The Jack R. Hunt Library – Worldwide site
consists of many different scholarly informational sources of any topic. It’s
just like the city library but online. This online library, made for ERAU
Worldwide students, allows students from anywhere around the world to find
scholarly articles or books at any given time of day. Any searched information
can be found in 6 different forms. It can vary from books with hard covers, to
full text resources to even DVDs and videos. If by any chance the searched
information isn’t available or found, there’s an “Ask a librarian” help area
located at the right side of the main page. The “Ask a librarian” area allows
students to call, chat or send an email to the worldwide librarians asking for
the unavailable information. Typically, librarians respond within 48 business
hours with at least 5 different sources of the asked information. On the main
page, students can also recommend websites, articles, or any new material to be
available in the library. They can also access websites recommended by the
librarians. For example, they can find links about any subject such as
Aviation, Engineering, Business and so on. The Hunt library also allows
students to request and borrow information from other libraries.
When using websites, such as Google or
Bing, to find research on broad topics, too many results come up with just the
searched term in them. Google can be very handy for certain quick need-to-know
information that might not necessarily be needed for creditability purposes. Unfortunately
for students, many of these articles or websites shown as results are not
creditable websites or peer-reviewed articles for proper research. For example,
when I search the word leadership on Google, I find a variety of results. These
results vary from the definition of the word, to quotes, to even magazines with
articles containing the word leadership. Websites such as Wikipedia containing
“everything” about the term leadership come up. Some students use this site for
research purposes, when in reality non-experts of the subject have posted the
information. Some users of Wikipedia also manipulate the information for their
own purposes. When I search leadership in the Hunt Library, I find many
peer-reviewed articles on leadership and even about the different leadership
styles studied. Therefore, it is always best to use creditable websites, such
as the Hunt library, to find creditable, peer-reviewed information on the topic
of research.
As a graduate student of the Masters of
Science in Leadership program, I will find the Jack R. Hunt Library – Worldwide
to be very useful towards my studies. This library is full of ready to use
scholarly information available at any time. It saves the students time and a
trip to the local library to find articles and books that in the past have
already been researched and reviewed. All of the articles and books found
through this library are creditable, and peer-reviewed information made for
students by experts. Therefore, throughout my studies I will be taking
advantage of the Hunt library sources to find creditable sources for my
research. A library always beats Google on creditability on any topic any day!
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