[nabs-l] academic library access

[STOMBERG, KENNEDY]

Ashley,

It honestly depends on the type of research you are doing. You are so right
about the Ebsco databases, though. They are a nightmare!

If you're looking for scinitific journal articles, I find that Google
Scholar is very
accessable. Bookshare or Learning Allz might also be an option, if
they have the books you need.

I have had both good and bad experiences with librarians. And I deffinitely
agree that it's frustrating to still need readers in this day and age! It's
kind of redicubous!

Good luck with your classes this semester!
Kennedy Stomberg

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Vejas Vasiliauskas via nabs-l <
nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> If you have a Bookshare account, you could try looking for the book
> there.  If you're working on a research paper of some kind, Bookshare
> usually has some good books on the topic you're researching.
> I never used the databases in high school; do you find using them helpful?
> Vejas
>
>
>
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> Hi all,
>
> I’d like to hear about the level of support and accessibility of your
> library and the resources it has.
> I’ve written about my struggles before.  The gist is that many library
> databases have access issues.  The ebsco ones are the worst.  Its hard to
> open the pull down list of options, but I think I finally did open them
> with spacebar.  I find that databases run through Oxford and proquest are
> generally user friendly and accessible.  Jstor is fairly decent, but seems
> like most articles are image pdfs or display on the screen as images.  I
> kept wondering why jaws was saying graphic and the next line said page 1 of
> 5 or however many pages it was; then it occurred to me that the text must
> be an image; so I found the pdf link to download it.
> The pdf was an image too, so I had to convert it.
>
> Generally, when I was in the university setting, I got support from the
> reference desk.  They retrieved books for me and other students had to find
> them by call number.  I got pretty much the same support as other
> students.  I was on my own with access barriers.  Sometimes, I was able to
> get a library assistant to sit down with me and look at the database and
> then email me relevant articles.  This worked much faster than jaws.
>
> Now, to learn more, I’m taking classes at Northern virginia community
> college, nova, while looking for work.
>
> Many Nova reference staff are great and in fact go the extra mile.  They
> explain well how to search databases.  Others seem to struggle how to
> verbalize things.  Normally, they demo the task and have the information
> seeker watch what they are doing
>
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