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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1976
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED167134 |
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- Library Research: A Beginning Text in Bibliographic Searching. Gebhard, Patricia Assignments Classification College Libraries Filing Glossaries Higher Education Instructional Materials Library Catalogs Library Collections Library Instruction Library Skills Reference Materials Search Strategies Undergraduate Students This manual is the textbook for a two-unit course for upper division students at a middle-sized university academic research library, the University of California Santa Barbara Library. The book introduces search strategy for finding information for a term paper. After discussing factual information about library collections, classification, card catalogs, and filing, the book presents search strategy to the students, including use of encyclopedias and dictionaries, finding book materials, finding current materials by identifying indexes and abstracts and learning their use, finding and using bibliographies, and evaluating materials located. The accompanying assignments require students to go through this search strategy step by step. In this way, they experience various techniques upon which to base decisions for searching for information in the future. The course is designed to develop the students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills in finding their way through the complexities of the contemporary academic research library or any library they might use in the future. (Author/JD)