On the Shelf
The Wild, Wild Web
Dating Databases
To the Sources
Plague of Plagiarism
100
This kind of book can't be checked out from the library.
What is a Reference Book?
100
Use these around several words together when searching in Google to look for a particular phrase
What are Quotation Marks?
100
This is the word you put between search terms to narrow (get fewer) results
What is And?
100
The best source for lots of information on one subject
What is a book?
100
What you put around a section of text when you are using it exactly as written in the original source
What are Quotation Marks?
200
In the library catalog, VG-South indicates that a book is at this library
What is Vance-Granville South Campus?
200
This option in Google allows you to search only pictures
What is Image Search?
200
When doing a database search, use this symbol to search for variations of a word
What is a star or asterisk?
200
The best source for information about current, local events and issues.
What is a Newspaper Article?
200
When you describe the main points or ideas of a longer source in your own words, you do this
What is Summarize?
300
When searching the library catalog, this word will allow you to expand or broaden your search
What is Or?
300
What you see on the end of a web address for a government web page
What is .GOV?
300
To only search a database for complete articles, check this box on the search page
What is Full Text?
300
The best source for information that is only a few hours old
What is a Webpage?
300
When using someone else's words or ideas in your own work, you must do this
What is Cite?
400
A type of encyclopedia that focuses on one particular topic (The Encyclopedia of Stress, for example)
What is a Subject Encyclopedia?
400
This searches multiple search engines at once
What is a Meta-Search Engine?
400
This is the file type that lets you see how an article looked when it was originally printed
What is a PDF?
400
This kind of periodical contains articles written by experts in a subject for other experts in the same subject
What is a Journal?
400
Restating or clarifying someone else's idea by using your own words
What is Paraphrasing?
500
When looking at the following call number, the first thing you look at to locate the book on the shelf: LC 459 .W12 2001
What is LC?
500
When questioning the objectivity of a webpage, it is important to determine if it leans toward a particular viewpoint, also called a noticeable this
What is bias?
500
The name of the resource that provides access to many different databases and other resources to everyone in North Carolina
What is NC LIVE?
500
One way to get information from a source that is a living person
What is an Interview?
500
A list of different resources used in a paper, usually found at the back
What is a Bibliography or Works Cited?
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