i am not sure if it is merely the fact that i am pretty technologically impaired or that i am simply easily overwhelmed by the occasional information overload that can occur while researching, but i hate to leave the miami libraries page and use other sites as my method of pulling up the correct resources. i have been told several times that while it is a good source, it is far from the best source out ther, and that i am hampering my own research and the “scope of my papers” by not branching out into the other options offered but, it really does intimidate me. i also don’t see the point. i was taught way back in english 111 how to use the miami libraries search engine, why should i bother to not use what is already at my finger tips and that has 99% of what i have looked for previously? deciding to find another search source though, i went out into the world wide web and browsed until i came across the easy to use, mostly on-line research filled page, research tools/iTools. sure it’s basic, sure plenty of you guys probably already know how to use it, but i thought it was a great page if only because of the use of three different on-line encyclopedias loaded right within the search page (Encarta being one which brings me back to the good old days of windows 95). so for those scaredy cats like me, check it out. it’s easy to manage 
