Tutorials

  - an information literacy tutorial

• Choosing a topic-broaden/narrow topic, keyword searching, Boolean operators
• Using the catalog - BearCat
• Choosing a database & finding articles-scholarly/popular, features EBSCO Academic Search Elite and the E-Journal List
• Searching the WWW - advantages/disadvantages, choosing & using search engines, evaluating results
• Considering kinds of information sources
• Citing sources
• Scored quizzes for each module
• Based on Western Michigan University's Searchpath and on TILT from the University of Texas.   Modified with permission.

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Self-help Tutorial
How to access Online Databases through Pipeline

How to Search Databases

Finding Videos/DVDs on the L. W. NIxon Library catalog BearCat

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How to create citations
 

• Citing in EBSCO
• Citing in ProQuest
• Citing in InfoTrac/Gale

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For more information contact the library at jbastin@butlercc.edu or call 316-323-6843 / 316-218-6843