Meeting Chris Nolan

On Tuesday, we got to meet Chris Nolan, the assistant University Librarian. He gave an informative lecture on internet browsing and search engines. Google, yahoo, Bing, askjeeves were all popular engines that students used, however, Nolan described that there is a deep, and invisible web that isn't full shown through these. They are mostly scholarly academic databases that have to be paid for. Nolan spoke about page rank, meaning the order that sites come up. The more people that click on a cite, generally means the more credible it is. But rewording, and using .org and .gov endings on the url are a very good starting block for searching for academic work. Nolan gave quick tips and hints like being able to search for a word, simply put define in front of it. The best advice he had was the website http://infomine.ucr.edu/, a very credible academic source site to start projects off with.