After completing this section of the tutorial, you should be able to:

  • identify a variety of information sources
  • recognize that appropriate sources of information will change depending on your needs
  • identify characteristics of library resources
  • recognize that library collections are located in buildings and on the Web
  • understand what you would find in a periodical index
  • distinguish between popular and scholarly periodicals
  • identify types of information available in library databases
  • identify appropriate strategies for selecting search terms
  • combine search terms effectively

The final section of this tutorial is an 8 question quiz, so feel free to take notes if it will help.


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