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Homepage
This is where you will find a link to the Ritz Library website.
What is the "Learning Commons" box on myDCC?
Also, what is the "Quick links for students box"?
How to get to a list of all of the guides created by our librarians, 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 or type.
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?
How you get help from a librarian 24 hours a day,
7 days a week,
via text or Zoom.
What is the "Chat with a Librarian" pop-out tab or 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"?
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 how you get Google to narrow results to certain types of websites, or date ranges, or other criteria.
What is Google Advanced Search?
(Google's All Filters OR Tools also work but aren't as flexible.)
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?
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 any of our streaming video databases.
What is Films on Demand
or Academic Video Online
or Kanopy or Hoopla?
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"?
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"?
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?
(other answers may be accepted)
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?
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 ...?
+ Start Your Research
+ Books
+ Databases & Journals
+ Websites
+ Careers
Many library databases feature this special type of publication. These are best for in-depth, advanced research and usually aren't free on the open web.
What are academic journals?
(Also called scholarly or peer-reviewed journals)
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?