Week 2 - Library

For this week, instead of having the "How you Learn" lecture, we did the Week 4 "Using the Library" activities.

First of all, we had to go the the library in order to find sources for an upcoming 2000 word Academic Paper, which can be based on any of the following subjects:

1. Mobile Phones and their effect on society
2. Videogames and Violence
3. The effect of CGI on the film and animation industry

Videogaming is a favourite hobby of mine (but since coming back to University, it's probably best that I don't spend as much time gaming so as not to distract me from my work), and I feel that I know the industry well enough to be able to write an academic paper based on it.

Rather than relying on the Internet for information (as that would take away the very point of this week's activities), I looked to see what the library had to offer. Using the University's Digital Library, I searched for anything that contained the keywords "Videogames" and "Violence", and found and borrowed a book called Joystick Nation by J.C. Werz: this book has a whole chapter that discusses violence in videogames, and although the book was published back in 1997, much of this information is still relevant today.

Just as I can't simply rely on the Internet, I cannot rely on just this one book as a source, so I will look to see what else there is in the near future.

And after spending a good amount of time in the library looking for this book, we had a lecture on how to use the Digital Library. I am already in my third year at University, so most of this lecture was on things that I already knew.