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Information Literacy Tutorial: F.I.R.S.T.

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• Chapter One: Preparing for Research

  • Introduction
  • Overheard...
  • Choosing the Topic
  • Background reading
  • Keywords
  • Synonyms
  • Review

• Chapter Two: Matching Information Needs with Information Tools

  • Introduction
  • Sitting...
  • Syllabus
  • Currency
  • Coverage
  • Authority
  • Matching Tools
  • Review

• Chapter Three: Searching for Information Using a Computer

  • Introduction
  • Grabbing an ice cream...
  • Computers in libraries
  • Communicating with the computer
  • Search Connectors
  • AND
  • OR
  • AND/OR Together
  • Words not to use
  • Practice
  • Reiview

• Chapter Four: Finding Books Using the Online Catalog

  • Introduction
  • Visiting...
  • Books
  • What is a Catalog?
  • What's in a Catalog
  • Accessing the Catalog
  • First Screen of the Catalog
  • Searching for an author...
  • Searching for an author...
  • Author exercise 1
  • Searching for a title...
  • Searching for a title...
  • Title exercise 1
  • Searching for a keyword...
  • Keyword exercise 1
  • Review

• Chapter Five: Finding Articles in Magazines and Journals

  • Introduction
  • Standing in line...
  • Journals
  • Journals v. Magazines
  • Periodical Databases
  • General and Subject indexes
  • EBSCO Academic Search Elite
  • Searching in EBSCO
  • Interpreting Search Results
  • Getting Fulltext
  • Printing
  • Not in Fulltext?
  • Review

• Chapter Six: Searching for and Evaluating Web Resources

  • Introduction
  • Late Night...
  • Websites
  • Challenges
  • Why search the Web?
  • Web is great
  • Directories
  • Search Engines
  • Evaluating Websites
  • Domains
  • Evaluation Criteria
  • Giudelines
  • Review

• Chapter 7: From Researching to Writing

  • Introduction
  • At a table...
  • From research to writing
  • Plagiarism defined
  • Wrap-up
  • Read
  • Taking notes
  • What is a paraphrasing
  • Paraphrasing to perfection
  • Good/Bad paraphrasing
  • Review

• Chapter Eight: Citing Your Sources

  • Introduction
  • In front of the library
  • Why cite sources?
  • When to cite sources
  • How to cite sources
  • Different citation styles
  • MLA Citation Style
  • MLA Works Cited
  • APA Citation Style
  • APA Reference List
  • Preparing to cite sources
  • Review

Finding Articles in Magazines, Journals and Newspapers: Review

Important points to remember about finding articles:

magazines, journals and newspapers - the sources for articles - are referred to as periodicals
it's important to be able to recognize the differences between popular and scholarly periodicals
you use articles or databases to locate articles by subject
somedatabases contain the full text of articles and some do not
you can use Academic Search Elite to locate articles on a variety of subjects
you can find many articles that are indexed in Academic Search Elite in Ryan, Arrigoni, and Rockland Libraries

On to the quiz!