As a first time student at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, I have virgin eyes when it comes to viewing the Hunt Library. I have limited knowledge on the information withheld in the library; however, I know that the credentials of the information given is held to a certain standard. This library allows you to pull information on books, articles, DVDs/Videos, Course Reserves, Online Full Text Resources, as well as gives you recommended websites. The university has worked hard to allow their students to have place that is reliable and easy to navigate when researching a topic; which, is not always the case when using Google.
Typically when I look something up via Google, or any other search engine, I am give a vast amount of information from various websites. As with many other aspects in life, quantity is not always quality. When your searching for a topic, say Organizational Leadership, the Google may jump back with ideas ranging from how to organize your closet to the aspects one should attain with organizational leadership. With the search in ERAU's Hunt Library, the topic is more geared towards the educational standards of the topic. Hunt Library also offers a standard of work that is given, rather than Susie Q's essay assignment from the fifth grade.
When asked, how is the scholarly information you found in the library different from the typical information you find when you Google a leadership concept? The information within Hunt Library, as stated before, is one that holds certain standards. You aren't just going to get anyone's ideas on the topic of leadership. Google doesn't show any education standard discrimination. The idea that anyone can post their thoughts...including the thoughts given in this blog...is what is so great and bad about the internet. The internet allows anyone and everyone to reflect and share their thoughts and knowledge pertaining to any subject. Hunt Library, on the other hand, will allow those who have certain credentials share thoughts and ideas with in the library.
Within the next several years, while working towards my masters, and possibly another one...all depends a great deal on life...I'll most likely turn towards Hunt Library as my first source of research on the topic of discussion at hand. This will allow me to search with ease on a topic and know that what I am getting is from an accredited source. No question, I'll still use the web, Google mostly, as a means for research, but it will be with Hunt Library that I will be give a sense of security that the articles, books, views returned on the search will have accuracy.
