A500.3.4.RB_LarsonKurt, Explore the Hunt Library

A500.3.4.RB_LarsonKurt, Explore the Hunt Library

As you explore the Hunt Library, reflect on how you might use the Library as a resource for your studies.

How is the scholarly information you found in the library different from the typical information you find when you Google a leadership concept?

I have utilized the Jack R. Hunt Library for both Undergraduate and Graduate research work. In the beginning I found it to be a bit cumbersome and difficult to extract books, articles, videos or research help. Several courses during my Undergraduate work I was required to seek and borrow several periodicals from the library via mail and return them after word. I must admit that in this world of the Internet and virtually instantaneous search engines available, I thought this an archaic method of obtaining information for a research paper? However after completing the task, I must admit that it was a rather enjoyable way of obtaining information, reminding me of my High School years and earlier much before the Internet.

The most readily available and usable search engine in the Library is EAGLE search.  EAGLE search is an excellent dedicated and creditable search engine, for use by ERAU students and above all… it is free, or at least rolled into tuition costs, so, one might as well utilize all the benefits the University has to offer.

As an example, typing in the search block “Organizational Leadership” returns 313,418 ProQuest results with access to the abstract, full on-line text, citations, email, print, save to my research and see similar document features that have been developed and deployed with the student and facility in mind, for proper and seamless researching of a multitude of topics.

Consequently search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing as example, are powerful and detail oriented but lack certain clarity of the quality and amount of possibilities they deliver. As an example, I typed in “Organizational Leadership” into Google and was returned with 8,990,000 possible choices in about 0.59 seconds. A lot of sensory overload and too many choices to even consider… including the notoriously inaccurate Wikipedia, which has seemed to get its claws into all topics these days both great and small.

There are many fine University’s listed out there in cyberspace from which you could choose to do your research, like Purdue University’s OWL, which is second to none when it comes to accurate and trustworthy research paper information and formatting. 

Plus many pay for information and data sites, however, how does one really know the accuracy and content of those sites.

The Jack R. Hunt Library contains a multitude of topics from which any student would be able to do effective and accurate research plus the ability to cite the work accurately and with the minimalists of difficulty.