These two documents are used to provide useful guidance for planning your search of digital resources.
What is research plan and research proposal?
100
This is used to locate books, maps, dissertations completed by graduate students, and journals, newspapers, magazines, and multimedia items owned by the library.
You can use these to browse publications that you can then check out or request if it is not available.
What are library stacks?
100
This provides firsthand accounts of an event, authoritative interpretations of events and issues, and reactions to an event or issue from people who have been affected by it.
What is an interview?
200
These are methods to help you come up with key terms and phrases to use in your searches.
What are brainstorming, free-writing, looping, and clustering?
200
These are used to search for sources in most online library catalogs at colleges and universities.
What are authors, titles, keywords, subjects, publication dates, and call numbers?
200
You can use this to search on several Web search engines or Web directories at the same time.
What are meta search sites?
200
You can browse recent issues of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly or professional journals in this section of the library.
What is a library periodicals room?
200
Examples of these are lectures, conferences, public meetings and hearings, radio and television. Taking notes or audio/video recording are good ways to utilize these.
What are public events and broadcast media?
300
This allows you to look for documents that contain a single word or phrase in the subject, title, text, or other parts of a database record.
What is a basic search?
300
This allows you to search for sources that have been published on a particular subject regardless of whether the library owns the sources.
What is a database?
300
On this type of site you can search for information that has been collected in encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, and dictionaries.
What is a reference search site?
300
You can find sources such as bibliographies, indexes, biographies, general and specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, almanacs, and atlases in this part of the library.
What is a library reference room?
300
These allow you to collect information about beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors from a group of people.
What are surveys?
400
And, or, and not are examples of _________, which are used to search for all, some, or none of the words entered in the search box.
What are Boolean operators?
400
This database focuses on recently published articles in newspapers and magazines.
What is a news and information database?
400
You can use this type of site to search for broadcasts and speech recordings.
What is an audio search site?
400
This is used to locate important publications about a specific subject.
What is a bibliography?
400
Letters, faxes, emails, and Facebook are all examples of this type of field research method.
What is correspondence?
500
These two people are particularly helpful when seeking feedback on your research plans.
Who are instructors and reference librarians?
500
This database provides access to images, videos, and audio sources.
These allow you to determine which publications make reference to other publications, which is a useful strategy for finding sources that are engaged in the same conversation.
What are citation indexes?
500
These are used when published resources are not useful, if the issue is considered settled, and if the aspect you are looking at has not been addressed.