The following instructions were prepared by Ms. Carolyn Hatcher at the Cape Fear Community College Learning Resource Center (LRC) and edited by me primarily to help students perform Internet tasks related to my course assignments, especially the Bibliography project. While this is its primary purpose, our hope is that anyone might find these instructions helpful.

I. You must use a formatted 2HD disk!

• 1. Put a disk into the "A" disk drive. (Located on the front of your computer.)

• 2. Enter the Windows program. In the LRC this requires that you select Windows 3.1 (Internet Access) by using the up and down arrow keys to highlight Windows.

• 3. Press enter to select.

4. Using the left mouse button double click on Netscape 2.0. Double click on Netscape Navigator.

II. If you are using a community computer, such as those in Cape Fear's Library, it will be necessary to delete the existing bookmarks to ensure that only those bookmarks which you will save for your bibliography get saved and printed.

• 5. Using the left mouse button, click once on Bookmarks (see top of the screen).

• 6. Click once on Go To Bookmarks.

• 7. Click once on the first bookmark entry.

• 8. While holding down the shift key, move you cursor to and click on the last entry. All bookmarks should now be highlighted. Press the delete key.

• 9. Click on File. (Upper left corner of the screen)

• 10. Click on Close.

III. NOW YOU ARE GOING TO SEARCH THE NET TO FIND YOUR INFORMATION AND SAVE THE ADDRESSES IN THE FORM OF BOOKMARKS.

• 11. Click on Net Search.

• 12. Use the search engine on screen or click on a "search engine" preference, e.g. INFOSEEK, YAHOO or , Lycos, etc. You can also scroll down for additional "search engines." Click on your choice. Once you select a "search engine" click inside the empty white box, which usually has "search" or "seek" next to it, and type in the subject, e.g. Philosophy. The "search engine" will provide a master list of sites on your subject.

Note: How you define your search on the Internet is as important as when doing a subject search in the electronic catalogues of a library. The more broadly your topic is stated the greater the number of sites will be found in your search. This could make finding information difficult. Thus define your subject clearly and specifically, .

• 13. Select a title that you would like to check by clicking on the highlighted text to open.

• 14. If this page or site looks like a good or interesting source and you want to save it as a bookmark, click on Bookmarks and then click on Add Bookmark. Click on Back to return to your master list. (Repeat step 14 for each address)

• 15. When you have saved the last bookmark address that you wish to save, click on Bookmarks, then click on Go To Bookmarks.

• 16. Click on File.

• 17. Click on Save As.

• 18. Change the disk drive to "A" by using the following steps:
  

a. Click on the first down arrow in the Drives box;


b. Click on the up arrow and scroll up until the "A" drive appears;

c. Click on "A".

d. Go to the Filename box and delete *.htm and type in a filename (LIMITED TO 8 LETTERS).

• 19. Click on OK. (Congratulations you have just down loaded your bookmarks; however, you are not through yet. You must clean up your bookmarks (eliminate the junk) and print.

IV. TO PRINT AND CLEAN UP YOUR DOCUMENT YOU WILL NEED TO DO THE FOLLOWING:

• 20. Click on File; click on Close; click on File; click on Close; click on Window; click on Accessories.

• 21. Double click on Write.

• 22. Click on File.

• 23. Click on Open

• 24. Change the disk drive to "A" by using the following steps:
  

a. Click on the first down arrow in the Drives box;


b. Click on the up arrow and scroll up until the "A" drive appears; click on "A".

• 25. Change List Files of Type by scrolling down and clicking on All Files.

• 26. Click on your file to select the bookmarks you saved.

• 27. Click on OK.

• 28. Click on Convert.

• 29. Clean up your address list by doing the following:

a. Delete the "junk" at the top;

b. Key in your heading; name, class, instructor and date.

c. Center your title your title using the following steps:

1. Click on paragraph;
2. Select center;
3. Type in title.

d. Space between bookmark entries.

• 30. Click on File; click on Print; click on OK; click on File; click on Exit.

• 31. Click on No.

• 32. When asked to "save current changes" say no, this will enable you to import them at a later date.

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