Bibliography Task

Online Library Resources

During today's lecture we had moved rooms for our meeting with Sarah Robinson to discuss different ways to access resources online. She had shown us how to use the summon searchtool and also UCS OPAC, (from these I found the summon searchtool to be most useful).

We also covered the importance of bibliographies and how to record them with ease through the use of RefWorks. We were also shown the web plugin called Zotero which is another bibliography recording tool, however, I personally prefer RefWorks due to how it works with the online UCS Library.

 

Task:
 

Our objective or task for this session was to use the databases shown and provided previously to find two full length books, two contributions to books (otherwise known as 'readers' or 'anthologies') and two articles in refereed journals, for a particular topic (within the games design course) and to record them in a bibliography.

(RWUCSuffolk) - RefWorks Info.

My chosen specific area was 'Character Design' for which I found the following reading materials by using the summon searchtool and then recording the findings in RefWorks:

(The following layout of the above is based on the 'Harvard Referencing' system).

1. Reader 1 'Armstrong, H. (2009) Graphic design theory: readings from the field. New York: Princeton Architectural Press'.
2. Reader 2 'Corneliussen, H. G. and Rettberg, W. J. (2008) Digital culture, play and identity: A World of Warcraft reader. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press'.
3. Book 1 'Hartas, L. (2005) The art of game characters. Lewes: Ilex'.
4. Book 2 'Tillman, B. (2011) Creative character design. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Ltd'.]
5. Journal 1 'Gustafson, J. (1990) 'Design a Character', The Reading Teacher 44 (1) 86-87'.
6. Journal 2 'Triantafyllakos, G., Palaigeorgiou, G. and Tsoukalas, I. A. (2010) 'Fictional characters in participatory design sessions: Introducing the “design alter egos” technique', Interacting with Computers 22 (3) 165-175'.