Topic:Does the expansion of ebook options impact how much people read?
First I typed the search statement into Google,I got no relevant results.Then I went to advanced search and put the search statement into the exact phrase and changed terms appearing in the title of the page and still nothing.I went to Clark college's sources to see if I could get better results.I first went to Proquest and typed in the search statement and got no results,then I changed all fields of text option into document title and still got no results.I went to EBSOhost and typed in the keyword search box the same statement and still no results,I tried to break down the search statement using Boolean phrases and tips and still haven't found anything.Went to GALE virtual reference library and did the same thing and still nothing.I've tried breaking down the search statements to a few different types of search statements and I've gone down the list of Clark's articles and database page and still no luck.I've got to say at this point in the assignment,things are starting to get frustrating.So by this time I'm starting to just kind of "wing" it,but then I realized what my problems was,I was looking for an article with the title of the topic or maybe looking for "too much" relevance.So I changed the search statement to expand* AND ebook AND reading and typed into EBSCOhost and only got 31 results but the first result seemed to be the most relevant find I could come up with.
Title:PATRON-DRIVEN EBOOK ACQUISITION.
Author:Breitbach,William and Lambert,Joy E
- Source:Computers in Libraries; Jul2011, Vol. 31 Issue 6, p17-20, 4p, 2 Charts
- Subject Terms:
- *ELECTRONIC publications
*ACQUISITION of property
*METHODOLOGY
*ACADEMIC libraries - *READING
- Database:Academic search Premier
- ASPECT FOR PATRON-DRIVEN EBOOK ACQUISITION.
- A:More than Author with credible sources so I assume there's authority here.
- S:Sourced from computers in libraries
- P:Investigate and conduct trials with various ebook vendors
- E:Clearly showing nothing but facts with no dilution of opinions at all
- C:Evaluation results along with chart data so its covered pretty wide
- T:Published in 2011 so it's pretty recent
- So once I found a result with my new working modified search statement,I decided to give Google another try.I found alot of results but a lot of was just stuff that has nothing to do with the topic so I decided to change the search statement once again to expansion of ebooks AND how much people read,and to tell you the truth I didn't think I would find anything with that but I did,so yay.
- Title: The rise of e-reading
- Author: Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden and Joanna Brenner
- Source:Pew Internet & American Life Project
- URL: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise-of-e-reading/
- ASPECT FOR THE RISE OF E-READING
- A:Has 5 Authors so its pretty well credible
- S:No sources listed but the study was done at the Pew Research Center
- P:Find out if people prefer e-books over regular books
- E:Showing very little opinion and very outweighed by facts
- C:Shows lots of supporting evidence from chart data to survey data to statistical data
- T:Published in 2012 so very recent
- This assignment at first was annoying because I spent most of the time looking for a specific article instead of looking at any of the articles,I guess I would say I was a little confused at first but after a half an hour of searching through databases and Google pages I found at what to do.The Boolean phrases and tips really helped me on this one,I don't think I would of found an article without one.
- Now about the articles.I think both articles are very credible and are worth trusting.They both show supporting data,one with evaluation results and transaction data while one shows a little more supporting evidence with chart data,survey data,statistical data and interview data with peers or random people.One article was done at a state university while the other one was done a research center so both of the author(s) had plenty of resources and funds to come out with this data and show their results.Both articles are peer-reviewed and are done by people who experts in this field and from what I've read I would say these guys know what they're talking about but it seems the article(the rise of e-reading)showed a lot more supporting evidence then the other one and since that's the rise of e-reading was done at a research center I'm assuming they had more funds and resources than the state university.So I'm not sure if we are supposed to side with an article over the other,but if we had to I'd picked the rise of e-reading one because it has more authors than the other which means its more credible and its been reviewed by peers more,and it shows a lot more supporting data and evidence.
