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The librarian's job is to help you accomplish your research tasks.
When you need some guidance on how to do research for a paper or simply
to research a topic of interest to you, please see Ms. Safarik. She
will be more than happy to help out!
If you're stuck and not sure how to proceed on a research project that you have already started, and Ms. Safarik is not currently available, "push the button" to the right to send your question to Ms. Safarik and receive an email answer! (please allow 1-2 work days for reply, school year only)
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User name and password required for home use
Obtain these from:
1. handout in library
OR
2. login to Aeries and get info from the "resources" tab
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Results are all trustworthy websites
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Almanac, Atlas: provides facts/figures in easy-to-find format
Encyclopedia, Manual, Handbook: provides concise (short-and-to-the-point) information, FAQ (frequently asked questions)
Index, Bibliography, Abstract, Concordance: guides user to information found in other sources
Internet: huge amount of information; there is a great need to
carefully evaluate the information for accuracy and reliability
Newspapers: current events
Nonfiction Books: large amount of information on a topic, provides many details
Periodicals and Online Databases: provides current information
- journals (type of periodical): tend to be more scholarly, more academic. Many are "peer-reviewed" which means that the information is checked and verified by peers in the same field
- magazines (type of periodical): less academic, popular-culture issues, leisure, etc.
Primary Sources, including interviews: provides first-hand information, eye witness accounts
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Google Search More Effectively
~ searches - The tilde (pronounced till'-day) ~ before a word looks for synonyms (with no space between it and the word). For example:
highway safety ~elderly
...will also find highway safety and seniors, senior citizens, and older drivers
Advanced Search - allows you to control what Google retrieves
and refine your search in ways that the basic search box cannot. For
example, you can set the Advanced Search to:
* Find results with all the words or with an exact phrase
* Return pages written in a particular language
* Return results of a particular file format: Adobe Acrobat .pdf Microsoft Word .doc, PowerPoint .ppt., Excel .xls, etc.
* Return only recent pages updated in last three months, six months, past year, etc.
* return results from a particular site or domain, including educational (.edu) and governmental (.gov) Websites.
-You can restrict your search to only ".edu" sites at
universities and colleges or you can even limit your results to
"duke.edu" and only retrieve pages from Duke University. (This might
come in handy if you know about a particular research center or
collection at Duke.) Likewise, you can search for documents at
"epa.gov," the Environmental Protection Agency Website, or simply
change it to ".gov." for all U.S. governmental agencies.
Google tips modified from the website InfoLit @ Ramsey: http://www.lib.unca.edu/library/infolit/google_research.html
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