Bradner Basics
What you need to check out a book from the library.
What is a Schoolcraft ID or Ocelot Access schedule of classes?
Search tool that helps you find print and AV materials in the library.
What is the library catalog/online catalog?
You must do this whenever you quote or paraphrase the work of another.
What is cite it?
You can borrow this from the Learning Center service desk to help with your math homework.
What is a calculator?
The library's email address
What is library@schoolcraft.edu?
The number of study rooms in the Bradner Library.
What is 4?
Another name for academic journals and magazines.
What is periodical?
A summary or brief description of the content of another longer work often included at the beginning of a journal article.
What is an abstract?
Area in the Learning Center to get help with your writing.
What is the Writing Support Studio?
Although not a reliable source for scholarly research, this website may point to other scholarly resources.
What is Wikipedia?
Schoolcraft department located in the library that does media consulting, equipment training/delivery/setup and repair.
What is Media Services?
To find materials in the library, you will need this number from the library catalog.
What is the call number?
List of sources found at the end of a scholarly article or book.
What is Works Cited or References?
Learning Center staff who work with students to develop and individualized plan for academic success.
Who are Academic Success Coaches?
Websites with this suffix belong to non-profit organizations, which can influence the information they provide.
What is .org?
Can be borrowed from a kiosk in the library's atrium for use in the library.
What is a laptop?
Classification system used to organize materials by subject in the library.
What is the Library of Congress Classification??
Searching by this option retrieves more results because it searches multiple fields.
What is keyword?
Learning Center program in which student employees meet weekly with groups of students to support specific courses.
Peer Assisted Learning
Search operators that allow combination and/or exclusion of keywords in a search.
What are Boolean operators?
The full name of the person the library is named after.
Who is Eric Bradner?
The complete content of an article or other type of publication.
What is full text?
Found on the library website, these introduce the various types of resources on a subject.
What are LibGuides or research guides?
LC workshop series that provides students with success strategies for upcoming courses in math and other subjects.
JumpStart!
Process of subjecting research methods and findings to the scrutiny of experts in the same field.
What is peer review?