General Reference Center Gold & You
Whenever I make a new purchase, I want what I'm spending my hard earned cash on to be the best possible product for the cheapest amount of money. To figure this out, I like to start my research with Consumer Reports. Of course, we have paper copies of Consumer Reports on hand at all library branches. But did you know you can also access these articles from the comfort and convenience of your own home? It's true! All you need is the internet and your GRPL library card. Revolutionary, isn't it?
Perhaps you're toying with idea of buying a new digital camera or laptop? Or maybe you are like me and this icy cold weather has you craving a space heater. Regardless, you can find all you need through a little thing called General Reference Center Gold. It's pretty easy to use.
From our webpage, just click on databases, located under the heading reference, and then choose General Reference Center Gold. You'll be prompted to enter your library card number and last name. Now your in! In the top field, enter the product you are looking for. Examples: washer, dryer, laptops, printers*, etc. In the bottom field, next to where it says by publication title type Consumer Reports. Click on the search button. Voila! All of the articles related to your search term come up. You can even see what they looked like in the print magazine by clicking on the PDF version.
Happy product hunting!
*I've noticed that if I do a search with the plural vs. singular, I get better results. Example: printers vs. printer. However, if you want to bypass the whole plural vs. singular mess, turn it into a wildcard search. To do this, put an asterisk after a word it will search all variations of that word after the point where you place the asterisk. If you type in printer* you'll get all the results for printer & printers. If you did print*, you'd get, in addition to the other two, prints printing and any other variation you can think of.