OPAC experience

1)      I chose the homeless people for my research project for this class. I narrowed it down to homeless people in mn.

2)      I’m going to be looking for information and specific stories on what got some of these people in these predicaments and more broad information as well.

3)      I was very successful finding not only a bunch of books on my topic, but some very good ones as well. There were definitely less than I believed there to be,  but were definitely enough search views to get me the information I need.

4)      I tried looking up an ebook, and used my step-moms I pad. I did get a lot of options for homeless people in mn but some seemed to be very broad. I liked the fact that I could read the book from her ipad, but I can’t say that I know how long I could sit and read off of it. I think I would like to actually have the book in my hand, to highlight and read from the book.

5)      Like I said above, I don’t know that I could read an ebook for a very long time. I would prefer the actual book before an ebook, my mind would begin to wonder on a computer or ipad.

6)      If I were to read the ebook I would definitely have to use my moms ipad or nook so that it was not such a tiny screen, like something as small as my iphone. I believe I would get side tracked and start doing other things if I had such technology in front of me though.

7)      When I searched books right away so many options came up, some not even that related to my topic. Like I had been reading in other peoples blogs as well, movies and such were popping up with my book search too, where are OPACS obviously is split up. I like the miller center and will stick to mostly that place for research for this class and later research for other classes as well.