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[stormdog]

I made a video for Class. I needed to create a brief (three minute) instructional tool that might be used in an academic library. (I ran over, but only by a minute

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[restoman]

Well Done!

Your presentation is clear and concise. It is also clearly your own work, not just rehashed from a user's guide.

I'll give you an A+.

;-)

[stormdog]

Thanks very much professor! :)

Glad you liked it!

[basefinder]

Nicely done!

I used GS frequently during my MA adventure a few years ago. Aside from finding documents, I also used it to see how other people had written footnotes and bibliography citations for obscure sources.

To this day, if I stub my toe or spill something, my go-to curse word is "TURABIAN!"

[stormdog]

So I hear you have just a little bit of a grudge, maybe, against Turabian citation?

Personally, I like the style that most history texsts use with footnotes (sometimes lengthy ones) and (of course) a bibliography at the back. I don't know why people don't like footnotes: I like to read them as I go without having to flip back and forth all the time.

Thanks for the compliment! I'm glad you liked the video.

[reikimaster]

Is that your voice? very nicely done! I didn't know this existed and it makes me feel so old.....back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth in teh 1990's and I was working on my Master's I would have loved this! I spent hours going thru the cards in teh dewey decimal system library cards - looking up a subject and hauling a gazillion books over to a table to see which ones were applicable

[stormdog]

Yup, that's me! I think working in phone tech support for a few years helped me develop a professional voice and pacing. It's really hard to hear people over the phone sometimes. I can still recite the spiel I had to answer the phone with when I worked phone support for Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.

I seem to be of the age group that used card catalogs in elementary school and at public libraries as a kid, just as they were being phased out. I know libraries now are using machines running Windows or Mac and catalogs are just browser accessed (I mean I'm in library school, so I'd better know how they work now!), but I still think of card catalogs or those monochrome green text-only terminals when I think of browsing a library catalog on-site...

[reikimaster]

do libraries still have micro-fische (can't spell it)

[stormdog]

There are a lot of collections in microfiche, yes. Microfilm is probably more common, but other than one being cards and one being rolls, they're the same thing