Open URL

Of all the 10 things I've worked on, this this was the hardest one for me to grasp. Too bad the CommonCraft folks don't have an instructional video for Open URL. I did do the activity and found the following article on Google Scholar, Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario. When I changed the volume number and year using Citation Finder, it still gave me the same results but it had my altered information in the citation. I even changed the last name of the author and it gave me the same results. Interesting. I wish I could add some insightful comments on the subject, but I'm still trying to understand it.

Here's an Open URL for an article on helicopter parents.

Title:	The tethered generation
Source:	HRMagazine [1047-3149] Tyler yr:2007 vol:52 iss:5 pg:40

http://sfx.calstate.edu:9003/fullerton?&auinit=K&aulast=Tyler&atitle=The+tethered+generation&title=The+Personnel+administrator&volume=52&issue=5&date=2007&spage=40&issn=1047-3149&sid=libx

Wikis

A wiki would be quite useful for our cataloging section to access and share information and resources that we use in our day-to-day operations.

Wikipedia is a site that you can't ignore. It is one of the first places many users look because it often appears on the first page of a Google search. I think it has had both a positive and negative impact. On the plus side, articles are added quickly so its coverage of current events is extensive. Also, there are many topics in Wikipedia that other encyclopedias just don't cover. On the negative side, its sources are unreliable. It may be a good place to begin a search to get information on a topic before moving on to more reliable information sources.