Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Triangular theory of Love

Just finished library instruction for a Psychology class where the research topic is Robert J. Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love. The instructor noted the topic is in their textbook. It's not a familiar concept to me. As any student would do, I hit Google first. I confess, I use Google when I'm not sure and worse still I use Wikipedia!

So you're not surprised to hear the first result in my Google search was a Wikipedia article.

It is a teachable moment to show how some Wikipedia editors put references at the end of an article. These references point one to more academic sources.

You're thinking how does this tie to Library Resources? GALILEO has a feature called the Toolbar. You need to download it from GALILEO. The link is on the left side, 6th link 'Get your GALILEO toolbar'.

This is what the Toolbar does to a Wikipedia article.
See those purple Find It buttons? They take you to GALILEO and the original resource. It's pretty amazing.

Get the current password to GALILEO from your Georgia librarian. Download the Toolbar. Turn your Wikipedia search into a foray into GALILEO.



-kss

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