General Info

Undergraduates can check out materials for two weeks; Graduate students can check out materials for a semester. You can renew online.

You can print out these handouts, or just print this whole guide!

• Library Directory
• Periodicals guide
• Library catalog guide
• Scholarly Journals

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New! The Library is in the beginning stages of testing a new research tool that allows you to search multiple databases and the library catalog together.  

You can use this resource to begin a preliminary search to find keywords, possibly relevant databases, and to get a general idea of what is out there.

Selection and Evaluation of Resources: Selecting materials to use in your paper requires careful evaluation of each item you have collected. Critical thinkers analyze the data they've retrieved. Here are a couple of questions to ask yourself:

 * Have you selected materials published by well respected, mainstream publishers or journals? 
 * OR have you selected unreliable sources such as a blog or websites like Wikipedia? 

Wikipedia may be OK to use for gathering background information but should not be used as a source for your assignment. Anyone can put information on the web but databases contain articles from scholarly journals and other respected publications. The library buys subscriptions to databases and periodicals so you can have trusted information to use for your research rather than unreliable, questionable information you may find on the World Wide Web.