Here are a few ideas of the kinds of things students ask me in appointments:

• How to access a journal article, book, or other publication that's hard to find.
• Improving on existing searching: where else to look, can't find something you expected to find.
• Not sure where to start and want to talk it through.
• Tips for searching in an unfamiliar discipline.
• Everything about searching for data - where to start, how to know what you're looking at, how long to keep trying, etc.
• Not sure what I've found - is this a publication? Is it credible? Does it count as peer-reviewed?
• How to use Catalyst - I haven't used libraries like this much or at all before.
• I thought there would be lots of research, but I can't find much.
• There is too much and I am not sure how to scope what I choose to read.
• How to use Zotero or EndNote.
• Wonder about resources I haven't found or used before.
• How do I know when I've searched enough?