Unfortunately, I cannot fly to Hunt Library to walk around Daytona Beach myself; I do not have the money for that right now. However, the Hunt Library website provides a YouTube video (which is hilarious) about the resources the Library offers. Like the Prescott equivalent, the Hunt Library seems to have a good variety of places for students to gather and study quietly independently, or to utilize study rooms and computer labs to study together in groups. It has a variety of magazines, periodicals and newspapers from the area to nationally recognized outlets. it also has a great display of model airplanes.
As I explore the website for Hunt Library, I notice it has a plethora of resources for use by the public. During regular office hours (EST) I can ask questions for research to a live librarian. I have used this type of resource in the past and it is extremely helpful in figuring out where to begin what pursuing information of all types. It is more helpful to me to type my questions to a librarian than to call, as it gives me a history of what we discussed and the librarian can add links directly to our conversation, which I can refer to later. There is a journal collection, and the site provides "New eBooks This Week" which has more than 10 new books available weekly. Although most of these offerings are focused on engineering and space science, I found one that highlighted personal interests:
Extremism in America
Subjects: Radicalism United States. - Social movements United States. - Ideology United States. - Right and left (Political science) United States.
How is the scholarly information you found in the library different from the typical information you find when you Google a leadership concept?
The HathiTrust Digital Library is another interesting addition to Hunt. The site describes itself as "provid[ing] long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources". Google does not always more scholarly journals to the forefront of their information; another way to think of Google is how we think of education as a pursuit. The harder something is to find, whether it be information or acquiring a technical degrees, the more valuable it tends to be!
I found a course available on the site called "Evaluating Sources." The goal of the program is to "provide students with a module which would reinforce the concepts of choosing credible and reliable sources." This relates directly to the developing the strengths needed to be successful in this course. Critical thinking study notes that being able to find and utilize quality academic resources allows for higher defense in logically concluding arguments and research problems.
References
Evaluating Sources. Retrieved at http://library.erau.edu/help/evaluating-sources/
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