Jumpstart: Library Instruction and Research Tips

Defining your information needs

How to get started | What's needed? | How long should research take? | What kind of project is it?

Choosing a topic | Developing a topic | How to tell a journal article from a magazine article | Other strategies for research

What's a primary source? | | Information production

Finding Books

Using InfoLinks to find books | How to tell a book citation from a journal citation | Evaluation of books |What floor is it on? |

Call number order | How to check out materials

Finding Articles

Choosing a database | Finding articles through databases | Search tips | Evaluation of articles | Finding articles using citations |

Call numbers | What floor is it on? | Where is it?

Finding Internet Sources: Searching the Internet |Evaluation of Internet sources

Citing Sources: Style guides and manuals | Which style to use? | Why cite sources?

Other Topics: Copies | Current issues of journals? | What are microfilm and microfiche? | What's Interlibrary Loan/ Illiad/ILL?

Performing Arts and Media (formerly Audiovisual or AV)? | Special Collections? | Government Documents? | Surviving Library Anxiety

| Research metaphors

Please don't eat in Mullins Library | Group Study Rooms |One page quick guide | Top ten things about Mullins Library

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