Use Technological Tools for Accessing Information

Exercises: A number of self-paced exercises follow. Note that these are not scored. Answers are not provided for all the questions as the intent is to practice using the databases and answers may vary depending on material that has been added to the database. At the end of the exercises, you will be able to navigate to the table of contents for this tutorial or to another tutorial.

I.Overview of databases

Look carefully at the excerpts from various databases and determine which type of database the excerpt represents.

1a.

0810100000 Strawberries, Fresh (SIC0171) US EXPORTS BY COMMODITY
Country	Jan-Apr '97	Jan-Apr '96	1996	1995	1994
World Canada Mexico Bermuda	26921 25569 91 16	28375 24647 7 0/1	90553 52532 2097 0/1	87773 51586 2396 3	96628 52304 6248 29

1b.

1c.

   DATABASE: ReadGuideAbs

     SEARCH: whales migration



     AUTHOR: Hierta, Ebba.

      TITLE: Troubled waters. (changes in whale behavior

             noted as whale watching becomes more popular)

     SOURCE: National Parks v. 65 (Nov/Dec '91) p. 26-31 il.

STANDARD NO: 0276-8186

       DATE: 1991

RECORD TYPE: art

    SUBJECT: National parks and reserves - Crowd control.

             Whale watching.

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