What search tools have you tried, and what are you noticing about them?
I was inspired by one of the readings this week as a source/topic, the reading about Four Questions To Protect Your Culture From CoVID-19, and particularly the statement: “every moment is a culture-shaping moment, for good or for bad, and will continue to have an impact long after theCOVID-19 crisis.” This time I went to the SU Libraries first. It was much more successful than my first round and I do think I have some better scholarly sources to start out with. I already feel more secure in this endeavor than the last one with the results I saw just by one search topic in the SU Libraries. I also will continue to use the Notetaking exercise we were given this week, to help focus the selected articles and the information most robust to my topic. I found this very helpful and similar to what I have been doing, but with more specificity. I also think it will help narrow down my topic more clearly.
Plot some research goals for yourself.
I plan to expand my search topics, but keeping within the pandemic/capitalism and also diversity and inclusion within that topics, i was not expecting those to be so easily searchable, but it seems there’s a breadth of discussion around all of these topics individually and together. I feel once i have worked with the following selected sources so far, I will be able to whittle down an even more focused search criteria.
First, I’m wondering if my 1 primary source would be the article we read this week that inspired me to move forward with this topic? https://www.thinkbrighthouse.com/2020/03/4-questions-to-protect-your-culture-from-covid-19/
Other than that I am developing a nice list of scholarly sources from both general searches on the internet as well as the SU libraries.
https://hbr.org/2020/04/preparing-your-business-for-a-post-pandemic-world
https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr/article/view/22515
https://journals-sagepub-com.libezproxy2.syr.edu/doi/10.1177/1090198120922942
As for the COVID article being a possible primary source, I would encourage you to dig a little deeper. This article comes from a consulting firm, so really they’re speaking to what they see among their clients, and it’s more secondhand than primary. That said, there is a LOT of conversation unfolding around these issues, with lots of leaders speaking from their own experiences and their own companies–let’s hear what’s happening there.
I agree with you about SU libraries getting easier and easier to use. To more I engage in the search tools and the texts I find, the easier it gets to find what I want. I too, found the note-taking exercises helpful and was able to get more out of the texts I found