LIB 1000
Research Strategies

Introduction and Orientation

• Orientation to course expectations.

• Information anxiety and information literacy

• Blackboard orientation  

• Overview of Jacobs Library Web Site  http://www.ivcc.edu/library   

• The Value of Information 

Unit One: Topic Selection 

• The organization of Information

• Selecting and refining a topic

• Search vocabulary

• Related, broader, and narrower terms

•  Types of reference books

• Using the reference collection

Unit Two: Finding Books and other materials 

• ILLINET Online and other book catalogs

• Advanced Searches

• Boolean operators

• Electronic Books

• Citation Style

• Copyright and fair use

• Plagiarism    

Unit Three:  Finding Magazine and Journal Articles

• Periodical indexes

• Proquest, IDAL, and Other electronic periodical databases.

• Differences in search vocabularies

• Citations, abstracts, and full-text content

• Citation style—traditional vs. electronic 

• Evaluating Resources   

Unit Four: Using the Internet for Research

• The Internet as a research tool

• Intellectual property

• The Value of Knowledge

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