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The Following Task Is Designed To Expand Your Familiarity With Online The following task is designed to expand your familiarity with online Information and Library Service’s OneSearch function. As with the previous two library tasks, completing this exercise will help inform your research for the final research-based report in our class. Please watch the following video tutorial. Video tutorial #3 After you have watched the tutorial, please complete the following tasks. 1. In the previous exercise, you found article related to millennials. For this exercise, please either find the same article or conduct a new search and find a new article on the topic of millennials. When you have found the article, follow the instructions provided on the video and select a new database on the right-hand side of your screen. Then answer the following questions: -What database did you select? -How many hits do you find? Next, conduct a new search to find an article on a topic of your choice, as you did in the previous library exercise. When you have found an article, follow the instructions provided on the video and select a new database on the right-hand side of your screen. Then answer the following questions: -What were your search terms? -What database did you select on the right-hand side? Why did you select this database? -How many hits do you find after choosing this database? Please answer the questions in this forum in complete sentences, and have the equivalent of two paragraphs.

Paper For Above instruction The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize students with the use of the online library's OneSearch function, which is an essential tool for conducting academic research effectively. By engaging in this activity, students learn how to navigate databases, refine search strategies, and evaluate search results—skills that are crucial for compiling relevant scholarly resources for their final research reports. The initial step involves revisiting a previously searched article on millennials, either by locating the same article or conducting a new search within the library's database system. Students are instructed to select a different database from the options provided on the right-hand side of their search interface, which offers a variety of specialized resources for research purposes. After choosing a database, students are to record the number of search results ("hits") produced by their query. This practice helps in understanding how database selection influences the breadth and relevance of search results. Once this initial task is completed, students must then conduct a second search on a topic of their choosing. This could be a subject related to their academic interests or a different area entirely. The


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