Got Questions?

Navigating Library Research is a free, self paced course available through your Blackboard account. If you can't quite remember the best way to refine a search or you just want to brush up on your research skills, check out some of the modules in Navigating Library Research.

 Welcome to your library! 

Your research is both challenging and exciting because it bridges different disciplines, vocabularies, databases and cultures of scholarship. 

Your thesis statements cover discipline areas in medicine, education, the environment, anthropology.

Each of you will need to explore the information silos of these other disciplines.  This guide will help you do that. 

You have two librarians to help you in this journey; Linda Tietjen has a subject specialty in Architecture and Lorrie Evans, who has a specialty in the Cognitive Sciences.

This guide is a collaborative resource.  Suggest changes and add comments.  Make use of the user contribution box to add links that others in the class will find useful.

Research is non-linear.  Keep an open mind and explore.

Tips:

• Have a well defined reseach question
• Identify a number of different databases to search.
• Identify keywords and subject terms that are linked in the best articles.
• Find the major authors and journals in your topic area.

Ask for help at any time!