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Contents: Take a Virtual Tour of the Library

• Maps: Basement | First Floor | Reference | Second Floor | Third and Fourth Floors
• Circulation / Reserves
• Education Resources
• Government Documents / Microforms
• Music Resources
• Reference

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Contents: Using the Online Catalog

• Basic Searching
  • Catalog Options
  • "Keyword" Searching
  • "Browse" Searching
  • "Exact" Searching
• Advanced Searching
  • Advanced Search Screen
  • Browse Search
  • Call Number Search
• Understanding Results
  • Brief Record
  • Complete Record
  • Holdings

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Contents: Using Subject Headings in the Online Catalog

• What are Subject Headings?
• How to Find Subject Headings
• Using Subject Headings

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Contents: Understanding Call Numbers

• Dewey Decimal Call Numbers (Dewey)
• Library of Congress (LC) Call Numbers
• Superintendent of Documents Classification System (SuDocs)
• How to Read the Call Numbers
  
• Dewey - Primary Classes and Subclasses
• LC - Primary Classes and Subclasses
• SuDocs - Primary Classes and Subclasses

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Contents: Using Periodicals

• Types
• Formats
• Locations
• Journal Indexes
• Choosing the Right Index
• Search Techniques
• Citing Full-Text Indexes

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Contents: Using Reference Tools

• Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
• Almanacs
• Bibliographies
• Biographical Dictionaries
• Concordances
• Directories
• Chronologies
• Atlases and Gazetteers
• Handbooks and Manuals
• Statistics

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Contents: Using Government Documents

• What are Government Documents?
• US Government Documents
• State Documents
• United Nations Documents

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Contents: TigerTAIL (Tutorial About Information Literacy)

• Introduction
• Module 1 - Sources
• Module 2 - Searching
• Module 3 - Evaluating
• Follow Up

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Contents:Evaluating Information Sources

• Part I, Types of Information Sources:
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Popular vs. Scholarly
• Part II, Evaluation Criteria:
• Authority
• Reliability
• Currency
• Scope
• Relevancy

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Contents: Using the Internet in Research

• The Internet:
  • The Internet and World Wide Web Defined
  • How the Web Works
  • Navigating the World Wide Web
  • Search Engine Defined
  • Search Strategies
  • Evaluating Web Information

• The Deep Web:
  • Deep Web vs. Surface Web
  • What can you find within the deep web?
  • Finding Information in the Deep Web

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Contents: What is The Research Process?

• Clearly define your topic or "information need".
• Collect/find information.
• Evaluate the information you find.
• Use and/or do something with that information.
• Behave ethically and legally with that information.

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Contents: How to Search Efficiently

• Generating Search Terms
• Boolean Searching
• Combining Terms
• Truncation
• Field Searching
  

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