This guide is designed to:

1) Introduce you to library resources available to you at Carleton.

2) Offer basic strategies for beginning college research.

Remember, Reference & Instruction Librarians are available to help with your A&I and other class assignments! You can make an appointment with a librarian based on department/program here.

• Looking for books and articles from the library? Search Catalyst!
• Use facets on the left-hand side of your results for more options to refine your search.
• Search using just a few important words at a time for best results.

• The best results are those that give you clues about where you might look next (other entries, similar names, and especially "further reading").
• Keep notes about useful words and related concepts that you can use in future searches.
• Search using just a few important words at a time for best results.

Searching works better if you use the terms that the authors are using:

• take notes about related words and concepts
• use those in future searches on Google and in other places

Using what you find:

• Remember to evaluate your sources to see if they are worthy of your attention!
• Found articles but can't get to the full text? There's a tab for that to the left!

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