The
Hunt Library has a feature called EAGLEsearch that allows for a Basic Search
and for an Advanced Search. The Basic Search area has selector tabs allowing
the user to search for books, articles, videos, and for research help. This
feature allows for a fairly quick search for material that is related to the
key words entered in a search box.
Clicking on the Advanced Search link
takes the user to a screen that allows for searching for material with key
words, but also for far more refined searching by designating an author, a
title, the ISBN or ISSN for a book, the name of a publication, and even the
volume and issue of a publication. Even further it allows for material based on
publication dates. There are also numerous
content types to select that further narrows a search. You can also designate
such things as whether the full text on the material is online and whether the
material has been peer reviewed.
Conducting a Basic Search for
leadership material using EAGLEsearch results in a large number of links to all
sorts of material related to leadership, and a magnifier button allows the user
to preview each of the links. Conducting an Advanced Search using the advanced
refinement tools allows the user to find more pertinent material much faster.
By contrast, Google searches for
leadership material brings the user to a screen filled with links to any number
of sources of material. A quick scan of the links shows that a user could
select from some respected sources, such as Psychology Today and the U.S. Air
Force, but there are also some unknown and perhaps dubious sources of
information. Digging through these links would most likely prove frustrating
and may provide less than scholarly information.
For scholarly research I would find
the Hunt Library a far more useful source of information that would very likely
speed up my efforts at conducting research.
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