Library Day
Reminders
- Rent the Book $20 from us EDM 101 TODAY
- Labs Next Week - Meet at Honolulu Zoo at 1:30pm. LMK if you need a ride from campus
Goals for today
- With your partner, explore background on potential animals
- Search for books that will help with the Animal Design Project Background
- Check out at least 5 books that may be helpful. Itʻs free!
- With your partner, Select a fossil or at least get some ideas about type of animal youʻd like to work on.
- Today is just an introduction, you will need to accumulate more information.
Explore Library Resources
Where do we find information?
General Background is best found in BOOKS. Academic books are the best source for things that are well-known or have been known for a long time. Here you will find general information about the habitat at the time (paleontology books), the general biology of that kind of animal (e.g. herpetology, mammology, or mammalian paleontology, etc. ). Get all the books you can in Hamilton for a strong foundation.
- General books on Vertebrate Paleontology, Mammalian Paleontology, Fishes, etc. These will have info on the time period, environment, habitat, lifestyle, etc.
- Books on the -ology (extant biology) of your animal. Mammology, Ornithology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, etc.
- Physiology of fishes, Avian physiology, etc.
Compilations can be found in REVIEW ARTICLES
Academic authors will sometimes write a summary of the last 10 years or so of reasearch in a review article. These are often found in Annual Reviews as well as other places. If one exists for your group, get it.
Newest Information can be found in JOURNAL ARTICLES. Scientific articles report the latest findings at that moment in time.
Search Strategies
Start with the Zool430 study guide to get familiar with what kinds of books are available
- Check out the tabs along the top
- The “In Class Exercises” is very helpful for developing database
- Be sure to enter through the UH library website and login for free access.
- UH Library science databases and E-journals: http://www.hawaii.edu/sciref/.
- Check out “Science & Technology Databases” tab.
- Good databases: Web of science, google scholar, or zoological record
- Jonathan Young is our own Natural Sciences Reference Librarian. Please reach out to him for help - heʻs very friendly and willing to help.
We are going to Hamilton Addition 3rd Floor
Before you leave
- Turn in your Library Day worksheet to me
- Check out your 5 books from the library
- Post your fossil choice (or as soon as possible)
For Next Time
- Prepare for our discussion on metabolic rates and size and scaling reading assignment and questions Note that there are readings from your textbook (Withers, 1992) as well as Hill Wise and Anderson (HWA). These are on the shared google drive.
- Keep exploring potential fossils with your partner online
- Keep collecting books, articles, and sources for your design background