Library Basics Quiz

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Library Basics Quiz

Answer the following questions after watching this video:

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Who is your COMM 101 professor? *

Open a new tab or window in your web browser and go to the library's website at http://library.prairiestate.edu. Type the word cat into the OneSearch search box and click on the "Search" icon. How many results do you get? *

5 points

Around 1,000,000

Around 9,600,000

Around 170

Around 11,500,000

Now type: cat training, in the search box at the top of the results page and click the “Search” icon. How many results do you get now? *

5 points

Around 950,000

Around 1,300,000

Around 5

Around 141,000

Open a new tab or window in your web browser and go to Google. Search for cat. How many results do you get? *

5 points

Around 1,000,000

Around 1,000,000,000

Around 300,000,000

Around 9,620,000,000

Now type cat training. How many results do you get? *

5 points

Around 350,000,000

Around 100,000,000

Around 3,20,000,000

Around 1,000,000,000

Why did the number of results change in Google and the library search when you added more keywords? *

5 points

There were more results in the second search because the search was more specific.

There were around the same number of results because the searches weren't that different.

There were fewer results in the second search because not as many items matched all the keywords.

There were fewer results in the second search because the results were more scholarly.

Which search engine gives you better results if you want practical advice about how to train your cat?
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5 points

Google

Library Search (OneSearch)

Which search engine gives you better results if you want to know about the effectiveness of different training methods?
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5 points

Google

Library Search (OneSearch)

Close your OneSearch browser tab or window and go back to the library website. Enter "

Assessment of Clicker Training for Shelter Cats

", including the quotation mark, in the search box and click the search icon. Then click on the title. What is the "source" of this article (the publication in which it appears)?

5 points

Lori Kogan

Academic Search Complete

Assessment of Clicker Training for Shelter Cats

Animals

What is an abstract? *

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A kind of summary of the article

A description of the most general concepts and ideas that authors are using

An old device used to count and calculate

Click on the PDF Full Text link on the left. Once the article has loaded, scroll down to the section labeled "Conclusion," and read it. What did the authors find? *

Choose the best answer

5 points

Trained cats were less likely to hide from owners before a vet visit

Cats can be effectively clicker trained to perform a variety of tasks in a relatively short period in a shelter environment.

Injuries to vet staff were not as pronounced over a six month time frame

Trained cats were less likely to strike out at other cats in frustration

This image shows how the search should look for the next question, with "cat training" in quotation marks.

Scroll down the page until you see "Filter by Format," then click Show More. Once you have clicked that, click on the checkboxes for Magazines, then click Update.

What happened after you did that? *

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It eliminated results that were about a different subject

Results that are not a magazine article were eliminated

Results in other languages were eliminated

Did this make the search results look more like what you were seeing on Google?
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5 points

Yes

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