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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 Library Help guide where you would go for questions about
MLA & APA citations
and plagiarism.
What is
“Citation Styles”?
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"?
(located in the "Research & Study" box)
This special kind of Google search limits results to academic articles and books.
What is Google Scholar?
(It can be linked to the DCC library for easy access.)
A fine source for introducing you to a topic but you should NEVER use it in your works cited page or references list.
What is Wikipedia?
(Use Credo Reference instead!)
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?
Name of the Ritz Research Guide you would use if you had to research a career.
What is the “Career Research” guide?
(or the “Careers” tab of any subject guide)
The 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 a more detailed method of finding information on Google by specifying additional requirements and employing search operators.
What is Google Advanced Search?
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?
(look for the eyeglasses!)
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"?
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”?
The Library Help guide dedicated to understanding misinformation.
What is Fake News?
Where you go to find frequently asked questions about the library.
What is the FAQ search box?
Name of at least two of the tabs
you’ll find on any Research Guide
dedicated to an academic area.
(Hint: open a Ritz Subject Guide)
What are ...?
+ Getting Started (encyclopedias & dictionaries)
+ Books (featured in print and ebooks)
+ Journals (featured and by subtopic)
+ Databases (best bets for any given field)
+ Websites (hand-picked by librarians)
+ Careers
At least two reasons why you should use library databases for academic research projects.
What are …
- the ability to easily 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, & more)
This is where you should look to find out about a website’s contributors, code of ethics, sponsors, and purpose.
What is the
“About Us” page?
FINAL JEOPARDY
"_________ ______" (2 word phrase) refers to a person's ability to identify, find, evaluate, and use information effectively.
What is Information Literacy?