[nabs-l] research methods

Serena serenacucco at verizon.net
Wed Nov 19 20:00:15 UTC 2008


Yes, I worked with a librarian 1 on 1.  I directed readers to read the 
contents, headings, and index.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
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> Serena,
>
> Research is a struggle for me.
> You say you used librarians to find books.  Did you have to meet one to 
> one for this?
>
> Books are hard copy sources and require readers.  I am finding I had to 
> use books as well for my senior paper on child obesity.  Articles will 
> focus on one thing and one study whereas books have a little of 
> everything: causes,
> prevalence, and treatment.
> So once you have the book(s) how do you direct the reader to get what you 
> want?  I've asked them to read contents and headings so far but its so 
> challenging.  For instance we read ten pages of a chapter before I 
> realized it wasn't going to be useful.
>
> Ashley
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Serena" <serenacucco at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] research methods
>
>
>>I used the library data bases.  Proquest Direct and Ebscohost are pretty 
>>accessible.  If the articles were relatively short, I read them all the 
>>way through with Jaws, but if they were really long, I used readers.  The 
>>librarians often helped me find books.  That often helped, so I wouldn't 
>>have to use readers for that.
>>
>> Serena
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:14 PM
>> Subject: [nabs-l] research methods
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I wanted some more ideas on this.  Then I'll have a sheet with ideas for 
>>> myself and others wo ask me.  I am about to begin a big research paper 
>>> for my senior class.  All seniors do this to demonstrate critical 
>>> thinking, organization and writing skills.  Research has been quite 
>>> challenging.  I use readers a lot but its hard to communicate what I am 
>>> looking for.  Much research is at the library and books and some other 
>>> matterial is not accessible.  So my questions.
>>>
>>> Do you use your school's databases?  What ones are jaws friendly?  Its 
>>> been my experience that databases are not very accessible.  There are 
>>> lots of boxes and info before jaws reads the titles of articles.  In an 
>>> article I'm sure you read the abstract first to determine relevance.  I 
>>> do as wel.
>>>
>>> How do you skim the article for relevant info?  Or perhaps you read it 
>>> all?  Scholarly articles are big, about twenty pages long on average 
>>> from my experience. With jaws or a reader, skipping info is hard since I 
>>> don't know what I'm looking for exactly.
>>> How do you cite pages?  Does someone read you the page numbers as well? 
>>> This has been problematic for me.  I write notes but don't know later 
>>> what page it was on and cannot skim the article for that info.
>>>
>>> Have you used the librarians for help?  If so, what role did they play? 
>>> Did you ask them to search for you and they read you the titles of 
>>> articles/books?  I have used them and they pointed me to the right 
>>> databases and card catalog for books but also served as a reader sort of 
>>> as we gathered info.
>>>
>>> I find research frustrating when you think something sounds great and 
>>> read it but then its not so good.  I think this happens to all students, 
>>> but since it takes longer for us its more frustrating.
>>>
>>> Any ideas are appreciated.
>>>
>>> Ashley
>>>
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