation in the libary. We had to compare finding the book, using google books and then using world cat. After I did this question i found that there were some big differences between the three modes. Some ideas that came to my mind were:
• was extremely quick and easy to access the bibliography of bibliographies on both google books and world cat. finding the hard copy in the libary took a little longer
• world cat is very easy to use and it amazed me that it was able to show collections held around the globe.
• google books is like worldcat in that it allows us to locate books but what put me off it a bit was that in the book 'information pathways' a piece was written about how copyright issues were connected with scanning and putting up the whole of the book. This is very unlike world cat. Then again, it is handy...
I thought about the different problem solving techniques we had learnt about such as abstraction, brainstorming, hypothesis testing, research, lateral thinking and trial and error and how I could use these ideas along with other means to give the best answer possible. It was a good challenge.
Further reading i did and found of use:
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