Google - Search Assignment

Submitted by

Hanem A. Ibrahim

ILS 504- Fall 2009

Dr. Elsie Okobi

Date of submission

October 7, 2009
After reviewing all the links provided in unit 5, which included information
about Google searching, I tried to follow the instructor’s guide to search
for answers to these 8 questions.

A- Using Google search for book by title ( pick any title).

1- I picked a book titled “The Swiss Robinson family “to search for it in Google

book , I went to http://books.google.com , I did the simple search first I

received 24,661 hits for that title.

2- I did it once again but used the advanced book search , I limited the search to the exact
phrase, “The Swiss Robinson family”, in English language , and also limited the results
to return books with the title in quote”” , The Swiss Robinson family, then I received
only 2 titles as a result to my search. They are what I want:
The Swiss family Robinson/ By Johann David Wyss, Geraldine Edith Mitton, J.B.
Lippincott Company, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1914
http://books.google.com/books?
as_q=&num=10&lr=&as_brr=3&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=The+Swiss+Robinson+
family&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&lr=lang_en&as_vt=The+Swiss
+Robinson+family&as_auth=&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_m
iny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_isbn=&as_issn=
This is the results :

The Swiss family Robinson: or, Adventures of a shipwrecked family on a ... - Page 5
̈ -
by Johann David Wyss, Johann Rudolf Wyss, William Henry Davenport Adams, Elise Volart
Family & Relationships - 1890 - 690 pages

Live Stock.. Unsociable Swine.. Wanted, the Companionship of Man.. The Personnel
of the Swiss Robinson Family.. A Bitter Cry.. Lost and Found again. ...

Full view - About this book - Add to my library - More editions

The Swiss family Robinson: or, Adventures of a shipwrecked family on a ... - Page ix
by Johann David Wyss, Johann Rudolf Wyss, Elise Voïart - Fiction - 1871 - 690 pages

... of the Swiss Robinson Family.. A Bitter Cry.. Lost and Found again..
Frederick's Narrative.. Skirting the Coast.. A Natural Arch.. ...

Full view - About this book - Add to my library - More editions

A- Learn more about the book , identify the library from which you can
borrow the book.
 1- I searched for the same title using the same search I did before with

advanced Google book search but this time to learn more about that book ,

so I click on one of the results for that title, I found at the right hand side of

Google book search four tabs to choose from whatever I want to search

about that title the four tabs are: ( Overview , Read, Review , Buy ) so I

click on overview, from this URL: http://books.google.com/books?

id=XJXRAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22The+Swiss+Robinson+family

%22+intitle:The+intitle:Swiss+intitle:Robinson+intitle:family&lr=lang_en&a

s_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as

_brr=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s

I found more Google’s information about that book included the title,

publishing information, contents , edition, and images of the front cover for

these edition :

Title The Swiss family Robinson: or, Adventures of a shipwrecked family on a desolate island. A
new and unabridged translation. With an introduction from the French of Charles Nodier ...

Authors ̈
Johann David Wyss, Johann Rudolf Wyss, William Henry Davenport Adams, Elise Volart

Translated
William Henry Davenport Adams
by

Publisher T. Nelson and sons, 1890

Original
the University of Michigan
from

Digitized Feb 19, 2009

Length 690 pages

Subjects

2- To know from which library I can borrow that book, I click on “Find in a
library” Tab which located at the bottom of the same web page I received
for the same site on google book search , then it referred me to worldCat
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28627290 where there are bibliographical
information about the book I clicked on the link “ Find a copy in the library“
 There I searched for the closest library to Shelton CT, which is Bridgeport
library, it is 9 miles away from Shelton, the first 6 results were Displaying
libraries 1-6 out of 2902 libraries that have a copy of all 329 editions of that
title.
A- Look for the full-text of any book and information on where to buy the
book
1- To search for a full text of the same title I click on “Read” from the four Tabs founded at
the same site of Google book search, http://books.google.com/books?
id=XJXRAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&
f=false I can read that book or downloaded. We can read any edition of any book only if
Google has a full text of it.
2- If I want to buy any copy available for sale from that title I’ll click on “ Buy” from that
Tabs. For this title I chose there is no available copy for sale , I tried another title “ The
Arabian Nights” I received 12,782 hits, I chose one of them and click “ Buy” I got all
the information I need to buy a copy from that URL : http://books.google.com/books?
id=e1mu8uHn-
I4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+arabian+nights#v=onepage&q=&f=false
And that is an example of that information
Seller Price Seller rating

Amazon.com $11.53 4018

ratings

Barnes&Noble. No
price No rating
com

No
Borders price No rating

No
Books-A-Million price No rating

A- Find Scholarly publications using Google Scholar, provide the full

bibliographic citation for any scholarly article on Public Libraries
1- From Google scholar at : http://scholar.google.com I searched for scholarly
publication on “public libraries”, I did the simple search first to see if I’ll get any
results, I received 2,440,000. hits, I thought I had to use the advanced scholarly
search to narrow these results, by using the available limitation tools in Google, I
used the exact phrase in quotes “public libraries” and I chose to get the results
only from “where my words occur” in the title of the article not from anywhere
in the article” in the subject area of social science and humanities, from the
1980s, then I received 3,600 hits, the results has books and citation, abstracts
and articles. This is the URL for that search : http://scholar.google.com/scholar?
as_q=&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=public+libraries&as_oq=&as_e
q=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=1980&as_yhi=&as_all
subj=some&as_subj=soc&hl=en
2- From the first page of results I found that citation that led me to the article cited
at Buley library at SCSU
[CITATION] Why Public Libraries?

