- what is your question.
What are the benifits and the consequences of humans destorying other animal homes? - What EXACT terms did you enter into the keyword search screen?
habitats - What subject heading did you choose to be sure your item was on target and the best option for your search?
habitat ecology modification united states - What item did you eventually choose? Why?
ESA--habitat conservation : oversight hearing before the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, on the Endangered Species Act with regard to section 10(a) permits (habitat conservation plans) and other incentives, July 24, 1996
i choose this because it relates to my question on what the benifits are of keeping animal habitats around us. - Give the bibliographic information for the item you chose.
author-united states. congress. house. committee on resources
title-ESA--habitat conservation : oversight hearing before the Committee on
Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second
session, on the Endangered Species Act with regard to section 10(a) permits
(habitat conservation plans) and other incentives, July 24, 1996
place published-Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs.,
Congressional Sales Office, 1996
publisher-U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs
date published- 1996 - When you looked at the reference work, what quote did you choose? Why?
(did not have the chance to check the book out) major midterm 2-10-09 - What makes this a reference book as opposed to a regular book you might find in the book stacks?
i believe this is a reference book for the fact that it explains how animal habitats are interconnected with everything around us and that it has information of what is a habitat. - In looking at the material in the book and the publication date in the bibliographic information, what year do you think the information really comes from?
i believe that the information came from 1990, because sll the information could not have been current by the way the book was beging to tear a little. i also believe that new information takes some time to be able to become a new edition.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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First, you have chosen a government document, not a reference work, so it’s difficult for you to define a reference work if you are not looking at one. In order to make sure you only had reference books, you needed to choose “reference collection” in the “location” section of the advanced keyword search screen. When you do that, instead of getting 127 results with just “habitats,” you get 2 results with the combination of “habitats” and “reference collection.”
ReplyDeleteFurther, you must have looked at the book because you noticed that it was tearing a little; however, that’s not an indication of the age of the book; it’s just an indication of how it was treated when people handled it. You could have taken a quote from it without checking it out; in fact, if you had chosen a reference book, you wouldn’t have been able to check it out as we don’t check out reference books.
As you looked at it or checked the catalog record, you determined that the publication date was 1996. At that point, in order to try to determine when the information was actually written, you would have to look more closely at the book itself. In the case of government documents, it’s usually easy to figure out when the work was created because the work will tell you when the hearings were held and the material you chose is simply a transcript of that hearing. With a reference book, it’s harder.
You wrote: “I believe this is a reference book for the fact that it explains how animal habitats are interconnected with everything around us and that it has information of what is a habitat,” but that’s not what makes a reference book. If you look at an actual reference book, you will see that the coverage is very broad and that most reference books provide multiple entries that cover many aspects of a topic. You can get a book from the regular stacks that explains how animal habitats are interconnected with the world around us.