A642.5.3.RB - Making Smart Groups

A500.3.4.RB - Explore the Hunt Library

         When I think of the Hunt Library I think of it as any other brink and mortar library. But, it means much more then that. As aviation professional and student the Hunt Library offers an extensive array of indebted information on many of the disciplines in the field of aviation.

         I personally throughout my professional and academic careers have used different search engines to do research or to simply look up information, being formal or non-formal. I would like to blame my laziness on the convenience of the Internet and the distance to the local library as to why I used search engines such as Google and Bing.

         Libraries like the Hunt library offer more scholarly information then doing a common search on the Internet. Libraries offer more scholarly information written by experts in a particular field of study - generally for the purpose of sharing original research or analyzing others' findings. Scholarly work will thoroughly cite all source materials used and is usually subject to "peer review" prior to publication. This means that independent experts in the field review, or "referee" the publication to check the accuracy and validity of its claims. The primary audience for this sort of work is fellow experts and students studying the field. As a result the content is typically much more sophisticated and advanced then that found doing a general search through a search engine.