Messing around with Xanga when you should be working on that paper?

Bibliophobic?

The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.  Maybe your problem is a paper due at the end of the week (or sooner)

Thinking you'll do a little research while you're online?

Consider a couple of distressing facts.

• A high percentage of  online information is not indexed by any of the search engines, for purposes of argument let's take a wild guess and say 80 percent  .
• An even higher percentage of quality information that would be adequate for your rbc research is not available for free online, for purpose of an even bigger argument, Let's say 90 percent .

This means:

Writing a good college-level paper will require more than reading a few paragraphs from the first 10 cheesy websites that Google displays.

Let me recommend:

Using your ohio library card or RBC's Corporate account to access some SERious information through OPLIn.org.  to help you do that, There are two handouts for RBC students that you can access online right now!  You can access good full-text research with just a few clicks right now.

The Research Advice handout gives you some advice about how to approach your online research.

http://www.rosedale.edu/library/ResearchAdvice_Online.pdf

The magazine & Journal Research handout talks about conventional magazine/journal research at RBC, but includesdirections for using Oplin.  The oplin directions are the ones you probably want right now.

http://www.rosedale.edu/library/MagJournalResearch.pdf

There are some other things you can do at the library section of the Rosedale Website:

Anabaptist documents in PDF form (be careful, Menno is huge)

http://www.rosedale.edu/library/olcollections.html

An invitation from the librarian to send reference questions by email.

http://www.rosedale.edu/library/emaillib.html

Our catalog online.

http://216.141.143.221/InfoCentre/Library.do

and finally

A couple of Inspirational Quotes to send you on your way:

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

                                                           Donald Robert Perry Marquis

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

                                                          Thomas De Quincey