- Full-Text @ Buley Library

M Getz - Public Library Quarterly, 1990
Cited by 51 - Related articles - All 2 versions

3- From the Buley library available in this URL ,

http://sy3kp5cd5d.scholar.serialssolutions.com/?
sid=google&auinit=M&aulast=Getz&atitle=Why+Public+Libraries
%3F&id=doi:10.1300/J118v10n03_03&title=Public+library+quarterly+
(New+York,+N.Y.)&volume=10&issue=3&date=1990&spage=5&issn=0161-
6846 I found information about that article and I found information showing
some search criteria to get the available articles on “public libraries” at The
Buley library. One of them about this article:
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A- Using
or Google Images locate a picture of Chukky Okobi
tm
Ser 1- I went to Google images at http://images.google.com, then searched for
ials “Chukky Okobi” I received 3,340 images that belongs to that name, I think
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lec one of them is Chukky Okobi the NFL player, all pictures could be retrieved
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hl=en&ei=hSrMStuwLs7clAeznYXMBQ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result
&cd=1&q=Chukky+Okobi&spell=1&start=0
2- These are some of these pictures
A- Using Google, locate a website sponsored by a university or college
that offers information about Asperger's Syndrome.
1- I searched for Asperger's Syndrome using advanced search in Google web at
www.google.com , I used the same phrase “Asperger's Syndrome” and I
used the Boolean indicators AND, OR to broaden my search to received all
the results on that phrase and “sponsored” OR University OR college, and I
limited my search to the edu. Domain , I received 24,000 hits , this is the
URL for the result pages: http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&as_q=Asperger
%27s+Syndrome&as_epq=&as_oq=sponsored+college+university&as_eq=&
num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=edu&as_qdr=all&as_rights=
&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images
2- I found among the first page of results 2 sites that offered information about
that disease which are sponsored by universities: the first site sponsored by
Yale school of medicine : the child study center at :
http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/autism/aspergers.html another link to
information about that disease sponsored by the University of Delaware. At:
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger

A- Locate an article by McCook, Kathleen de la Pena relevant to public

libraries give the full citation of the article locate an article in Full text
1- I tried to search for that article in google book search, I put the name of “Kathleen de la
Pena McCook” to return Full text articles only written by her, but I didn’t receive any
results, then I tried searching using Google scholar search at http://scholar.google.com.
2- I also limited the returned results of the phrase “public libraries” but this time the
phrase will be occurred in anywhere in the article, I received 42 hit from:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?
start=10&q=public+libraries+author:Kathleen+author:de+author:la+author:Pena+author:
McCook&hl=en
3- I browsed the first page and found a pd. file (full text) article by McCook , the
bibliographic information of this article is:
 Service-Learning and LIS Education / By Elaine Yontz and Kathleen de la Pena
McCook, this article published in Journal of Education for Library and
Information Science, Vol. 44, No.1-Winter 2003 ,
The URL for that article is: http://jag85.com/classes/lis490/Resource5.pdf

A- An instructor has suspicions that the following phrase from a student

paper was plagiarized from an online reference work. Use Google to
identify the source of this phrase.
To find out if that student used the same phrase in his/ her paper, the instructor
has to use the same phrase in quotes” Although only 14, Adams became
interpreter and secretary to Francis Dana, U.S. envoy to Russia” and
drop it into Google web searching box at: www.Google.com , the first results will
have the same phrase in bold font, there the instructor could figure out the
sources which includes the same phrase.

I went to Google web searching box, I dropped that phrase and I received 5 hits
that included that exact phrase. It is available at:

http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=Although+only+14%2C+Adams+became+interpreter+a
nd+secretary+to+Francis+Dana%2C+U.S.
+envoy+to+Russia.&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_site
search=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=im
ages .

Here are some samples :

1- John Quincy Adams - MSN Encarta

Although only 14, Adams became interpreter and secretary to Francis
Dana, U.S. envoy to Russia. After almost two years in Saint Petersburg (then the
capital ...
encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia.../john_quincy_adams.html - Cached - Similar

2- [DOC] Search Assignments

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"Although only 14, Adams became interpreter and secretary to Francis
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I think I had a very Good experience searching with Google, I learned a lot
from this assignment, I can now use Google searching wisely to answer lots
of reference questions.