Once again the book that should put me to sleep is just enlightening me so much. I guess in the past work I have done it has been easy to find information that I have needed on the Internet or else I have just been doing rotten research, which is possible. I was very surprised at how much could be missed by just doing a general browse on an on-line catalog. I have found myself doing a focused browse in the book stacks but I really did not know that was what I was doing, I was just looking. The advantages of book stack browsing when you have a focused browse seem to far out weigh the disadvantages of just having to physically go to the library to find what you are looking for.
I really like that Mann has included information on different search engines for journals. In his inclusion of these items he lets us know what the advantages and disadvantages to each is. He also makes it clear that we have to be careful with our subject heading searches, because not every database is going to include the same subject headings.
I am learning a lot from this book, not only resources but I am really learning a lot about how to research.
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