Agenda for Third Meeting

Part One: Lecture

• Abstractions
• Theory of Research
• Boolean Logic
• Traditional Research
• Digital Research
• The Browser and its uses
• HTML
• Database access
• Browser conventions and tools
• Bookmarks
• History
• Linear v. non-linear logic
• The Web and its uses
• Traditional Research goals
• References to books, articles and reference materials
• Commercial Databases
• Library Catalogs
• Digital access to Materials themselves
• Searching
• Research-related Institutions
• Archives
• Portals
• Directories
• Evaluating web materials

• Searching Utilities
• Search Engines
• Searching Software
• Lexibot
• Web Ferret
• Copernic
• Bullseye
• Managing the Results:  Files, Directories and Getting Organized
• Browser Functions
• Windows Functions
• Bibliographic Database Management