Library
Homepage
Homepage
This is where you will find a link to the Ritz Library website.
What/Where is the middle of the myDCC Student tab?
How to get to a list of all the Ritz Research Guides, listed alphabetically or grouped by field of study.
What is the link called
“Ritz Research Guides”?
(located in the “Research & Study” box)
This is how you view
all of the databases
in our library collection,
in alphabetical order or grouped by subject.
What is the “Database List” in the “Research & Study” box?
This special kind of Google search limits results to academic articles and books. It can be linked to the DCC library for easy access.
What is Google Scholar?
A fine source for background research that you should NEVER use in your works cited page or references list.
What is Wikipedia?
How you get help from a librarian 24 hours a day,
7 days a week,
via text or Zoom.
What is the “Ask a Librarian” Live Chat box?
(found all over the library website)
Name of the Research Guide you would use if you had an assignment on your dream career.
What is the “Career Research” guide?
(or the “Careers” tab of any subject guide)
Name of a newspaper
you can find
in our databases.
What is The New York Times
or Wall Street Journal
or Poughkeepsie Journal?
or any other major newspaper!
This is how you get Google to narrow results to certain types of websites, or date ranges, or other criteria.
What is Google Advanced Search?
The Library Help guide dedicated to understanding misinformation.
What is Fake News?
Name of the service for making a 1-on-1 appointment for up to an hour with a reference librarian.
What is Book-a-Librarian?
Examples of
types of sources
you’ll find on a
Ritz Research Guide.
What are reference sources, (encyclopedias & specialized dictionaries), featured books and journals, best-bet databases, reliable websites, and career information?
The name of any of our streaming video databases.
What is Films on Demand
or Academic Video Online
or Kanopy?
This is how you tell Google to search for an exact phrase.
What are “quotation marks”?
You should always look up this person to decide if they have the necessary expertise for you to trust their writing.
Who is the author of an article or website?
Name of the search tool that searches almost every library database, plus books, ebooks, and other sources not freely available on Google.
What is RitzDiscovery?
Name of the Library Help guide dedicated to helping you get better results out of Google and the open web.
What is Smarter Internet Searching?
A feature of library databases that Google doesn’t have.
What are …
- the ability to narrow down your results?
- more reliable sources from trusted publishers?
- easy citation tools?
This is what you call the part of a URL that tells you if a website is connected to a company, school, non-profit organization, or government.
What is a domain extension?
(.com, .edu, .org, .gov)
This is where you can find out about a website’s contributors, code of ethics, sponsors, and purpose.
What is the
“About Us” page?
Where you go to find frequently asked questions about the library.
What is the FAQ search box?
Name of the Library Help guide where you would go for questions about
MLA & APA citations
and plagiarism.
What is the
“Citation Styles” guide?
How you search across almost all of our databases at once.
What is RitzDiscovery Search?
(look for the eyeglasses!)
This special type of Google search helps you determine the validity of a claim, quote, or other topics.
What is Google’s Fact Check Explorer?
You should watch out for signs of _____ in news reporting and in your own thinking because it can color how you perceive information.
What is bias?