Where To Start
The name of the library homepage search tab you use to find books AND articles on a topic
What is Discover@MU
The name of the library homepage search tab that you use for looking up books, CDs and DVDs (as opposed to those things AND articles)
What is Books and More
The name of the desk where people will check books out to you and answer questions about your individual library account
What is Circulation Desk
Searching for immigrat* will give search results including all EXCEPT one of the following words: immigrant </br>
immigration </br>
immigrate </br>
immigrated </br>
What is immigrant
The letter-number combination that helps you locate library books on a shelf
What is a CALL NUMBER?
The part/section of the library homepage you use if you are looking for a particular journal, article or database by name
What is LOOKING FOR...
The part of the library catalog record that tells you if the book is available for checkout right now
What is Status
The name of the subject librarian for Anthropology
Who is Rachel Brekhus
If I want to focus my search results more narrowly, I should:
a) Use a string of synonyms separated by OR</br>
b) Specify that my keyword(s) be found in the article title
What is b) Specify that my keyword(s) be found in the article title
The number of Mizzou campus libraries that offer reservable study rooms
What is 3
The name of the library homepage link you use if you're looking for a type of book or information source, such as encyclopedias, polls, or fiction books?
What is How Do I Find?
The name of the statewide consortium of libraries whose books you can borrow as an MU student
What is MOBIUS
Name the type of material Marie Concannon is in charge of and expert in
What is government documents
The punctuation you use in many research databases, as well as Google, to force your string of words to be found together, in that exact order?
What are quotation marks
The "R" on the "3R" button in the Ellis Library main elevators stands for this word.
What is Rear
The name of the homepage link to use if you want a guide to good databases and other research materials on a particular subject, such as Education
What is Research by Subject
The name of the gray button I use if I want to have a book sent to me for pickup at MU from another MOBIUS library
What is Request It
What non-library people work some hours in Ellis Library and can help you with your writing?
Who are writing tutors (or: Writing Center tutors/employees/staff)
The category of search result that will NOT be removed from your search if you limit results to "scholarly/peer reviewed":
magazine articles </br>
novels </br>
refereed articles</br>
Wikipedia articles
What are refereed articles ("refereed" is a synonym for "peer reviewed.")
The hours during which an MU ID card is required to enter Ellis Library
What is 10pm to 7am
The name of the library location that contains very old, beautiful and/or valuable books
What is Special Collections
The maximum number of University Libraries books that undergraduate students can have checked out at once
What is 250
What system can you log into, as an MU student, that will allow you to make an appointment with the subject librarian for any of your classes?
What is MU Connect
The button I click if I have done a search for books in the MERLIN catalog, and I want to change my search so that it only finds books published since 2010
What is Modify Search
The number of months for which I can keep most books I check out from the University Libraries
What is four