Thursday, February 2, 2012

3.4 Explore the Hunt Library


After exploring the Hunt Library I was thoroughly impressed with how easy it was to access all different kinds of information. This was my first time exploring the library and I was able to maneuver through it with ease. I discovered I can search any topic I want and the information will populate just like the site Google except this information is narrowed down to information based on facts backed by researched. When I searched leadership in the Hunt Library for instance multiple links pulled up on all kinds of different leadership topics. The links were all labeled and broken down into different categories such as articles, books etc.

When I search leadership in Google I was bombarded with all things involving leadership and or anything with the word leadership within the body of information. The information was not categorized nicely like in the Hunt Library, some of the information was outdated and some of the information was just advertisement from companies trying to get people to buy their product or attend their seminars on becoming a good leader.

The main difference between the two resources would be the Hunt Library is a scholarly resource, meaning I can trust that the information will be up-to-date and accurate, however with Google the information can be hit or miss. With Google I do not know if the references provided are valid or trustworthy and with Hunt Library I do.  I definitely will use the Hunt Library in all of my future research.

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