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• The 1920's & 1930's
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Guides for Campus Events

• Elizabeth Kolbert & Global Warming
• Howard Zinn
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• Racism & White Privilege Research Guide

General Research Guides

Information

• The Information Cycle: How Today's Events Are Tomorrow's Information (tutorial from Penn State)

The Research Process

• Research 101 (interactive tutorial from U. of Washington)
• How to Do Research
• Research & Writing for High School Students
• Selecting a Research Topic
• Seven Steps of the Research Process
• U.S. History Research Paper: Steps of the Research Process
• Guide to Library Research in Science

Finding Books

• Brief Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification System
• Dewey Decimal System Tour

Periodicals

• Identifying Periodical Types (U. of Maryland)

Searching

• Search Smarter, Search Faster (YouTube video)(matching/searching)
• Boolean Operators (YouTube video)(presentation)
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• Search Strategies Tutorial (video)
• Creating a Search Query Exercise
• Boolean Logic
• Boolean Machine
• Search Strategy Builder (constructs a Boolean search)
• Searching Library Catalogs
• Searching Skills (terminology, the search process, Boolean Logic)
• Databases versus Search Engines: How do they compare as research tools?

Evaluating

• Critical Evaluation of Resources
• Critically Analyzing Information Resources
• Evaluation of Information Sources (tutorial)
• Evaluating Information
• How to Evaluate Journal Articles

Citing Sources

• MLA Bibliographic Citation Style Guide
• Plagiarism
• What is an Annotated Bibliography?
• Writing an Annotation

Internet

• See Search the Internet for Internet Tutorials and searching tips
• Searching the Internet (U. of New Mexico)
• Information Found, and NOT Found, on the Web
• Using Wikipedia (Carlton College)

Forms

• Research Log
• Web Page Evaluation Checklist (U. of California, Berkeley)

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